Jack Peterson (spokesperson)

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Jack Peterson
Jack Peterson, May 2018.jpg
Peterson, 2018
Born
Kalerthon Demetro

(1998-11-08) November 8, 1998 (age 23)
Chicago, Illinois, United States
NationalityAmerican
OccupationSpokesperson

Jack Peterson is an American filmmaker and spokesman for the Incel community.

Biography[]

Peterson's birth name is Kalerthon Demetro.[1] He was born in Chicago in 1998.[2]

Despite claiming to be incel, Peterson has stated that he has had a girlfriend in the past, yet claims it was not a productive relationship.[1] By Peterson's own admission he hacked his girlfriend's emails, distributed revenge porn of her, and was attacked by her after traveling to her city of residence unannounced and repeatedly attempting to contact her.[3]

Peterson first stumbled upon the manosphere at the age of 11 on 4chan.[1] A psychiatrist has diagnosed him as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, but this has been disputed by other doctors.[1]

Peterson directed an experimental film, Sawgrass, which was released in 2019.[4][5][6][7][8] After finishing the screenplay for Sawgrass, he was given career advice and motivation to complete the film from Bob Odenkirk and Ken Levine.[7] Eric Paddock, the brother of the Las Vegas shooter, was befriended by Peterson and interviewed in Sawgrass.[7][6][8][4] Aaron Fechter, the creator of The Rock-afire Explosion, also made an appearance in the film.[7][6][4]

Peterson was reported missing in December 2019, but was quickly located.[9]

Activism[]

Peterson is a former staff member and chat room administrator of Incels.me, which is the largest incel website on the internet,[10] a site which he describes as more honest than other incel forums.[11]

He previously ran the "Incelcast", wherein he interviewed incels and discussed how they came to their position.[12] His podcast also discussed the hikikomori phenomenon in Japan and the likelihood of the same thing happening in the Western world.[1]

He has been the subject of television and phone interviews with the media to discuss incel topics.[13][14][15][16] Peterson was the only incel to be featured on Canadian national television in the aftermath of the Toronto terrorist van attack.[1]

He believes that involuntary celibacy is a social phenomenon rather than a movement and has described online communities as support groups for discussing depression and loneliness.[17] Peterson describes incels as commonly being males in their late teens who are shy.[12]

Peterson has compared the demonization of inceldom to the generalizations and subsequent xenophobic and Islamophobic sentiments faced by Muslims in the aftermath of Islamist violence.[1]

In May 2018, Peterson announced on his YouTube channel that he left the incel community voluntarily by requesting a permanent ban on the forum "Incels.me".[18][19][20][21] He appeared on Invisibilia in April 2019 claiming he was not actually ideologically reformed, but was attempting to outwardly change in whatever way he could to "make my life not horrible". Peterson still displays images of himself with popular Men's Rights Activists.[3]

Peterson made an appearance on ABC News Nightline in August 2019, discussing his departure from the incel community.[22]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Stadtmiller, Mandy (29 April 2018). "Sympathy for the 'Incel'". The Daily Beast.
  2. ^ Peterson, Jack (May 2017). "Jack Peterson on Twitter". Twitter. Archived from the original on 2019-02-17.
  3. ^ a b Rosin, Hanna (15 April 2019). "The End of Empathy". Invisibilia.
  4. ^ a b c "Sawgrass (2019)". IMDb. 2019.
  5. ^ "Sawgrass (2019) Release Info". IMDb. 2019.
  6. ^ a b c "Sawgrass - Review". Reel Romp. Archived from the original on 2019-10-12.
  7. ^ a b c d "Making A Feature Film Doesn't Have To Be Intimidating. Conceptualize It As Making Several Shorts by SAWGRASS Filmmaker Jack Peterson". Film Courage. Archived from the original on 2019-10-10.
  8. ^ a b "Episode 44: Sawgrass and Dance". Indie Film Review. 2019.
  9. ^ "Man, 21, missing from Montclare located". Fox 32. 1 December 2019.
  10. ^ Wilson, Jason (2018-04-25). "Toronto van attack: Facebook post may link suspect to misogynist 'incel' subculture". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  11. ^ Yang, Jennifer; Gillis, Wendy (April 29, 2018). "Shadowy online subculture in spotlight after Toronto van attack". The Hamilton Spectator.
  12. ^ a b "'There's a lot of truth in this': Incel spokesperson defends movement praised by Alek Minassian". Globalnews.ca.
  13. ^ Yang, Jennifer; Gillis, Wendy (April 28, 2018). "Shadowy online subculture in spotlight after Toronto van attack". The Star.
  14. ^ Silverman, Anna (11 May 2018). "Inside The Murky World Of The Male Celibates". Grazia.
  15. ^ Wilcomes, Justin (27 Apr 2018). "An Inceler speaks to the media". The Shift with Drex.
  16. ^ Valenti, Jessica (25 Jul 2018). "What Feminists Can Do For Boys". The New York Times.
  17. ^ Mountford, J. B. "Topic Modeling The Red Pill." Social Sciences 7.3 (2018): 42.
  18. ^ Peterson, Jack (May 5, 2018). Why I'm Leaving Incels. YouTube.
  19. ^ Griffin, Jonathan (12 May 2018). "BBC Trending: Inside the Dark World of 'incels'". BBC.
  20. ^ Jeltsen, Melissa (7 Jun 2018). "The Unmaking Of An Incel". HuffPost.
  21. ^ Ling, Justin (18 Jun 2018). "'Not as ironic as I imagined': the incels spokesman on why he is renouncing them". The Guardian.
  22. ^ "Former member of 'Incel' community speaks out about dangerous misogyny". ABC News.

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