Sam <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I agree the car seat safety issue is a strong one, and I do not take that
> lightly, either. Let's substitute strollers!
> 
> Or, we could use the diaper issue. I mentioned to Pam that there was a
> mother who was so engrossed with her diapers (at $15 each) that she tried to
> convince every mother to use them. She would bring boxes with her to
> meetings, pass them around and talk about them endlessly. She would laugh
> about "selling so many mothers" to this brand, she felt she should get a
> commission.
> 
> It got to where mothers almost apologized for using paper diapers, or the
> "cheap" prefolds. 

This is an interesting example of induced irrational thinking, which I
think (I hope, for the sake of the list topic!) has analogies in
"breastfeeding products".  Some might argue about just where those
analogies lie, however.

The woman showing off the 15 dollar cloth diaper wasn't, in fact, using
the most expensive diapering solution at all - the ones using paper
diapers were, by _nearly an order of magnitude_. Yet the paper diaperers
felt, I'm guessing, they were doing the "normal" mainstream thing, that
"everybody does", by buying the product mass-produced by a huge
multinational industry devoted to using twisted 'research' findings and
misleading statements in their marketing, the product that this industry
has convinced their doctors and nurses is the "standard" that all other
diapers should be measured against. 

Lara Hopkins

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