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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Do women generally have the same impact as men when acting as role models to boys and young men? Is the impact the same on girls and young women?
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I tend to believe so, but only based on my own experience. I don't think of any of the role models I've had as being particularly formative of my role as a woman. In fact, there is nothing (other than having a vagina) that I feel I have passed on to my own female children that is based strictly on the idea of 'this is an example of what it means to be a good woman.' Anything that I've done or that the people I have respected most in my life have done, whether I've met them or not, are to model characteristics that any man or woman could exhibit.
That's not to say that there aren't differences between men and women that shouldn't be enjoyed and reveled in...there are obvious physical differences. But those differences have no impact on my own conception of what is essentially a behavioral concept - being a role model.
This could be my own quirk though, and could explain a few things about some of my idiosyncracies.
