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Join us for part eleven of the Hero's Journey: Gender Inequality. For every minute you spend watching this video, we're going to pay you $1, so be sure that you pick up your check for $1.67 once you're done.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in the hero's journey I'll ask
- 00:09
you There's kind of a way to think of this
- 00:17
that critiques campbell and another way that absolves him a
- 00:20
little bit more What we can say for sure is
- 00:22
that campbell's understanding of the mono myth is very focused
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- 00:26
on men and generally where women appear in this story
- 00:31
They don't play centauri roles They play passive roles Sometimes
- 00:35
they need to be saved right So the princess is
- 00:38
the one that waits in the tower And the prince
- 00:41
is the one that's the hero that goes through the
- 00:43
work of saving her or they're even worse their temptresses
- 00:46
right there They're the evil stepmother medusa right there Their
- 00:51
challenge is to be vanquished So you know we can
- 00:56
say that campbell was really sexist That's one way to
- 00:58
look at this i think that's partly true we can
- 01:01
also say that campbell is reflecting that culture is sexist
- 01:04
and that a lot of the stories that got written
- 01:07
down and remembered over the generations because a lot of
- 01:10
societies have been dominated by men it's the stories about
- 01:13
men that have gained traction over the years And so
- 01:18
one way to kind of absolve campbell little bit of
- 01:21
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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