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Thank you We sneak in the hero's journey I'll ask

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you There's kind of a way to think of this

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that critiques campbell and another way that absolves him a

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little bit more What we can say for sure is

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that campbell's understanding of the mono myth is very focused

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on men and generally where women appear in this story

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They don't play centauri roles They play passive roles Sometimes

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they need to be saved right So the princess is

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the one that waits in the tower And the prince

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is the one that's the hero that goes through the

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work of saving her or they're even worse their temptresses

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right there They're the evil stepmother medusa right there Their

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challenge is to be vanquished So you know we can

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say that campbell was really sexist That's one way to

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look at this i think that's partly true we can

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also say that campbell is reflecting that culture is sexist

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and that a lot of the stories that got written

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down and remembered over the generations because a lot of

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societies have been dominated by men it's the stories about

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men that have gained traction over the years And so

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one way to kind of absolve campbell little bit of

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his sexism is to say that he's just reflecting the 00:01:23.824 --> [endTime] sexism of the cultures that he's describing Oh

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