Kenneth McKendrick

Like if you think about language and color, for example, just to move it outside of the topic of evil, if you don't have the color orange, like the word orange, you're never going to see orange.

You see the colors that you have names for because you have no other way of communicating apart from those words, right?

And so you see more colors because you've got the language to do that.

We are developing new vocabularies all the time to talk about, you know, our feelings, to talk about how the world works and that kind of thing.

And that's really exciting.

Yes.

And almost an unequivocal yes.

It's not across the board, but very, very often the feminine coincides with prevalent notions of evil.

If you're looking at dangerous or harmful or not to be trusted or polluted or profane or contagious...

very often the feminine is associated with that.

And it tends to be fairly cross-cultural.

It's not universal.

I wouldn't say we find this everywhere all the time.

We do find exceptions where there are cultures and places that which, you know, women are not viewed as polluted or dangerous, but time and time again.

And there's a lot of reasons for this.

You know, go to a women and gender studies department.

And, you know, every single person there will be able to, you know, sort of talk about this thing all day long.

Like, there are so many reasons and so many possible explanations for why this is the case.

But it's extremely common, very cross-cultural information.

finding that men are pure and women are impure.