The Megyn Kelly Show
Jordan Peterson on Pathological Masculinity, Alarming Political Gender Gap Among Young Voters, and Snow White | Ep. 1035
Wed, 26 Mar 2025
Megyn Kelly is joined by Jordan Peterson, co-founder of Peterson Academy and author of "We Who Wrestle with God," to discuss the insane leftist policies that drove men and boys away from the Democratic party, how they’re still missing the point even after Trump’s landslide win, how it is "too little too late" for schools and universities to salvage their reputation, the decline of the Ivy League status, how young people are the more politically divided by gender than ever before, how Dems don’t understand why there's this split and still think everything is about abortion, Andrew Tate’s “pathological masculinity" and the wrong messenger to men and boys, why Dems are misguided about what makes Trump popular, what Olivia Wilde got wrong about him in the character based on him in “Don’t Worry Darling,” what Peterson learned about Chris Pine after the movie came out, how Disney dropped the ball on Snow White, challenges young women face in the dating world, the issue with the mentality of “settling,” and more.More from Peterson: https://petersonacademy.com/Herald Group: Learn more at https://GuardYourCard.com Done with Debt: https://www.DoneWithDebt.com & tell them Megyn sent you!FYSI: https://FYSI.com/Megyn or call 800-877-4000 Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow
Chapter 1: Who is today's guest on The Megyn Kelly Show?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. Oh, we've got a treat for you today with a guest who has not been on this show in nearly three years. He's only been here one other time, way back in April of 2021, episode 84. I mean, that's a long time ago. We weren't even on video.
It was just an audio interview by phone. Jordan B. Peterson is a fascinating thinker and a leading intellectual of our time. And there may not be a greater voice over the past decade speaking out about the crisis with men and boys and more. Plus, his home country is about to become our 51st state. So that's exciting. He's Canadian.
Most recently, I mean, he's sold 14 million books in the past couple of years. It's pretty impressive. But most recently, he authored We Who Wrestle With God, Perceptions of the Divine.
And he's also the host of The Daily Wires, the Jordan B. Peterson podcast and founder of Peterson Academy, which I have to tell you, I've spent a fair amount of time nosing around on and clicking on videos and is well worth it. And then I subscribed. I started buying stuff. Don't go there unless you really want to get attached and you have some time to devote to it.
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Chapter 2: What is Peterson Academy and its purpose?
It's really good to see you.
Oh, so yeah, I love Peterson Academy. It's very smart. It's a place for someone to educate themselves. You know, the people who are rejecting possibly going to Brown University in today's day and age can instead go to Peterson Academy and learn lessons that actually really will help them improve their lives. What's the goal of it? Let me just start there. And who's it for?
Well, the goal was to bring university education into the 21st century and more specifically to find the best professors in the world and to bring them to everyone at the lowest possible price. And I'm in a fortunate position because I have interviewed and met thousands of people and I have a very large connection among academics and thinkers in general. and a reasonable reputation among them.
And so if I talk to them about Peterson Academy and invite them to lecture about whatever they would love to lecture about, they're very likely to do that. And we have an extremely efficient team. So we like to joke that we're 10 times the quality at 120th the price. And I actually think that's about right because at the typical large university, regardless of its reputation,
the bulk of the lectures are not top great, top rate. I'd say maybe 10% of them are, and all of ours are top 1%. And so you can learn a tremendous amount. We have a very good social network there too. free of bots and trolls and the sorts of people who make normal social media interaction quite the insanity-provoking ordeal.
And our social media site, The Quad, is very positive and upward-aiming, and people seem to enjoy it a lot.
Well, it's a great idea. I love that you're doing it and really as is typical for your voice in the national conversation, helping people, really helping people.
I've got to kick it off here because what happened was yesterday I went on the Adam Carolla show and he wanted to discuss, I don't think we ever actually got to it, but he wanted to discuss this article he drew my attention to from NBC News dated March 24th. And the headline of the piece is the plight of boys and men once sidelined by Democrats is now a priority.
And the sub headline is in recent months, three democratic governors have announced initiatives geared toward helping boys and men. And when I saw initiatives, my note on the page was, duh, no, right? Like to me, I'll tell you what they're doing and the, but you're the expert.
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Chapter 3: Why are young men shifting away from the Democratic Party?
And conservatives have been asleep, unconscionably asleep, for 60 years while the faculties of education promoted the worst of all possible idiot academic doctrines, whole-word learning, social-emotional learning, self-esteem training, you name it. There's a stupid idea.
Oh, multiple intelligences, practical intelligence, all these complete travesties of psychological theory, all adopted by the faculties of education. The worst students generally become teachers. They have the worst professors. They are awarded for their pathological efforts, 50% of the state budgets, right?
I don't know if you know that figure, but K through 12 education eats up 50% of the state's budgets. And it all goes to teachers who come through the faculties of education because they have a hammerlock on certification, which the Republicans and the conservatives are still not paying any attention to. And so- You're not going to fix that problem.
Well, first of all, the Democrats aren't interested in fixing it at all, because to call them in bed with the teachers unions and the faculties of education is to say almost nothing about how deeply in bed they are. Now, the Democrats know perfectly well that they've lost.
The male vote, and certainly the young male vote, young men are more conservative than any generation has been in the memorable past, in living memory, let's say. And that's going to happen with young women eventually, too, because... Young women lag young men, right? Because young women like men, they're about five years older, four years older on average.
So comparing young men and young women at any given time with regards to their political beliefs isn't reasonable from a psychological perspective. So... Yeah, keep going. Wow, it's terrible. What's being done to young men is terrible. And we're seeing the results of that. Well, that's partly why they're turning so... radically all across the world, by the way.
Young men are becoming more conservative and more religious, interestingly enough.
So the Democrats are paying attention to this now because Trump won, because they ignored this group, more than ignored them. They disparaged them. They demeaned them. They ignored them. They were just completely undermining of any male empowerment whatsoever. To the contrary, they seemed determined to disempower them in every way, to make...
My sons and everyone else's pay some toll for the perceived sins perceived by the left of their great, great grandfathers. And now they're now they're panicked because they like winning elections. Go ahead.
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Chapter 4: What are the criticisms of the current education system?
And we should also point out that the entire progressive enterprise would collapse if young women weren't being propagandized in a massive manner, not only by the universities, but by bad actors at the international level on platforms like TikTok, which what's happening to young women on TikTok is absolutely reprehensible. I've documented that with some of the people I'm working with.
And yeah, it's, and it's been terrible. Well, obviously, you can't demoralize young men without simultaneously terribly affecting young women, because what's harmful to one sex is going to be immediately harmful to the other. And so all this hand-waving on the part of the Democrats, it's too little too late.
And it's also, I'm certain that they don't have the wherewithal to do this properly because virtually everything they've set their foundations on is rotten to the core. As you can tell, everyone knows. That's why, what are the Democrats running at now in terms of popularity in the U.S.? Something like 27%.
With their own party. Their own party is at that level, never mind with net voters. I reached out to a couple of friends of mine who are on the left. And my one friend, or at least formerly of the left, my one friend has a son who is now 16 and who was, like she was, very left, a committed Democrat.
And he's been raised in New York City, surrounded by other Democrats and gone through the school systems there, which are replete with Democrats. And he and many of his friends now are Trump supporting MAGA hat wearing Republicans. And so I asked her after I saw this article in NBC and I knew you were going to come on today.
I said, what, try to explain, you know, in a nutshell, what did it, what, how did he have this dramatic transformation? Because I've known them, you know, I've, I saw him go from this leftist to this MAGA hat wearing kid. And she summed it up by saying, I actually, I pulled it, but she summed it up as follows. She said, um, The main communication between government and young people is education.
If the curriculum is that white voices don't matter anymore, that's alienating to every white boy out there. She said, my son feels that they have blamed straight white men for everything. He is not allowed to read white male authors. There. And it reminded me, Jordan, of a story my one friend told me about his sister, who was a visiting professor at Smith College, where she came in.
They asked her to come be a visiting professor. She was from Yale and she taught English. And she got reported almost immediately to the dean of her group. Why? Not because her syllabus for the students had a bunch of white males on there, but because she had any. Because there was a white male on the syllabus.
Westmore and Ned Lamont and Gretchen Whitmer will never acknowledge any of this, nor, God forbid, say that it's a potential problem.
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Chapter 5: How are universities failing in their mission?
Chris Murphy.
It's been a very long, long day today, full of a lot of bullshit, a lot of threats to
Democracy. Tonight I want to talk about Signalgate and what a colossal fuck-up this is in terms of our national security.
Which could divert people from the number one issue we have against these bastards. Sorry. These people.
So two US, well, three US senators, and one of whom is the minority leader. More and more, you know, off-color words. I'm a big fan of swearing, as my audience knows. It only works if it comes organically to you. This did not seem organic at all. Chuck Schumer seemed uncomfortable actually saying it there. But my own belief, Jordan, is that this is their belief of how to win young men back.
Well, that's a topic well worth delving into, partly because it would also enable us to talk a little bit about what's happening hypothetically on what is hypothetically described as the right. So I guess you might, there's a number of people who have influenced young men in a more conservative direction, and I'm one of them, and Ben Shapiro is another, and Andrew Tate is a third.
And I warned people back in 2016 that if they kept making men weak, that there would be a consequence of that because weak men do very terrible things. They turn, for example, for their models to people like Andrew Tate. Now, the reason I'm bringing that up in relationship to the clips that you showed me is because you put together three clips that
are predicated on the assumption that masculinity has this kind of brisk, pushy, I don't give a damn if I swear on national TV, because I'm so tough, kind of men to it. And it's very easy for weak men to assume that power, is the defining characteristic of a respectable man, like an actually masculine man. And that's what Andrew Tate, at least in part, purports to sell his audience.
So now Andrew Tate is a very bad actor, to say the least. He's a pimp, an electronic pimp. And I think pimps are possibly the lowest form of male life because they are parasitic on women. And that's about as bad as you can get if you're a man. Maybe you can get lower because you could be parasitic on children. But being parasitic on women, that's pretty bad.
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Chapter 6: What societal issues are affecting young women?
Not well, apparently controversial enough so that Disney would rewrite the entire story and spend a quarter of a billion dollars plus 150 billion on marketing to make a dull mess, right? And sink their damn company. And that's, well, that's just an indication, one indication of how absolutely messed up we are. You know, now that movie, I went and saw it.
It could have been a lot worse than it was. You know, they reverted back to the dwarfs and not exactly accurately, but it was still basically a feminist revolutionary screed. And even that could have been interesting, although it wasn't. And the evil queen wasn't particularly evil, but the evil queen that's teaching women right now is particularly evil. And she's already made one quarter of them
She's already knocked one quarter of them off the reproductive pathway. One in four. One in four. And so that's a complete catastrophe. And so, you know, Olivia Wilde, she's you know, you can understand it to some degree. She's trying to figure out, I imagine, how to balance career and public presence with family and more classic femininity, and that's a hard thing to get right.
It isn't clear that we have figured that out exactly. We certainly don't teach young women well, and she's trying to figure out, you know, what the hell, why I'm attractive, and am I the same sort of creature as Andrew Tate, and am I like Trump or the worst of Trump? These are hard things to sort out, but but the way they were sorted out wasn't helpful.
And her movie wasn't successful because it was wrong. Like she didn't get the story right. The real story is a lot more interesting. You know, because one of the mysteries she could have delved into is like, Why the hell are people, young men, letting me tell them stories about the Old Testament? Like, how the hell did that happen?
And why is there a religious revival sweeping across the West in partial consequence? Like, that's a mystery. And you can say, well, that's because Peterson is a power-hungry misogynist. But I'm actually not power-hungry, and I'm not a misogynist. So that's a stupid story. And anybody who listens to me, who actually listens for more than like 10 minutes, figures that out immediately.
So she just didn't... She wasn't guided by curiosity. She was guided by ideological pre-commitment, just like Disney. And that doesn't work when you're telling stories. They're dull.
The... the portrayal of the fake Jordan in that movie was the least of what has happened to you since the last time you were on. Incredibly, it was not that long ago. It was in 2022 that you were suspended from X. This is now unthinkable with Elon in charge, but I do believe there's a purpose to it all. I really do. You were suspended from X due to a post about
about Ellen Page, who now goes by Elliot Page. And now she says she's a he, but she's a she. And you tweeted out during Pride Month, which made it actually controversial. Remember when Pride was a sin and Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician? And you got in trouble. You're suspended from X during that time, which was then Twitter.
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Chapter 7: What is the Michaela School's approach to education?
If you use that language even, the first thing you might ask yourself is, why do you start with such a high opinion of yourself and such a low opinion of the people who are pursuing you? Now, look, I understand that it's necessary to be attracted to a potential partner, you know, and that women have the right and the duty to be picky.
They should find a man who's gonna be not a child and who's gonna be very helpful to them In all ways, particularly when they have children, who's going to be a good father? And so, hooray to women for being picky. But that's not the same thing as starting out narcissistic. You know, we talked about Snow White. Before she could find a prince, she had to learn to be of service to the dwarves.
That's worth thinking about. Now, you might think, well, why should we pay attention to a fairy tale? It's like, well, how about because people remembered it for 15,000 years and that Disney just spent a quarter of a billion dollars trying to retell it and failed. And so and then with regards to the order of affairs in a woman's life.
Look, I calculated recently that even an attractive woman, like radically attractive woman, let's say, who often has her own problems, by the way, because she tends to scare men away, right? A lucky woman has five potential partners in her life. Five. You get five chances. That's it. Now think about this. Let's just think that through, right? Because it's a terrifying way to think.
So imagine that you're primarily looking, say, from the time you're 16 at the lowest end to, say, 30. Because after that, it's starting to get harder because the clock is ticking so desperately. One in three couples at 30 already have fertility problems, by the way, which is defined as difficulty conceiving within a year, even though the attempts are being made.
Okay, so let's say you got 14 years, something like that. Now, how long does it take to find someone and then figure out who they are, especially if they're strangers? Before you're going to decide to marry someone, likely you're going to want to know them for a year, something like that. And so that's five years right there with five people.
But that also assumes that you go from one relationship to another with no intervening space. So you're not suffering too much, for example, when a potentially promising relationship collapses or you don't get sick or something doesn't waylay you in your professional career.
so imagine two years per relationship that's ten years for five that's assuming that people want to be around you so I don't know if you're settling it's I get the picture. You don't want to lie to someone and tell them that you find them attractive in all possible ways when you don't, but maybe you could start the bloody process with a little more humility.
You know, I like the way you started that. What, what shouldn't the goal be to make yourself so attractive in just in heart and soul, not to mention on the outside, that does require some effort that they're lining up, that they're lining up there. And if that's not happening, why, why is it? You know, it's my, my favorite poem. Um, You'll find the fault lies in you, right? Make an examination.
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