The guardian on Joe Rogan's popularity in Aus, and some peoples' reasons for listening. (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 6 days ago by NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org to c/australia@aussie.zone

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I thought this article was interesting, in that I am immediately suspicious of the motives of some of people quoted. The conclusion runs counter to what I want to be true, and I'm curious what other people make of it.

Also men: Do you actually feel attacked? I'm not sure I've ever seen someone criticised for like being strong and capable, or a good carpenter, or a protective dad or whatever. Is this a real thing? or just something that is used as cover like the traditional values vs violent misogyny terminology.

P.S. Thinking there are hordes of ravenous cancellers waiting in the wings is extremely funny to me. Not exactly beating the allegations that listening to Jo Rogan damages your perception of reality.

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[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 1 points 6 days ago

I've listened somewhere between 500 to 1000 episodes from him. I wouldn't exactly call myself a fan but it's just one of the shows I've subscribed to on my podcast app and when ever he has a quest on who sounds interesting I download the episode and listen to it while working. I don't agree with him on everything but that applies to all the other podcasters I listen to as well. Joe has his flaws but generally I find him smart, nice, honest and a reasonable person. If one bases their opinion about him on the articles and YouTube clips of him then I can't really blame them for having a skewed perspective but personally, as someone who has listened thru the entire 3 hour episode and knows the full context, I'm not very convinced by most of the accusations made of him. One simply couldn't hide their "true personality" while putting out tens of thousands if hours of unscripted discussions online. I feel pretty confident in saying that I know Joe about as well as you can know someone without ever having met them.