who gets to be a "role model?"

on rejecting the idea that all athletes should be respectable

“I want to be a role model for kids.”

That phrase has been uttered by more athletes than I can count; it’s become standard and expected. When you have a platform and millions of young people look up to you, you are assumed to carry a responsibility to set a good example and be the kind of person a kid should emulate. And to some extent, that’s true.

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