Director of the film, Olivia Wilde said in an interview
Terrifying. We based that character on this insane man, Jordan Peterson, who is this pseudo-intellectual hero to the incel community. You know the incels?
They’re basically disenfranchised, mostly white men, who believe they are entitled to sex from women.
And they believe that society has now robbed them—that the idea of feminism is working against nature, and that we must be put back into the correct place.
This guy Jordan Peterson is someone that legitimizes certain aspects of their movement because he’s a former professor, he’s an author, he wears a suit, so they feel like this is a real philosophy that should be taken seriously.
Judging by how chuds interpreted Verhoven’s intentional and declared satire of Heinlein’s space fascism book in his Starship Troopers movie, I expect chuds to take this film and say “based” to each and every line said by Chris Pine’s version of Dr. Professor Lobster that gets screen time anyway.
only as long as the film either does a southparky both sides thing or pulls its punches in portraying peterson as the total and complete loser dork that he is. chuds need either the “they hate everyone equally” cope or need to be able to glorify the reactionaries. if neither is possible, their usual fragility kicks in and they have a meltdown where they yell into the camera for seven hours.
edited for clarity
