[Django]-ManyRelatedManager not Iterable. Think I'm trying to pull my objects out incorrectly

Assuming from the error that eventList is a many-to-many field, you need to use .all() to get the related objects. A many-to-many field is a manager, so you can use it to construct querysets that return the actual objects.

user = request.user.get_profile()
eL = user.eventList.all()