https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epeCKtbXcOM
I started this blog to legitimately break a societal taboo; to talk about real things that happen and true problems certain people have when it comes to peeing and pooing, but of course there truly is such a thing as going infinitely far beyond the foresaid.
Study the fourth horseman, people.
This article was really interesting. It included so many products and facts I did not previously know about. I wonder what it would have been like if the extraction method had taken hold.
Also, abortion is never safe. Additionally, only women get periods and, as a matter of fact, people are only either male or female: there is no such thing as a trans man or a nonbinary person.
Companies always try to make us think they've now got the next best thing as part of their product, and this seems especially noticeable when it comes to disposable diapers. This podcast looks at the patent wars of the eighties and nineties between Procter & Gamble and Kimberly Clark over Pampers and Huggies. It would have been nice had the episode explained why the court ruled the way it did, but it's still an interesting listen.
Indeed, nothing provokes the earnestness or the, I think, fascination of diapers. We all wore them and they force us to confront an aspect of being human most of us (though, granted, society's attitudes have changed a lot in the last couple decades) don't want to talk about. There's a reason they didn't do "The Instant Camera Wars" or "The Sewing Machine Wars."
First of all, I had no idea there were tie-on cloth diapers.
Second, it's neat how Disana is the oldest surviving cloth diaper brand, going back to the time when old school flannel reusables with safety pins and rubber pants were the norm for catching baby's poops and pees.
It's also so cool how the daughters of the founders are now running Disana, and that they actually wore their product way back when.
Here's a history of the company.
This history of teaching children to use the toilet contains lots of interesting things I didn't know and hadn't heard about. I question the accuracy of some of the items, but nonetheless this document clearly shows how and why the toilet training age has gone up and up and up, now to the insane point of one month after the child's third birthday.
Here's a history of the disposable diaper, at least up to the end of the 00s. Sure interesting to look back at all these old diaper brands and to find out about those of which I had never heard.
Came across this in PDF form years ago and glad I found it again.
Here's an updated version, tracing disposable diapers all the way to 2019.
