Anything quite good, in fact, one begins to suspect, is somehow vaguely male in Peterson’s book, but if you want an explanation of why exactly or who gets to decide, you’re immediately rebuffed by the preemptive deflection: it’s symbolic, okay? So what is symbolically female, you might ask? Chaos, Peterson claims, is associated with the feminine.60 Thanks for that, Jordan. (Peterson defines chaos as “all those things and situations we neither know nor understand,” so you can see why, for him personally, that might be quite a good description of women.)