And cortisone injections hurt like a mofo for ages . I don ' t care how tough you think you are , you ' re not just brushing one of those babies off nonchalantly . <| sep |> Don ' t know if it ' s factually correct . But seems to make sense . <| sep |> It ' s easy to say because it is a ridiculous strawman , and that doesn ' t justify its use . A stereotype is a preconceived notion of a person , so SJW is just broad enough to pretty much include anyone you ideologically disagree with . It ' s a garbage term that should be dispensed with . It ' s intellectually dishonest , its toxic , hopelessly unspecific , teetering on misogynistic , not to mention its veiled attack on political mobilization . Misogynistic ? Really ? If identity is a social construct that is not decided by the individual then that is motivation for the people that Peterson refuses to acknowledge to push back against his nonacknowledgement . This is actually a decent point , and I can ' t deny them this . The problem is the amount of clout that socalled political correctness advocates wield witness U of T instituting mandatory antibias training at the behest of the Black Liberation Collective , which Peterson has discussed , how quick they are to condemn their opponents as bigots and attempt to silence them , how many other wellintentioned people go along with them because bigots are bad ! shame ! shame ! , and most of all , how many people stay silent , because they don ' t want to be the next person denounced because if you say that Peterson might have a point , then you must be a bigot yourself . If this is a metaphor , it is a hopelessly inaccurate generalization . The discussion began because Peterson refuses to acknowledge the way in which transpeople can come to identify other than what they ' re physical sex might portray . As a faculty member , he would have had to read and familiarize himself with already wellworn university policy regarding the Human Rights Code , regarding sexual and gender identity , regarding any many over things that accord accommodation to students . There ' s no shifting of the earth below his feet to the extent that when he looks up from his notes , his students are suddenly in the moment requesting a different pronoun . He knew what he was getting into and decided to brooch the topic anyway . First , I don ' t think Peterson refuses to acknowledge the way in which trans people can come to identify other than what their physical sex might portray . This isn ' t about trans people . Peterson doesn ' t reject trans identities . This is specifically about genderneutral pronouns and people who insist that they are neither a he nor a she , and that people who refer to them in gendered terms are misgendering them . Second , it ' s good that he decided to broach the topic . We can ' t get to a situation where people wonder if they should speak at all or not because oh shit , this is a politically incorrect thing to say , this might start a firestorm . There was no good reason for it to start a firestorm except that the political correctness thing is , as Peterson says , bubbling just under the surface . Third , it was not a metaphor . It is an accurate description of certain individuals . fluidbraceletIf the conservative view seeks a restriction on the acknowledgment of gender identity , and this view is stalwart in the face of evidence , that ' s pretty close to a definition of bigotry . I don ' t think it ' s accurate to characterize the freedom of individuals not to participate in this gender liberation shit as a restriction . My 95 year old grandfather does not deserve to be denounced as a bigot because he won ' t learn new pronouns . Your freedoms do not require any positive actions on the part of others . This is wrongheaded on two fronts . Firstly , because not every transperson will physically look like the gender they wish to identityand from not fault of there own . That ' s just a simple fact of being a transperson . This isn ' t about what clothes they ' re wearing , they physically have the characteristics we associate with male appearance , even if this theme doesn ' t extent to their gender identity . And secondly , Peterson is not misgendering out of mistake . He ' s doing it intentionally because he attaches it to a form of political correctness he detests . If this was simply a case of accidental misgendering , no one would care . But that ' s not what ' s happening here . I didn ' t mean to imply that the misgendering would happen out of mistake . To paraphrase Peterson , I think the most you can hope for is that people treat you as the part that you appear to be playing .