transwomen and 'The Red Tent'

[PrincessToadinTheHole]

I've just read this book and really enjoyed it so nuch I was searching the net for blogs about it and I found this one.

Reading the novel in 2015, there is a definite cis understanding of womanhood and I hope a new edition of the would include an introduction by Diamant, welcoming transwomen into the fold of womanhood the novel creates. I can only hope.

I'm trying to imagine an alternative less cisexist version of the book written today where Joseph realises he's actually a lesbian. There'd be no book of course because women would not need to retreat away from men when they were 'unclean' and their stories would be told to men as well women and they'd all be equals.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/asexualfeminist.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/books-by-women-the-red-tent/amp/

It's an odd thought, that a book should be "retrofitted" to take into account modern identity politics and to crowbar transgenderism into a book that has nothing to do with how some men feel.

What? How bizarre.

The Red Tent was the tent where women stay during their menstruation, wasn't it?

Well, okay, transwomen can stay there when they menstruate.

Which is never. Problem solved.

It's an odd thought, that a book should be "retrofitted" to take into account modern identity politics and to crowbar transgenderism into a book that has nothing to do with how some men feel.

It is, indeed, very bizarre.

Never in the history of ever has anyone rewritten novels for adults to fit current times, the only changes I am aware of are removing racist words from children's books.

Why not demand that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice should be changed so that Elizabeth Bennet can become a lawyer and Charlotte Lucas joins the military instead of marrying Mr. Collins?

Oh, and the problem with Elizabeth not inheriting the estate will be removed completely, as that's hardly appropriate in those enlightened times we live in, is it?

Eh, I'll wait for the Zombie Apocalypse version. You cant run from zombies in high heels and corsets.

I wonder why it hadn't occurred to the author to include a transman as the story is totally rooted in female biology. All aspects, fertility, infertility, breast feeding, menstruation. There's always a penis we should be accommodating

What a strange idea. do they not realise the book was representing a certain time?

Oh I do so despair sometimes.

Seriously?

I mean seriously?

I'm as liberal as all get out but seriously…

The Red Tent was the tent where women stay during their menstruation, wasn't it?

Well, okay, transwomen can stay there when they menstruate.

Which is never. Problem solved.

really nothing more to say than that is there? Well perhaps adding that I think older women who've retired from menstruating might get an exception. Perhaps I'll just read the book...