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Why is this an issue? Aren't good role models good role models regardless of gender/sex?
by paulcole 5y ago
Why is this an issue? Aren't good role models good role models regardless of gender/sex?
- jaywalk 5y agoA woman simply cannot be a role model in all of the same ways as a man, and vice-versa. This belief that men and women are the same and contribute in exactly the same ways is a big part of the problem that this article discusses.
- paulcole 5y agoThe opinion article you mean, right? I agree that a woman can't be a role model in the same ways as a man, but I believe this is not necessarily a bad thing.
- valdiorn 5y agoIt isn't, in fact it's great that we have different kinds of role models. The problem being discussed is that some people lack certain types of roles models (i.e. male ones)
- wolverine876 5y agoIt's an assured-sounding statement, but what is it based on? I have role models that aren't my gender; it makes no difference to me.
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoI recommend the book 'Families and how to survive them' which covers human developmental psychology and has detailed sections on gendered role models. It may push a few woke buttons, but doesn't everything?
- wolverine876 5y agoApparently your buttons were pushed, and you felt you had to inflame the conversation and degrade people with different opinions.
- mistrial9 5y agosome Depth Psychology (Jungian) suggests that the primal biological child is female. Development of a male starts similarly to the female, but must take steps over the growth phases, to differentiate. Historically males are very, very useful for successful survival and reproduction, but times have changed for WEIRD and others.. Meanwhile, cultural ritual was replaced by commercial "neutral" offerings that lessen differences in tribal/cultural groups, and therefore also remove or smooth out important development goal posts for young men. source: student of Depth Psychology
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoI don't know anything about this, but I noticed it's being voted down to oblivion, without a single comment explaining why? Could anyone elucidate?
- Jtsummers 5y agoPeople are emotional creatures, not rational ones. Like it or not, there is an outsized influence on (especially) young people when they do or do not see people "like them" (gender, ethnicity, immigration status, nation of origin, etc.) in various roles. And this is also exaggerated by society. If a boy is in a community where it's "common knowledge" that men are stupid, deadbeat, bums, then no one will be surprised if he acts in a way that indicates he's heading in the same direction. No one will intervene on his behalf, and he will (statistically, not universally) act in a way that conforms to those expectations.
- humanrebar 5y agoSome men are relatively emotionless, and there's nothing particularly bad about it, but it can be difficult to find healthy role models who are wired the same way.