Who Are Boys’ Role Models Today?
Boys look to online influencers and the people in their life for models of masculinity. Youth service workers can be a positive influence.
I've been studying the men's movement essentially my entire adult life, beginning with the 90's period of Robert Bly & Iron John, Sam Keen etc, alongside the Jungian women's counterpart, Clarissa Pinkola Estes.
While these books may now be dated, what they taught me now seems to be valuable again: because men protect the underprivileged, men protect the environment and keep a balance with what they take, because men listen.
Instead I see a lot of spoiled and entitled boy psychology running things, the Peterson's and the Tates who grift their way