Peterson loves women who conform to his idea of what and how women should be. Anyone else is a problem who ought to stop complaining about the world and go have some more babies. Peterson often leaves huge swaths of data or information out of the equation if it doesn't support his theory. Further using "enforced monogamy" as an example, Peterson equates polygamy (one man with several wives) with polyamory (people who have intimate connections of various types with more than one person at a time) even though those two things are fundamentally different. For one thing, in polyamory, women have multiple partners as well, so no, no longer having socially enforced monogamy would not lead to a few men with harems and social instability.
Peterson also conflates dominance hierarchies with other types of hierarchies -another pseudo intellectual misstep. He equates dominance hierarchies with merit, even though they are about the maintenance of traditional power via force or coercion - not merit.
Telling men that they simply need to do a better job of competing in a dominance based hierarchy is misandric because they are such highly destructive and toxic systems. Besides being the root of all of our social ills (racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, bullying) patriarchy, which is at it's root a dominance based hierarchy, is literally killing men in a variety of ways.
Young men’s mental health is in a worrisome state. Their bravado masks deep insecurities, depression, and frequent thoughts of suicide. Men in the Man Box in the US and UK are statistically significantly more likely to meet a screening standard for depression than men outside the Man Box. Furthermore, all young men’s rates of suicidal ideation are troubling, with particularly high rates among men in the Man Box.
Social stratification and massive wealth disparity, as well as gender power differentials are a relatively recent human development. Prior to a few thousand years ago, enforced egalitarianism was the survival strategy that our ancestors used to survive.
And yes, although it would be difficult in the modern age to not have some sorts of hierarchies, they are not strictly speaking necessary. For most of human history, enforced egalitarianism was a primary survival strategy — one that modern forager bands still use today. There is also ample evidence that even once we got out of the hunter/gatherer stage of history of large cities that lasted for thousands of years that had no significant hierarchies at all. In many Native American cultures, chiefs had no right to make laws or pass judgements or to compel anyone to do anything that they hadn't already agreed to do. Read "The Dawn of Everything" for more about this.
Peterson is a pseudo-intellectual because he often doesn't actually know what he's talking about - he's just spouting off a theory that "feels" good and sounds smart because he uses big words to describe it.
