Are there any "good" male role models? Sure. But good luck finding them.
Much of the problem of finding good role models of either sex lies in today's tabloid media. Sex sells, scandal sells, failure sells. And heroes sell. So a sex scandal about a failing hero sells best of all.
If we were to look at what would have been role models to earlier generations in the same light to which we subject our current public figures, they would likely fail just as today's models do.
What we need to do is tell our kids to look beyond the dirt of publicity about their heroes and try to focus on the accomplishments/admirable qualities. I think Tiger Woods has some serious moral issues to deal with... but he's a helluva golfer. I have no problem telling my kids to be as good a golfer as he is, and a better MAN (person?).
Personally, as so many have pointed out here, my goal for myself is to be not as good a man as my father was, but as good a man as my father WANTED ME to be. THAT is my role model.
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