Thanks for your reply. I was reacting to the West quote, and not you personally. I haven’t read Lindy West, and she looks interesting. I’m sorry I seemed over-reactive or critical. (Too “shrill,” if I may ;) ) But my response was to a breezy, kind-of-inaccurate, generalized characterization about “girls in the…

One popular book — Judy Blume’s Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret? (1970) - hardly constitutes evidence of the “cultiest” attention to menstrual onset or represents “incessant” writing of books. The book was a radical breakthrough publication in young women’s literature — of which there was little except Nancy Drew…