(I wrote earlier without listening to the full podcast and now) having heard the podcast I am fascinated by the idea that in the changing of gender the author may have unearthed hidden meanings that were crushed by the power dynamics of gender. I am most keenly interested in the resulting reference to menstruation out of what was the Cain and Abel story when gender changed the sound/spelling of a word and with it associated meaning.

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