TORONTO – Controversial U of T psychology professor Jordan Peterson once again ignited a public furor last night, refusing to refer to a popular Stephen King-based horror film by the gender-neutral pronoun “IT”, on the grounds that the titular character, Pennywise the clown, is obviously a “HIM.”
According to eyewitnesses, Peterson spent 12 minutes holding up the box office line at Toronto’s Varsity Cinema while he repeatedly requested VIP room tickets for “HIM”, to the confusion of numerous employees.
“I was called over to the box office because this guy wouldn’t stop going like, ‘I’m here for HIM, I want to see HIM,’” recalled assistant manager Toby Duncan. “When I eventually clued in and asked if he meant ‘IT’, he said he most certainly did NOT mean ‘IT’ and called me a radical postmodernist ideologue trying to punish him for not using the clown’s ‘compelled pronoun.’ “
Having gained international attention last year for his outspoken refusal to call students and faculty by gender-neutral pronouns, Peterson made it clear that Pennywise – a demonic embodiment of children’s fears – would also receive no quarter.
“The objective biological reality is, Pennywise is a male monster, who is mostly a clown and sometimes a bug, but always a boy,” he explained to fellow moviegoers in the lobby. “I cannot be coerced into respecting his place in this ever-expanding community of the marginalized by calling the film ‘IT’. I will not use that clown-bug’s words.”
“And if I’m taken to jail for that, which I can only assume I’m about to be, then so be it,” he boldly declared, though by all accounts he was free to go.
"Mommy, there are mean people using satire to belittle my infallible father archetype."
"Awww. It's okay, sweetie. Ignore them. Clutch your bible and rest your head on my lap, snuggle-muffin, and try to extricate the Logos from the primal warmth of mommy's maternal womb again."
Jaxon Murphy
Peterson watching IT: "It's like, NO, you're delusional if you presuppose a strong likelihood of escaping this sewer alive. And it is by no means obvious that you will be able to do so. You have to sort yourself out first or you'll be even tastier to the clown. No bloody joke, man"
Adrian Parker
I actually like Peterson for the most part but this is still funny.
Kevin Campbell
ITT we make fun of people who don't exist outside our imaginations
Austin Nguyen
What thread are you guys reading?
Elijah Fisher
Yeah pretty much everyone who read it realized it was a joke and found it at least vaguely amusing
Jeremiah Baker
Some people on Veeky Forums are really mad that a guy who shits on Derrida is popular
Tyler Gomez
Harold BLoom tried to save the canon from the "school of resentment", but this guy wants to go a step further and save the Logos. We should appreciate him.
Jaxon Watson
Also he has a talk with Camille Paglia that'll drop within the next week so get ready
Wyatt Carter
The creature that use the Clown as a character and "he" is a "she". Basically is a Transexual. King is reallly into LGBTP.
Asher Thomas
Not gonna ask what the P stands for.
Charles Ward
I like Peterson but this is pretty funny.
Luis Sanchez
I hate Peterson but the joke is lame.
Eli Johnson
that'll be a weird dynamic but fuck dude I'm ready. Although they both don't know when to shut the fuck up sometimes.
Tyler Hall
Petersonsexual
Aiden Gutierrez
Pedo.
Daniel Cox
That's why I didn't ask.
Brandon Moore
>I like Peterson but this is pretty funny. British
>I hate Peterson but the joke is lame. American
Connor Murphy
Thanks for admitting that Americans are superior.
Bentley Adams
Brilliant! Good! I mean, it's just bloody amazing! Most people will not do this but if you can stop to really look at that post and it will TAKE YOUR BREATH away. I mean it's SPOT on. Just bloody amazing.
Henry Hall
I haven't heard of Derrida since my university years, friend. That being said, he already has a much bigger impact on academia (for better or worse) than Peterson will ever have. In the age of information superhighways, people like him are the equivalent of "flavour of the month" games on /v/.
Xavier Kelly
Sadly this is true, but Peterson is still making a decent amount of money that I'm confident he'll put to good use.
Hunter Stewart
Derrida was a singular destructive force, while Peterson is one piece in an ever-expanding reconstructive puzzle.
Joseph Ross
>reconstructive *reactionary, and it's hardly a "puzzle".
Grayson Harris
On the contrary, Derrida was as reactionary as they come, while Peterson is simply interested in restoring ancient wisdom, a perfectly generative process, and he and similar figures indeed offer something like a puzzle, though a very amorphous one.
Henry Davis
His Patreon was at something like 62k a month last I checked. Lucky bastard.
Although from his body language I kind of suspect he has depression, which I don't suppose you can fix with money.
I would bang his daughter. This vid looks about 15 years old tho, so she's prolly lost that slight attractiveness.
Angel Green
And that's terrifying, why is mystic psychologist getting such a wide audience? I mean it's bloody impossible to have a dialogue about post-modernism without someone shutting you down by shouting about Jungian archetypes. That's not a path you want to go down, as an individual or as a society, just look at what's happening with people carrying Paypay signs and screaming memes in real life, it's leading down a very dark road, and the scary thing is that's what they want! Sort yourself oot.
Owen Gonzalez
>this guy who has been teaching at top universities for decades and has over a hundred published papers is a flavour of the month
But these memes, what people are getting so carried away with, I mean they don't REALIZE these things run deep! I mean BLOODY deep! There's a REASON why these internet memes are spreading so quickly, and it's because we're taking the esoteric content of these stories, which are embedded not only in our culture but in our BIOLOGY, I mean they're in our BLOOD, and we're making them explicit! I mean it's unprecedented, it's no WONDER it's getting people's attention. It's INCREDIBLE!
Ryan Perez
It's Derrida, innit.
Ian Edwards
>Derrida Are you referring to the poor leftards Heidegger who they had to conjure up since they could not suck the teutonic genius' cock?
