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1: Masculinity and Its Discontents - Nina Power | Maiden Mother Matriarch 1

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry

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Is There a Role Model on the Internet?

It's very easy to form these parasocial attachments and think that we know somebody or this person presents a good role model. You're seeing an incredibly artificial presentation of 5% of this person's life in which they are basically acting for an audience in order to get money. Nobody should be having role models from the internet, you know what I mean? Not, not in a kind of series. We all follow different writers and speakers, you know, and hopefully have a whole plurality of views. But yeah, I mean, but I understand for young people, especially, like he says, into this void or this gap where there isn't any positive role models.

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