If guys are looking for role models in culture, they don't have very many to choose from. Male leads in entertainment tend to be played up for humor (think of the guys you see in The Office, Dodgeball, etc.) or are loved for their superpowers (Superman, Batman, Spiderman, James Bond, Iron Man).
If culture doesn't provide a good example of masculinity, who does?
The Family? No, with the rates of divorce as high as they are, a lot of boys grow up in broken homes.
In school? No, not there either. Men are disappearing from the classroom.
The number of male teachers is at an all-time low with a mere 24% of teachers being men. "I don't think I've interviewed any males in the last five or six years," elementary school principal Thomas DeVito said. "At his Ferryway School, where boys slightly outnumber girls,
male teachers are a rare species, presiding over only four of the 35 classrooms."
Our boys are growing up in a vacuum of masculinity.
The perfect book that analyzes these cultural transitions and provides a response that is not intimidated by the weight of the dilemma is "
The Kind of Man Every Man Should Be" by our own KMC. We can't afford to
not understand these issues.