Already brought up the matter before, but IIRC as a related subject to the toilet/open-air defecation topic. But now at last an article has appeared on it.
swarajyamag.com/culture/why-india-doesnt-need-the-sanitary-napkin-revolution/
I searched the article for the word "market" and yes it's there:
The sanitary napkin industry wants to break into India's vast potential market. And modern India (the anglicised, and anglicising part, i.e. some of the present and all of the future) has proven itself a shove-over compared to China: easily socially-engineered to buy anything the massive western industries want. E.g. Valentine's Day, popularity of pageantry/modelling -> used to promote cosmetics industry.
Yet the west is STILL complaining audibly, as seen in international news reports, that despite China's promising 1 billion population, the west has been unable to generate (i.e. socially-engineer) in them any mass-consumerist need/desire for:
- chocolate
- wine
- tobacco
- diamonds for "proposing"
and forgot one more item (but the sanitary napkin industry would be another).
Of course there are people who smoke, drink wine and eat chocolate in China. But it still adds up to very few (IIRC just a couple of years back, international news admitted that the avg Chinese person consumed no more than 1.5 mars bars worth of chocolate per year) and the west whines endlessly about it, coming up with marketing/social engineering strategies galore on how to turn the huge Chinese population into programmable dunces (like Indians regularly prove themselves to be the more they speak English) that can be trained to buy [into] all the crap.
There are lots of E Asian stores like e.g. Taiwanese, Korean, and as I now see Indian stores too, that create (hand-made) reusable cloth napkins of the right materials and shape.
Be frugal Hindoos. Like your ancestors. Like Emperor Julian.
Make things last. Don't litter. Minimise your footprint on the environment. Avoid joining the plastic nightmare. I mean, even I - not a conscientious person at all - inspired by the older generation of Hindoos of course and by my sister, always carry a cloth bag for grocery shopping and thus try to avoid encouraging further manufacture of plastic bags as much as I can. Do this on a large scale - reduce demand - and you force a reduction in supply. The aim being that the world should forget me when I'm dead, not remember me as a burden to it even after I'm gone. It's a christo mentality to think the world is your personal garbage bin and expendable. But like every other species, we just *live* here. Yet, unlike most other species, humans have the power to massively change the planet, usually for the worse. Can't control other people, but can control oneself.
Let other people make it worse if that's their thing, don't need to join them.
And don't feed the monster/big industry which produces nothing but unwanted garbage.
More recently some E Asian colleagues were made aware of the availability of cloth pads - of course E Asian stores were recommended to them - and they were VERY interested. (But western women were not interested for the 'extra' hassle of washing reusable pads.)
The Chinese and other E Asian women regularly express great interest in frugality, a non-hypothetical but readily active interest in the environment (ready to bring it into their daily lives) and an interest in true autonomy and independence, freedom from social-engineering and manipulation.
Going cloth is also good for people: there are actually nasty chemicals in all famous brands of plasticky sanitary napkins, that are very hazardous to some miniscule proportion of women, and cause allergic reactions in others, and are generally not good for all women.
Lipbalm addiction - apparently this is a thing, no I didn't make it up, google it* - is thought to be psychological at best and alleged by some sufferers to be caused by [deliberate] chemicals put into lipbalm to make users (often women) addicted to it, such as by drying out their lips, and forced to buy it again to reapply it.
So it's not just napkins, lots of the chemical garbage out there in 'everyday' stuff can be nasty. Certainly the cosmetic industry in general uses seriously creepy stuff in their mainstream products, even when ignoring the chemicals. (E.g. The crushed exoskeleton of some shiny insect species is used in eyeshadow, as per recent MSN news.)
* msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/style/inside-the-strange-world-of-lip-balm-addiction/ar-BBhiFqy
:wow:
But oh look another market:
Let the Deepika "My Choice" Padukones - programmable Indian barbies - fall for every trick in the western social-engineering book.
Hindoo women should just remain Asian in mentality/culture.*
* All my E Asian friends now include Indians in their "Asian culture/values" self-references - a phrase previously reserved by Asians to refer to E and SE Asia onlee. But based on their standards and definition of what constitutes "Asian culture and values" as per them, Hindoos fit right in with that.
After my occasionally bringing up the old traditional Indian i.e. Hindoo outlook, by mentioning how frugal Hindoos were in the past and how therefore many still are, the ancient tradition of filial piety in India, Hindoo views of romance, etc. etc, they have started to automatically include Indians (i.e. Hindoos and other traditional Indics onlee, I impressed that clearly upon them with examples) in their self-identification terminology of "Asian culture/values". For every example I brought up, they repeated with decreasing surprise how this was just like them/their own people's way of thinking, "like all Asian culture", until eventually they spoke of Indians as part of the "Asian culture" or "our Asian culture" in their usual contrastive descriptions with "modern [occidental] western culture". [In defence of the west: ancient heathens in the west had exactly such values too. Modern western reverts to ancestral heathenism have it too, naturally - hints are clear at ysee.gr. And modern frugal plain vanilla atheist western people are usually frugal or can be easily inspired into frugality; though such modern western atheists' values/mentality are otherwise not Asian, there is still some convergence to common behaviour at least.
In contrast, anglicised Indians are a lost cause and are wannabe "western" "progressives". The triviality sets in with angelsk-speaking.]
Nearly forgot:
In certain western countries, sanitary napkins are apparently considered a "luxury item" from the POV of garbage disposal and hence are taxed (yet not men's razors - Huh?). Anyway, western fembots won't win that probably, fembots can at least get the true upperhand in the issue by going cloth instead of paying twice for such "luxury items".
And for the mercenary: going cloth saves money that you can use on other stuff.
My sister, more than 10 years ago, first looked for and went after cloth pads, since she thought the way our mother and aunts grew up using cloth was better. My sister's one of those unassuming do-gooders. She likes frugality, likes the heathen mentality of the dying generations of Hindoos: such as the generation of grandparents and aunts and uncles who would plant the seeds of each fruit they'd eaten, who would reuse all things that were reusable and didn't generate detrimental waste, and still don't. Who left no burdensome footprints behind, but added to the world in subtler and better/constructive ways. <- Today's Hindoos should continue to follow in their path - like the Taoists similarly follow their "Forerunners" (as they translate their sacred religious word) - and do what lies in one's power.
'Cause Hindoo/all heathen wo/men are better than what the demons would make them. Don't get sucked into the sanitary napkins industry and lipbalm (addiction). Crazy stuff.
At least Hindoos still feed the crows daily, and were feeding the now-scarce wandering saffron robed Sadhus or Siddhas/ascetics (they look like Rishis, very beautiful) who come for bhikSha. Last I saw one was maybe a decade or more ago. Can't even remember how long ago, just remember the event and their beautiful face.
The world of my childhood is dying. Guess all my complaining is but a lament and an unwillingness to let go. Don't know why I still can't let go, since it is going going gone - I know it is, but can't yet reconcile - and all attempts to hold on are in vain anyway.
But Hindoos and other traditional Indics may at least continue to be frugal for their own sakes and that of the environment.
Else, if frugality as an end is unattractive or seems pointless, can spend the same money on less wasteful and more wholesome or otherwise lasting stuff: besides ingredients for good food, can get good books, good music, good video content, creative materials :yay:, or even do philanthropia to Hindoo causes with the money saved (feed a Hindoo or a gau, etc). Can save the money for a rainy day. Anything, rather than throwing it away on throw-aways.
ADDED: Only tangentially related.
Have so far found Baba Ramdev's "Patanajali* Kesh(a) Kanti natural hair cleanser" a good replacement for shampoo. Better than all shampoos I've used. [* Also called Divya Pharmaceuticals.]
Wanted to support more Hindoo endeavours in daily living - plus Baba Ramdev famously adopted all Nepali children orphaned by the recent earthquake :love: Couldn't work out how to get any money to him and settled on this alternative in the meantime. Turned out to be a great choice for my hair. So I am now even more in his debt...
In contrast, "Himalaya" - is owned by one Manal family (CORRECTION: apparently an Arabic name too) and the grandson has an islamic sounding first name as well "Nabeel":
himalayaherbals.com/aboutus/index.htm
Also, the Himalaya website promotes oryanism, repeatedly going on about Vedas/Skt as Indo-European.
himalayadirect.com/about-ayurveda.aspx
Even Buddhism is credited - despite merely peddling what is Hindoo/Vedic - yet Hinduism=Vedic Religio is not mentioned or even acknowledged. Rather Veda and Skt is repeatedly dismissed under the references to "Indo-European, Indo-European".
And somehow even the Hittites and Hurrians are credited with the Ayurveda via mere mention of Nasatya, yet apparently they themselves make no mention of Ayurveda (though otherwise Hittites are argued to be an old Indian colony/contacts). Am surprised the Celts and Germanics weren't somehow tied into and thus credited with Ayurveda too then. Oh wait, the link refers to Germans translating the Susruta Samhita. Have to invoke Europeans somehow, despite their total non-contribution to Ayurveda, else modern Indians (esp oryanists) won't feel good about themselves/will think it all worthless.
Anyway, oryanists should by all means use Himalaya products. It's not every Indian Ayurveda company that proudly flies the IE flag. Such can overlook the rather islamically-named ownership of the company, poaching on Hinduism (without mentioning it) though they are. Perhaps even funding jihad with it...
The only relevant parts of this post are again the stuff in quote blocks. The rest is the usual spam.
swarajyamag.com/culture/why-india-doesnt-need-the-sanitary-napkin-revolution/
Quote:Foreign organizations are promoting the need to introduce sanitary napkins in India by saying that 88% of Indian women are using cloth. But in their own country they are promoting reusable cloth pads and menstrual cups, citing environmental reasons.
Open any write-up on menstruation in India, and you will find horror stories of how only 12% of Indian women are using Sanitary Napkins and that the others are almost dying from lack of access to such products. You will read about the poor Indian girl in a village who is dropping out of school because she suddenly started her period. And you will read about how India is full of superstitions and menstrual taboos that are coming in the way of us breaking free and embracing our bodyââ¬Â¦.and Sanitary Napkins.
Yes, these are horror stories; because most of what is written about India and menstruation is not true. And it is on the basis of this false information, that decisions are being made for India.
I searched the article for the word "market" and yes it's there:
Quote:The manufactured need
Most movements begin with a need. Either a real need or a manufactured one. In the case of the newly emerging space of menstrual hygiene management, the need is a manufactured one; specifically, for sanitary product manufacturing companies to enter the untapped market of India, especially rural India.
The sanitary napkin industry wants to break into India's vast potential market. And modern India (the anglicised, and anglicising part, i.e. some of the present and all of the future) has proven itself a shove-over compared to China: easily socially-engineered to buy anything the massive western industries want. E.g. Valentine's Day, popularity of pageantry/modelling -> used to promote cosmetics industry.
Yet the west is STILL complaining audibly, as seen in international news reports, that despite China's promising 1 billion population, the west has been unable to generate (i.e. socially-engineer) in them any mass-consumerist need/desire for:
- chocolate
- wine
- tobacco
- diamonds for "proposing"
and forgot one more item (but the sanitary napkin industry would be another).
Of course there are people who smoke, drink wine and eat chocolate in China. But it still adds up to very few (IIRC just a couple of years back, international news admitted that the avg Chinese person consumed no more than 1.5 mars bars worth of chocolate per year) and the west whines endlessly about it, coming up with marketing/social engineering strategies galore on how to turn the huge Chinese population into programmable dunces (like Indians regularly prove themselves to be the more they speak English) that can be trained to buy [into] all the crap.
There are lots of E Asian stores like e.g. Taiwanese, Korean, and as I now see Indian stores too, that create (hand-made) reusable cloth napkins of the right materials and shape.
Be frugal Hindoos. Like your ancestors. Like Emperor Julian.
Make things last. Don't litter. Minimise your footprint on the environment. Avoid joining the plastic nightmare. I mean, even I - not a conscientious person at all - inspired by the older generation of Hindoos of course and by my sister, always carry a cloth bag for grocery shopping and thus try to avoid encouraging further manufacture of plastic bags as much as I can. Do this on a large scale - reduce demand - and you force a reduction in supply. The aim being that the world should forget me when I'm dead, not remember me as a burden to it even after I'm gone. It's a christo mentality to think the world is your personal garbage bin and expendable. But like every other species, we just *live* here. Yet, unlike most other species, humans have the power to massively change the planet, usually for the worse. Can't control other people, but can control oneself.
Let other people make it worse if that's their thing, don't need to join them.
And don't feed the monster/big industry which produces nothing but unwanted garbage.
More recently some E Asian colleagues were made aware of the availability of cloth pads - of course E Asian stores were recommended to them - and they were VERY interested. (But western women were not interested for the 'extra' hassle of washing reusable pads.)
The Chinese and other E Asian women regularly express great interest in frugality, a non-hypothetical but readily active interest in the environment (ready to bring it into their daily lives) and an interest in true autonomy and independence, freedom from social-engineering and manipulation.
Going cloth is also good for people: there are actually nasty chemicals in all famous brands of plasticky sanitary napkins, that are very hazardous to some miniscule proportion of women, and cause allergic reactions in others, and are generally not good for all women.
Lipbalm addiction - apparently this is a thing, no I didn't make it up, google it* - is thought to be psychological at best and alleged by some sufferers to be caused by [deliberate] chemicals put into lipbalm to make users (often women) addicted to it, such as by drying out their lips, and forced to buy it again to reapply it.
So it's not just napkins, lots of the chemical garbage out there in 'everyday' stuff can be nasty. Certainly the cosmetic industry in general uses seriously creepy stuff in their mainstream products, even when ignoring the chemicals. (E.g. The crushed exoskeleton of some shiny insect species is used in eyeshadow, as per recent MSN news.)
* msn.com/en-au/lifestyle/style/inside-the-strange-world-of-lip-balm-addiction/ar-BBhiFqy
:wow:
But oh look another market:
Quote:Are you a lip balm addict? | Fashion | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com ââ¬Âº Fashion ââ¬Âº Beauty
Jan 2, 2015 - The global market for lip products is expected to hit ã1bn this year ââ¬â and lip balm is one of the most popular beauty items on the market.
Let the Deepika "My Choice" Padukones - programmable Indian barbies - fall for every trick in the western social-engineering book.
Hindoo women should just remain Asian in mentality/culture.*
* All my E Asian friends now include Indians in their "Asian culture/values" self-references - a phrase previously reserved by Asians to refer to E and SE Asia onlee. But based on their standards and definition of what constitutes "Asian culture and values" as per them, Hindoos fit right in with that.
After my occasionally bringing up the old traditional Indian i.e. Hindoo outlook, by mentioning how frugal Hindoos were in the past and how therefore many still are, the ancient tradition of filial piety in India, Hindoo views of romance, etc. etc, they have started to automatically include Indians (i.e. Hindoos and other traditional Indics onlee, I impressed that clearly upon them with examples) in their self-identification terminology of "Asian culture/values". For every example I brought up, they repeated with decreasing surprise how this was just like them/their own people's way of thinking, "like all Asian culture", until eventually they spoke of Indians as part of the "Asian culture" or "our Asian culture" in their usual contrastive descriptions with "modern [occidental] western culture". [In defence of the west: ancient heathens in the west had exactly such values too. Modern western reverts to ancestral heathenism have it too, naturally - hints are clear at ysee.gr. And modern frugal plain vanilla atheist western people are usually frugal or can be easily inspired into frugality; though such modern western atheists' values/mentality are otherwise not Asian, there is still some convergence to common behaviour at least.
In contrast, anglicised Indians are a lost cause and are wannabe "western" "progressives". The triviality sets in with angelsk-speaking.]
Nearly forgot:
In certain western countries, sanitary napkins are apparently considered a "luxury item" from the POV of garbage disposal and hence are taxed (yet not men's razors - Huh?). Anyway, western fembots won't win that probably, fembots can at least get the true upperhand in the issue by going cloth instead of paying twice for such "luxury items".
And for the mercenary: going cloth saves money that you can use on other stuff.
My sister, more than 10 years ago, first looked for and went after cloth pads, since she thought the way our mother and aunts grew up using cloth was better. My sister's one of those unassuming do-gooders. She likes frugality, likes the heathen mentality of the dying generations of Hindoos: such as the generation of grandparents and aunts and uncles who would plant the seeds of each fruit they'd eaten, who would reuse all things that were reusable and didn't generate detrimental waste, and still don't. Who left no burdensome footprints behind, but added to the world in subtler and better/constructive ways. <- Today's Hindoos should continue to follow in their path - like the Taoists similarly follow their "Forerunners" (as they translate their sacred religious word) - and do what lies in one's power.
'Cause Hindoo/all heathen wo/men are better than what the demons would make them. Don't get sucked into the sanitary napkins industry and lipbalm (addiction). Crazy stuff.
At least Hindoos still feed the crows daily, and were feeding the now-scarce wandering saffron robed Sadhus or Siddhas/ascetics (they look like Rishis, very beautiful) who come for bhikSha. Last I saw one was maybe a decade or more ago. Can't even remember how long ago, just remember the event and their beautiful face.
The world of my childhood is dying. Guess all my complaining is but a lament and an unwillingness to let go. Don't know why I still can't let go, since it is going going gone - I know it is, but can't yet reconcile - and all attempts to hold on are in vain anyway.
But Hindoos and other traditional Indics may at least continue to be frugal for their own sakes and that of the environment.
Else, if frugality as an end is unattractive or seems pointless, can spend the same money on less wasteful and more wholesome or otherwise lasting stuff: besides ingredients for good food, can get good books, good music, good video content, creative materials :yay:, or even do philanthropia to Hindoo causes with the money saved (feed a Hindoo or a gau, etc). Can save the money for a rainy day. Anything, rather than throwing it away on throw-aways.
ADDED: Only tangentially related.
Have so far found Baba Ramdev's "Patanajali* Kesh(a) Kanti natural hair cleanser" a good replacement for shampoo. Better than all shampoos I've used. [* Also called Divya Pharmaceuticals.]
Wanted to support more Hindoo endeavours in daily living - plus Baba Ramdev famously adopted all Nepali children orphaned by the recent earthquake :love: Couldn't work out how to get any money to him and settled on this alternative in the meantime. Turned out to be a great choice for my hair. So I am now even more in his debt...
In contrast, "Himalaya" - is owned by one Manal family (CORRECTION: apparently an Arabic name too) and the grandson has an islamic sounding first name as well "Nabeel":
himalayaherbals.com/aboutus/index.htm
Quote:2004
Nabeel Manal, the founderââ¬â¢s grandson, joins the company.
Also, the Himalaya website promotes oryanism, repeatedly going on about Vedas/Skt as Indo-European.
himalayadirect.com/about-ayurveda.aspx
Quote:Ayurveda's mythological origins, though, are attributed to the Indo-European Nasatya or Aswins, twin physicians of the gods of the ancient Indo-European pantheon. Four thousand year old references to the Nasatya are found in the now extinct, Hurrian and Hittite languages in Turkey, and in the Sanskrit language in India. Ayurveda is considered the upaveda or accessory Veda to the Atharva Veda. The four Vedas are the world's oldest literary documents in an Indo-European language.Then Buddhism is mentioned extensively in the above.
(Uh, I thought Ayurveda is an upaveda to the Rig not Atharva?)
A classic ayurvedic text, that parallels the time frame of the Atharva Veda, is the Charaka Samhita. Written in the Indus Valley area around 1000 B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) in Sanskrit, it is a treatise on general medicine. This strongly suggests the probability that ayurveda, though of pan Indo-European origins earlier, had begun to evolve into a distinct entity within the subcontinent by the first millennium B.C.E.
Even Buddhism is credited - despite merely peddling what is Hindoo/Vedic - yet Hinduism=Vedic Religio is not mentioned or even acknowledged. Rather Veda and Skt is repeatedly dismissed under the references to "Indo-European, Indo-European".
And somehow even the Hittites and Hurrians are credited with the Ayurveda via mere mention of Nasatya, yet apparently they themselves make no mention of Ayurveda (though otherwise Hittites are argued to be an old Indian colony/contacts). Am surprised the Celts and Germanics weren't somehow tied into and thus credited with Ayurveda too then. Oh wait, the link refers to Germans translating the Susruta Samhita. Have to invoke Europeans somehow, despite their total non-contribution to Ayurveda, else modern Indians (esp oryanists) won't feel good about themselves/will think it all worthless.
Anyway, oryanists should by all means use Himalaya products. It's not every Indian Ayurveda company that proudly flies the IE flag. Such can overlook the rather islamically-named ownership of the company, poaching on Hinduism (without mentioning it) though they are. Perhaps even funding jihad with it...
The only relevant parts of this post are again the stuff in quote blocks. The rest is the usual spam.