Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion

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Do you have any links showing how this is a standard term in psychology? I can't find one.

Actually the term is enforced monogamy, but googling is literally all articles about Jordan Peterson. Most of them clarify the definition, including one from his website.

If you use Google scholar.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en...orced+mono

You get a better idea of it. I'm not a pychology expert or anything, but I had heard the term before and also common sense tells me that someone is not talking about state sponsored rape.

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The problem is what he means by forced/enforced. If this is a standard term used in psychology or some other field, then I'll happily drop my objection and reconsider the whole situation. If however this is Peterson making up his own jargon, then it's woefully ambiguous, and I would say misleading. If you asked 100 people on the street what "enforced monogamy" meant, I would expect at least 99 to come up with something far more gruesome than "our kind of society, the one we already live in, where monogamy is encouraged".

It shows what a pointless point it is, that he thinks the solution is for things to stay the same.

(Edit: sure, some other societies are not like this, and maybe he's just talking about those)

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PS: why is this only viewed from a male position, anyway? If women could have as many husbands as they wanted to match up with the men in (whatever country), then surely that's just as fair as monogamy.

That's not what he's talking about anyway though, because he's talking about what society encourages, not enforces. So it can't be marriage. It must be relationships in general.

I'm guessing that he probably doesn't want things to stay the same, but rather go backwards. Like in the past we had more cultural pressure towards monogamy than today, although I'd definitely say we still live in a monogamous culture, altogether.

Although I'm not sure that any of that is going to solve the problem of incels. That seems like more of a personal problem to me, I'd imagine that most cultures have them.

Of course, if you get enough incels it is a very serious problem. Look at the middle east. Polygamy causes serious problems in every culture.