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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (59170)	2/28/2001 9:53:31 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Reading a book called-- The Sound of the Silver Horn by Kathleen Noble Do you remember the Hero with a thousand faces? Campbell? This book addresses how few faces we women have in mythology that are faces of adventure and courage and nobility. I noticed a post by Average Joe at the Boxing thread to E, that was almost too stupid to comment on EXCEPT that it so perfectly pointed out the opposite of what he tried to say was truth. He was trying, by mentioning Joan d'Arc, and Margaret Thatcher, and someone else I forget, to say that the paucity of dominant female figures was a lie, that thelives of the above women made this a myth. But this is just so wrong. They are the exceptions. Actually women are portrayed through the years as dependent, as supporters of the hero figure, as beautiful and "good". THey aren't ACTIVE. They aren;t out there slaying the dragons, not even PRincess Leia. Or CatWoman. Or Lois Lane. They still are googlyeyed over men. ANd they wear slinky outfits. I bet you have read to your daughters that wonderful fairy tale rewrite where SHE slays the dragon, ("thank you very much, I can take care of this by myself") I think the woman of DAR are women who are into dragonslaying, each in her own way. On her own heroic quest. Joseph Campbell just didn't quite get this. We don't want to be just watching the heros with their swords, we want to BE the heros wielding our own swords.