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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Menopause was really being discussed for the first time in the 80’s as a non-taboo subject. That’s why it was discussed more. Also, hormone replacement therapy was big business. [/quote] Actually, it was discussed quite a bit in the 60’s and 70’s as well. [/quote] I think it's a few things: 1) Demographics. Back then the baby boomers were going through it. They're just a larger group of people. Now it's GenX. We're small, nobody listens to us anyway. 2) An opening up of the conversation. The 60s and 70s ushered in an era of openness about women's health that didn't exist earlier. Women in the 1950s didn't discuss these things in the media, so they just weren't there. The taboos fell away, so the conversation expanded then. 3) Big pharma had something to sell back then. HRT became big, so it was discussed alot more. Then they discovered a connection to hormone-fueled breast cancer, so that went away. [/quote]
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