Showing posts with label Papaya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Papaya. Show all posts

Sunday, October 18, 2020

Continuing with my gender studies

 


Continuing with my gender studies (final exam in two weeks and I haven't even begun to touch upon  eunuchs), I submit to you, dear reader, that there are female papaya trees, male papaya trees, and then hermaphrodite trees (a bit of both). It's the kind of cosmic irony that has the plant kingdom mirror the fiefdom of humans--or is it the other way around? I get so confused. 

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