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The Sheed in a Git Is a Fertility Symbol
The sheel in the gig is seen as a fertility symbol that encourages sexual activity. Other scholars reject that and say it was meant to protect against infant mortality. When you strip away patriarchy, i suppose, you don't simply assume a man made this and he's objectifying the woman. And so maybe women made the sheet in a gig, or maybe it was made for women.
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