Horrible Role models

[alik44]

Is it just me or the role models that children look up to nowadays are....well you know terrible terrible people that no one children should look up to. but who in fact is the worst role model for children yet children still look up to.

 

[Ruedyn]

Every ************ that was in that abomination Jersey Shore.

There, ninja'd probably over half the posts here.

 

[clipse15]

Is it just me or the role models that children look up to nowadays are....well you know terrible terrible people that no one children should look up to. but who in fact is the worst role model for children yet children still look up to.

Ok what is this based on? Are you really saying that role models are suddenly absent in today's world? please go into more detail.

 

[Phasmal]

You're gonna need to elaborate.
Especially about what age you mean by `Children`.
Who you look up to when you are three is a lot different to who you look up to when you are fifteen.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Everyone who isn't me.

I would be a lot easier to just state who is a good role model.

Spoiler: These guys?

These guys are great role models.

Men of learning, men who love to teach others about the amazing universe we live in.

 

[Zhukov]

Y'know, giving examples is one of life's great pleasures.

You should try it some time.

 

[Dags90]

You're gonna need to elaborate.
Especially about what age you mean by `Children`.
Who you look up to when you are three is a lot different to who you look up to when you are fifteen.

Yeah, by the time I was 15 I realized that I probably wouldn't ever grow up to be Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

 

[Cabisco]

I dunno, growing up my role model was a blue and red robot who turned into a truck so I don't know if I can honestly speak with a sense of authority on the matter. The second I figured out this wasn't a viable career option my life has turned to shit, it's been a hard 3 months.

 

[JeffBergGold]

This guy right here... His body is literally the incarnation of an ivory tower. Even with all the smarts in the world he can't figure out how to get good looking chicks! Look at those two dump trucks!

 

[DugMachine]

-Anybody on Jersey Shore

-Most DJs

-Girls on Teen Mom god that show pisses me off.

-Kim Kardashian

-Paris Hilton

-MTV reality star/skater hybrids


All the 'role models' of today are shit but i'm sure our parents were saying the same thing about ours so same old song and dance.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I think the whole concept of role models is ridiculous and unrealistic. No one person is ever going to be so flawless as to serve as the archetypal human being and pop culture figures don't owe your kids shit, so don't expect them to accomadate their behaviour at your behest. Parents should encourage their kids to be perceptive enough to determine specific qualities in specific people that are worth emulating and recognise that no single person can serve as the paradigm for them to mirror.

 

[HardkorSB]

Some people I now tend to look up to 2Pac.
They go around spewing the "thug life" bullshit, acting all gangsta, failing to realize that this thug lifestyle was most likely the main reason he was killed.

 

[RJ 17]

You're gonna need to elaborate.
Especially about what age you mean by `Children`.
Who you look up to when you are three is a lot different to who you look up to when you are fifteen.

Yeah, by the time I was 15 I realized that I probably wouldn't ever grow up to be Donatello from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Awwww, you just didn't wish hard enough!

OT: I don't think I even had a role model when I as growing up. I think values are taught by experience and how you're raised, not by trying to emulate others.

 

[Smeatza]

Lady Gaga

Teaching kids that if you dress like a stripper half the time, a mental patient the other half of the time and sing some of the most basic, generic, manufactured and awfully written pop out there, you'll be internationally famous.

Nicky Minaj, Katy Perry, Rihanna and all the rest of those plastic pop princess' fit under this banner.

And it wouldn't matter if they weren't so aggressively marketed towards kids.

 

[CrimsonBlack]

A horrible role model? Paul Ryan.

Good role models?

Christopher Hitchens

Gyles Brandreth

JRR Tolkien

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Every ************ that was in that abomination Jersey Shore.

There, ninja'd probably over half the posts here.

Well that was a quick thread...ended it with a single post, you did!

Anyway, there have always been bad role models.

Spoiler: Older Escapists may remember this guy for example:

Granted the WWE doesn't seem to be as batshit as the WWF/WCW used to be but there are still roided out douches wrestling.

Ya know what has been bothering me though? It seems like the biggest games this console generation have been aimed at adults/college kids. The biggest games aimed at kids have been Little Big Planet, Modnation Racers and the Nintendo mainstays (off the top of my head). Whereas most other high profile game this generation has been an M-Rated gore-fest with fuck-spewing asshole toughguys or, clothes hating ladies. Remember how Mass Effect was rated M but really didn't have graphic violence or harsh language? Then in ME2 everyone had learned the words "fuck" and "shit"? I don't know why but that kind of thing has been bothering me more and, more lately.

-Anybody on Jersey Shore

-Most DJs

-Girls on Teen Mom god that show pisses me off.
All the 'role models' of today are shit but i'm sure our parents were saying the same thing about ours so same old song and dance.

You just reminded me: Honey Boo-Boo. How the Hell did that creature get a show in the first place?!

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

You know, you may disagree but i don't think kids have much of a concept for what a "role model" really is. They just don't really have the insight to recognize famous peoples character traits in a way that it would ever occur to them to imitate them. I mean, sure, they may think "I want to be as rich as Bill Gates" or "I want to be as good looking as, say, Brad Pitt" but that's just really superficial stuff. They just don't think analytically enough to to pay attention to Brad Pitts personal life and to his mannerisms to try to imitate them. That's why i always found this talk about "bad rolemodels for kids" a bit absurd. As a kid you are not really able to have actual role models.

As a teen on the other hand? Yeah, i can see where you're coming from. But let's be honest here: If you're not able do tell positive and negative character traits apart by then it's probably to late for you anyway.

 

[Megacherv]

Everyone who isn't me.

I would be a lot easier to just state who is a good role model.

Spoiler: These guys?

These guys are great role models.

Men of learning, men who love to teach others about the amazing universe we live in.

Those three examples of role models are why when you inevitably dominate the Escapist, I shall be fighting under your flag

Pretty much anyone in the mainstream media that seems to take a complete disregard to education. Even Matt Lucas, one of the comedy geniuses behind Little Britain, brought a Maths teacher onto his show simply to mock her and the subject of Maths simply because some celebrity said they didn't like it.

Fucks me right off

 

[johnnyLupine]

Everyone who isn't me.

I would be a lot easier to just state who is a good role model.

Spoiler: These guys?

These guys are great role models.

Men of learning, men who love to teach others about the amazing universe we live in.

Those people are terrible role models!

I'll start with the role model in the first picture. Surely the reason this man is an aweful role model for the youth of today is obvious? I'll set this spoiler tag here to give anyone who hasn't figured it out some more time to think

Spoiler

The man was a criminal! We can't have children idolising people who have spent time behind bars!

The second role model was a musician as well as a profesor? such a terrible influance, we all know what musicians get up to when their on tour.

The third supposed role model has that look about him, probably shot a man. Can get away with practically anything out in the middle of nowhere.