After reading Janet Lucy and Terri Alison's excellent book
Moon Mother, Moon Daughter, my friends and I formed a small group,
meeting for several months, to honor our daughters' passage into womanhood. We
chose rituals that our girls were comfortable with. Far from producing
embarrassment and shame, the supportive group was there to empower and impart
knowledge to our girls, so they might forgo the embarrassment and shame that
was part of my generation's upbringing.
There's nothing wrong with honoring the moon — which by
the way does influence our menses. What Starshine is calling woo-woo, I call
biology.
Independent, what was your intention by
including the bloodbath photo from The Shining in the online version?
Scaring young women to death over a natural phenomenon? An unfortunate choice.