Kenneth McKendrick

If a woman is menstruating, she's not allowed into the sacred sites and they have to be kept aside.

This is just crap, but it's remarkably durable.

Randy Warren has an excellent chapter on this in a book called The Guide for the Study of Religion.

where she talks about all of the different strategies that patriarchs and idocentric thinkers have used in order to either justify, rationalize, or force women into these positions and how their voices have been marginalized and completely ignored.

Evil genius.

So genius and madness, I think there's an overlap between these two notions.

So, you know, and when you have things coming from God, they could also come from the other direction as well, you know, from the devil.

And then it could also be madness.

When you've got that cauldron all swirling around, it's exciting and it's interesting and it will attract our attention to call someone an evil genius.

Right.

And one of the really fun villains that we have now is our villains that are more like machines.

Right.

Because machines are really smart and so much powerful calculation.

And, you know, having a machine inside a human being, that's really scary.

Like the Terminator kind of thing.

Right.

It's just a very it's a scary sort of compelling villain in many ways.

So, yeah, it's got a lot of it's got a lot of mileage on it.

Well, you know, something, the idea that women are evil looms pretty large.

Like if, you know, I'm in a boardroom and a woman talks and then Alderman Ed pretends that she didn't say anything.