Who’s Your Fave Fictional Male Role Model and Why?

From Amy Jussel, Shaping Youth

Nov. 17, 2009 Missed my mark on the Tuesday Packaging Boyhood post last week where I wanted to springboard from the fabulous “author’s spotlight” on Ypulse where they asked readers to share a fictional male role model they admire and why.

Ypulse offered a copy of the Packaging Boyhood book for the ‘first 3 comments’ and I chimed in that I’d like to carry it forward and continue the contest here on Shaping Youth with our end of year drawing next month since we’re giving away three copies from the names that are leaving comments each Tuesday. (yep, you keep commenting, you keep getting entered, do the math, play the odds, eh?)

Wanna play? I’m eager to hear from boys to men, as well as the females in their lives who may have a different pick altogether as we grapple with heroes, archetypes anti-hero role models and the ever-shifting concepts of masculinity, boyhood studies and what it means to be a man today. (more…)