Men who don't go around wondering what it means to be a man.
Not a jab at you, Baraka.
I take exception with the idea that the women's movement has anything to do with where men are at these days, rather, they are themselves trapped in the same mire as women have been since the industrial age of trying to live up to a certain packaged ideal of what it means to be a member of their gender in a society that makes their roles kind of nebulous and gives them too much free time to think about it. I don't know about any other woman on this board, but I'm not willing to go back to the age depicted in
this thread just so men can feel more sure of their manhood.
I don't think male (or female) role models have to be perfect humans, but I do think the healthiest ones (for this day and age) don't think of themselves primarily as men or women. Therefore, it is my belief that women could just as easily be good role models for young men as men could be.