No Role models For Boys

July 5, 2011 - PRLog -- Role models for girls are plentiful with most women still role-modelling warmth, communication and nurturing to the younger female generation. While female role models such as Elle MacPherson, Barbra Streisand, Hillary Clinton, the late Princess Diana and Madonna all showed masculine attributes like self assertiveness and sexual independence, they also role-modelled the typical female nurturing behaviors. Even the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, had no problem with showing her feminine side in the face of human tragedy or loss. But boys now lack male role-models. Past male role-models included Clarke Gable, James Dean and James Bond who all displayed classic male traits but they also role-modelled manners, courtesy, respect for women and would defend their family or friends if necessary. These role-models have been replaced by Sylvester Stalone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Jean Claude Van Damme playing characters who use violence to solve their problems and cause mindless destruction of other people's property; or wimpy characters like Hugh Grant who role-models more female behaviors than male. Four out of five primary school teachers are now female and more and more boys are being raised by single mothers. A man who role-models a traditional male attribute such as holding a door open for a woman can be accused of being sexist, chauvinist or aggressive.
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