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Women can access parallel universes in order to find things, whether they do it consciously or not. They have probably always been able to do this, and now there is fierce speculation as to whether this constituted the evolutionary advantage we had over other primates: the presence of bulbs, grains and nuts on the table that had been retrieved from parallel universes when the hunters came home empty-handed was probably a major factor in the survival of our species.

The commonalities between fundamentalist Islam and fundamentalist Judaism are striking: both want to treat women like prisoners, relegated to perpetual childbearing and restricted from participating in intellectual or public life. And it's not just these two faiths, but virtually every religion, for which this pattern holds true (this is something I've speculated on the reasons for). Contrary to the belief that religion is the source of all morality, it's a safe bet that, the more respect someone claims to have for God, the less they're likely to have for women.