Jordan Peterson and Dave Rubin: Gender Pronouns and the Free Speech War

Jordan Peterson (Professor of Psychology University of Toronto) joins Dave Rubin to discuss the gender pronoun controversy he has found himself in, political correctness, free speech, and more.

Reference links for Professor Peterson
Jordan Peterson
Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto
Jordan on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPe...
Jordan on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson

There will be a live broadcast this morning at 9:30am EST furthering his debate of Canadian and University policies and rules that are attacking free speech.
http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20161119-FAS/index.htm

The link in the original post will start at the 6:30 min mark - where this interview starts. Dave Rubin has an intro to this interview that isn’t necessary to watch.

The Free Speech Debate today at 9:30am EST will also be on Prof Peterson’s youtube page.
https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos/featured

English has three subjective singular third person pronouns.

He, She, and It.

Choose one.

If you make up a different one, don’t be s’prised if we just ignore it.

http://www.census.gov/population/age/about/

“Distinction between the concepts of gender and sex”

“In general discussions, the concept of gender is often confused with the concept of sex, and the terms are used interchangeably. The meanings of these two concepts are not the same: sex is based on the biological attributes of men and women (chromosomes, anatomy, hormones), while gender is a social construction whereby a society or culture assigns certain tendencies or behaviors the labels of masculine or feminine. These assignments may differ across cultures and among people within a culture, and even across time. Gender may or may not correspond directly to sex—depending on the society or culture or period. That means, for example, that people may associate themselves with femininity (as defined by their culture) while being biologically male. At the Census Bureau, the sex question wording very specifically intends to capture a person’s biological sex and not gender. Ambiguity of these two concepts interferes with accurately and consistently measuring what we intend to measure—the sex composition of the population.”

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Even the most anti-science, anti-reality White House in our history still admits that sex is biological and not defined by self-image. My position is that the same is true for pronouns. I use pronouns based on sex. Whatever Bruce Jenner and other confused individuals call themselves, I will only use the pronouns appropriate for their DNA.

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