Who's your favourite example of a prosocial fella *living today*?
I was just having this chat with someone around how many toxic figures exist in mainstream media, and how much a lot of messaging for young fellows seems to reduce to "don't be like that".
Then folks name examples of wonderful, prosocial fellas from other eras... but who's around *now*, doing the great work of modelling warmth, stability, open-mindedness, and constructive communal action for teens and young men?
@MLClark Levar Burton, Malala Yousafzai (do they have to be fellas?), Hasan Minhaj, Greta Thunberg, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack and Michelle Obama
They do have to be fellas in this case. :)
Men should also be inspired by women, but I'm speaking specifically to young fellas whose options are essentially be (or don't be) like Tate/Peterson/Vance/Musk etc in public discourse. It helps to be able to visualize other masculinities.
(Also, Hasan Minhaj got himself into a couple of deep scandals, one around treatment of members of staff for his show, that is unfortunately a real downer.)
That is a very sensible position! Saves a lot of unnecessary angst!
@MLClark oh bummer about Hasan. I (obviously) don't much attention to entertainment-type people.