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HELEN LEWIS: On slaying Jordan Peterson + declining Andrew Tate

Wild with Sarah Wilson

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Is There a Difference Between the Vice Documentary and the Jordan Peterson Piece for GQ?

I think that the debate, the number of people in this space, and the sheer reach that these people, the algorithms, the algorithmic damage is that much worse today. That's what I liked about that vice documentary, because they juxtaposed very effectively a very tabloidy kind of like, look inside the compound. But woven through that was the testimony of the women who had felt the brunt of what this male power fantasy really looks like. And actually, fusing the two of them together, I thought was really innovative and good because it's not just giving him a platform. It's presenting him as an entity and showing you the consequences of all of it.

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