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Looking to emulate role models *is* the core of the crisis. It is not actually natural for guys to emulate role models. Following leaders in specific activities is natural, as is falling into team roles that fit you, but differentiation is core of male identity development.
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I tend to code emulation as a natural feminine tendency. When guys exhibit it, I read it as either a stress response or a weird situation triggering feminine-pattern intrasexual competition (some reality tv shows have this among guys who otherwise present as hyper masculine)
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I think you can distinguish having role models from choosing figures to look up to. Classical antiquity is full of examples of heroic men who showed the virtue and glory that can be achieved in the course of human life.
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Agree it’s crucial to have non-social creative interest. But think emulation as feminine-coded, bad for men, & the core of the crisis seems obviously wrong. Do we think emulation is a new development for men? Every man as a specialist in his own right seems more of the illusion
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This is just women trying fix the man stuff they broke by putting in more of the women stuff that broke it. Men need virtuous father figures and then virtuous brothers. Not the feminine ideal of programming by injecting ideas. That works for prepubescent kids only.