Groundhog Day 2011
Checking for squirrels
"Maybe they're hiding?"
"I'm sure I saw some this way."
"All clear!"
Why Jordan Peterson Lost That Bout to Cathy Newman
It should have been a great victory.
There he was, holding his own against a ferocious assault by a committed feminist.
“So you’re saying,” she would attack.
“No, I’m not,” he would calmly respond. “I’m not saying that at all!”
Over and over and over again, to the delight of his fans and the horror of her followers. Would this male chauvinist pig never crack?!
She tried every move she had against him, and nothing could get through.
It was a woman’s worst nightmare, a man she could not ruffle.
You can hear it in her voice as the interview proceeds.
Her voice gets shriller and shriller, her questions more pointed, her mouth harder, her smile colder.
And then a moment comes. She has challenged him about his refusal to use the newly-invented pronouns now mandated for use in Canada by the passage of Bill C16.
She attacks: “Why should your right to freedom of speech trump a transperson’s right not to be offended?”
He parries: “Because in order to be able to think you have to risk being offe…
There he was, holding his own against a ferocious assault by a committed feminist.
“So you’re saying,” she would attack.
“No, I’m not,” he would calmly respond. “I’m not saying that at all!”
Over and over and over again, to the delight of his fans and the horror of her followers. Would this male chauvinist pig never crack?!
She tried every move she had against him, and nothing could get through.
It was a woman’s worst nightmare, a man she could not ruffle.
You can hear it in her voice as the interview proceeds.
Her voice gets shriller and shriller, her questions more pointed, her mouth harder, her smile colder.
And then a moment comes. She has challenged him about his refusal to use the newly-invented pronouns now mandated for use in Canada by the passage of Bill C16.
She attacks: “Why should your right to freedom of speech trump a transperson’s right not to be offended?”
He parries: “Because in order to be able to think you have to risk being offe…
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