Saturday, June 30, 2007

Things They Should Invent: the opposite of "role model"

Have you ever looked at someone and thought "Wow, I don't want to be like that!" and then that desire not to be like that informed your life choices?

There needs to be a word for that!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

How about "bad example?"

impudent strumpet said...

That encompasses it, but I'm looking for something more specific. A bad example could be something you emulate anyway (hence why parents keep telling their kids not to set a bad example). I'm looking more for something that you absolutely do not want to emulate.

laura k said...

I call it a negative role model.