![]() “When I was a teenager, girls were just utterly out of my reach. He didn’t fit the ideal mold of masculinity, and despised what women intrinsically found attractive – the alpha male who had a tough exterior and could only be tamed by the right woman – the archetypal story portrayed in most female romances according to the book, I was not very attractive physically, but I didn’t think those things really mattered, it was what’s inside that was important.” “I couldn’t understand why girls liked these cruel, aggressive guys and not me, ’cause I was more kind and sensitive…. The kind of guy teased in high school for being a nerd. Robert Crumb is a scrawny, hunched artist with Coke-bottle glasses. He was the dreamboat, but he was also a bully,” laments the cartoonist in the biographical film Crumb. “There was this guy named Skutch…he was like this mean bully, but he was also very charming and all the girls liked him. But when confronted about his offensive comics, he admitted that he didn’t know if he should be allowed to do them, that maybe he should be locked up, but that he was only doing what was natural to him and hoped that somehow it would be a good thing. He drew a comic of a headless woman being raped. And he was willing to play the long game, first applying to publications that curtailed some of his artistic identity, but gave him the security to create, and the opportunity to develop. ![]() He wasn’t blessed with looks or a superior intellect to his brother Charlie, but he was smart enough and he didn’t give up. He was a hero for having persevered where his brothers couldn’t. He denied ever having raped a woman but openly admitted to sexually abusing several. He was admitted to a mental hospital for a couple of weeks. He would sit on a bed of nails for hours a day and recounted a story of how he couldn’t repress his compulsive urge to pull down a woman’s pants in a subway. Max, Robert’s younger brother, was a street beggar in San Francisco. His life followed a tragic path – where he lived with his mother, attempted suicide (drank shoe polish) and failed multiple times, and it seemed like he did nothing but read and re-read old classics.Ī year after the documentary was filmed, Charles killed himself. ![]() Eventually, it turned into a semi-intelligible written document and finally – into incoherent scribbles. He was a rebellious teenager and was bold and creative.Īnd then the text to image ratio rapidly increased until there was nothing but text. Even Robert admits that he was the most talented and that he would always wonder if his older brother would approve of his work.īut Charles failed to integrate successfully into society. And it’s good he’s not with another woman, he’d only make her miserable.” That’s the negative aspect of the feminine – that Peterson repeatedly talks about.Ĭharles was a voracious reader, and highly intelligent. His mother didn’t speak much but one of her sentences revealed what kind of woman she was “I’m just happy Charles isn’t taking or selling any illegal drugs. Robert’s brother, Charles, was a middle-aged man who lived at home with his mother. But between the lines was a deep pathology. In Crumb, we learn about Robert’s childhood, what inspired him, and how he rose to fame. He had two sisters – who declined to be interviewed for the film, and two brothers – who were interviewed (Charles and Max). He created famous counterculture icons such as Fritz the Cat and Mr. He founded the Zap Comix publication and contributed to the East Village Other publication – and others. It would be impossible to understand the atrocities of human history, and the reality of human nature, without learning about people who manifested evil – and paying attention to how they thought.Ĭrumb is a documentary about a comic book artist called Robert Crumb who led the underground Comix movement in the 1960’s. After-all, they are a part of me and are a part of all of us. But with time, I started to understand that the dark parts of human nature weren’t things I could ignore. But his sales pitch was too good to ignore.Įxploring the dark side of humanity, something Peterson often discusses, didn’t interest me at first. And that’s only one of the many things this documentary has to offer.” He also said that it was “the best documentary ever made, certainly the best I’ve seen.”īefore listening to Peterson’s lectures, I wasn’t particularly interested in how serial rapists thought or felt. One of the lines Peterson said was, “If you really want to know how a serial rapist/sex offender thinks, like really know how they think, if you watch Crumb and pay attention, you’ll know. I made note of it and finally came around to watching it a couple of days ago. “Crumb” was a documentary that was recommended by Jordan Peterson in many of his lectures. ![]()
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