Talk:The Red Tent (Diamant novel)

Since I cut out such a large part of the article, I wanted to go further into my reasoning than there was room for on the edit summary. I felt that there were two large issues with that section. The first was that only a small part of it seemed to address inaccuracies in the book and most of the rest of it consisted of a discussion of the benefits of not menstruating. While I haven't read The Red Tent in a while, I don't remember anything about why having your period was good. I left in the parts about women in prehistoric times not menstruating every month as opposed to women of modern times as well as the menstrual synchronicity parts, since they both actually address things that happened in the book. I did, however, add to everything I left there (even though I suspect both those criticisms are correct), which brings me to my next issue.

Nothing in that section was cited (nor was there anything in the reference list that looked like it pertained to menstruation in previous times or potential benefits and risks of amenorrhoea). This was particularly an issue in the parts that I removed, since the idea that amenorrhoea is more healthful than regular menstrual periods is not a common one, so (disregarding the question of whether it's a sufficiently widespread view to even be mentioned) it really needs to have supporting citations, especially since amenorrhoea is generally unusual and caused by either other health problems, pregnancy (and being constantly pregnant isn't easy on the body either), or menopause (which increases one's susceptibility to certain disorders including heart disease and osteoporosis). I also have questions about applying findings about hunter-gathers to all pre-historic groups in general, including people who practiced agriculture and/or herding, since lactation as birth control works for a shorter time in agricultural societies than hunter-gather ones. Further, the fact that suppressing the menstrual cycle helps with certain disorders doesn't mean it's necessarily better for the general female population. (Also, going by the wikipedia page on PMS, very few of the treatments for it involve any sort of manipulation of the menstrual cycle, and of the ones that do, I know that in at least some cases the patient takes birth control the standard way, i. e., she menstruates every month but doesn't ovulate.

TL;DR summary: I don't think the stuff that I removed was accurate, but I think the original author should get citations for it and try adding it to the actual amenorrhoea article because if you have evidence to support it, it's both interesting and pertinent to that article. 69.251.214.2 (talk) 03:05, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

The publication date in the article is wrong-this is manifest from the book itself. The copyright date is 1997. jcb336. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcb336 (talk • contribs) 06:28, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

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