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13 Post author: David_Gerard 15 July 2013 08:13PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 18 July 2013 02:02:22AM 10 points [-]

Apparently, it is based on the very ancient idea that female period blood is in some sense a magical substance - so one can fashion a "Red Pill" out of it using sympathetic magick, and thus acquire some sort of occult or arcane knowledge which is normally exclusive to women and disallowed to men.

Have you seen The Matrix?