I like your observation of the symbolic nature of the red background; however, I believe that it has been their custom to use red to draw attention to a new forum. I recall that the religion forum was treated in the same manner. I don't recall that they used red for Just For Fun, though.

As for The Red Tent, it was probably well written, but couldn't quite buy into the author's view. I put it down after a couple of chapters.

> Nice picture browser feature to this page,
> Woodie. I will try to upload something in
> the next week.

> I was looking at the Page Banner for NDN as
> a whole, and noticed that A Womans Place has
> a red background, while all the other pages
> have a black background. It got me to
> thinking about that book The Red Tent. Did
> you ever read that book? It's a fictional
> account of Deborah, Sara, Hagar, Bilhah,
> Rachel, et al-

> If you haven't read it, The Red Tent has
> just a tinge of paganism or what patriarchs
> would call "pagan" religion.
> Imagines the Mother Goddess worship in the
> the Women's Tent during their partitioning
> for menses or their "moons."

> It might be interesting to open a discussion
> of this book on "Just for Fun" if
> you or anyone else has read it, familiar
> with its maybe historical ideas about
> post-flood ancestors in the near middle
> east. My take on the many women of the
> Abraham-Isaac-Jacob tribe is that their
> voices are silent in history. We can only
> guess about what they spoke of among
> themselves in the Red Tent beyond the
> listening of men.

> In the meantime, it would be nice to know
> what the site editors were thinking when
> they decided the page banner for A Womans
> Place should be a different color from all
> the other pages and spectacularly red and
> easy to find when logging in. Does it
> signify purdah?