Hmmm...do you have to acknowledge a role model for them to be a role model? Because I don't, but there are various people I'd say I respect and/or admire to varying extents, and I might consider them role models without realising it.
First response, first truth. The closest I've got is my mother, but she's not a "role model" in anything except the literal sense of "she taught me everything I know for better or worse"inu-kun said:I don't have any role models, male or female, so I can't say.
This. As a kid, I never understood hero worship. No one ever seemed cool or accomplished enough that I'd want to structure my own personality to reflect theirs, and in my opinion, no one should.Saetha said:Female, and no role models period. Never seen the point, which is why I always roll my eyes at every "Who's YOUR role model?" or "Kids need a good role model to look up to!" It seems so mindless. Screw patterning yourself after others! Be your own damn person!
Agreed completely. I've never understood the apparent hostility to or rejection of the idea of greatly admiring individuals in various fields. For anyone remotely sensible, 'role models' (which I do think's an iffy term, btw) are not a replacement for an identity, nor are they to be viewed as flawless - quite the opposite, in fact, as being inspired by someone is as much about their own faults and failings as it is about their virtues.Ebola_chan said:There's nothing wrong with admiring someone for having good qualities. I don't get why so many people equate 'looking up to someone' to 'stomping out one's identity to better resemble said person'. Though I guess the word model is a bit misleading. But the reality is you can appreciate and even imitate somebody without leaving your personality on the cutting room floor.
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Any reasonable person understands that even the best people are critically flawed in some ways. I'm sure some people do expect perfection, but just because there are a few misguided people it's automatically a bad practice?
There's a reason they're call role models and not 'Paragons of Humanity'.
Despite her age (58) she still looks very beautiful. I guess when you're that active you age slower than most women.HardkorSB said:I used to be really into martial arts and my absolute favorite martial artist (and one of the main reasons why I got into martial arts) was Cynthia Rothrock:
Hot, badass and not a bad actress either.
Too bad she never got really popular, I really wanted to see her in some big budget stuff.
The thing that pissed me off was the fact that the character of Sonya Blade was based on her, yet they didn't cast her as Sonya Blade in the MK movie and instead went with someone who couldn't portray a convincing fighter to save her life (forgot her name and I don't care enough to look it up).
Over the years however, I became a cynical bastard and I don't have any role models anymore.
I do look at certain people as points of reference for where I am in life vs where I want to be but that's about it.