Red Diaper Baby @reddiaperbaby@abdl.link

1. I will not accept commodity fetishism. This is a phase. Society can grow out of it.

2. I will wear overalls in public at least once a month. To show my support for socialism, obviously.

3. I will use disposable products less and reusable products more.

4. I will seek opportunities to engage in mutual aid.

5. I will read Kropotkin's "Mutual Aid."

6. I will make some art.

7. Sometime this year, I will share some of my art here!

I was a red diaper baby...and I still am! Things I like:

Leftist parties
Diaper parties
Making capitalists wet their pants
Making anybody wet their pants
White-collar workers wearing overalls
All adults wearing #shortalls
Fewer people in prisons
More adults in playpens

Worker-owned #ABDL businesses
Fighting alienation with snuggles
Overthrowing the tyranny of toilet training

Potty training charts are the beginning of surveillance.

Authority figures track your behavior so that they can get you to do what's convenient for them...not what's convenient for you. They try to make you excited about the way they're tracking your behavior.

Resist.

Wet your pants.

Stop caring about the smiley faces.

Give the authorities bad data. Conceal your "accidents." Pour water on your trousers.

Fill every square of your chart with drawings of Emma Goldman.

I accepted "diapers are expensive" as a reason to stop wearing diapers. But nobody ever persuaded me that "big kid" underwear is better. It's just cheaper.

I like wearing diapers, shortalls, and sleepers because I liked those things when I was a toddler and nobody ever persuaded me to change my mind.

Maybe I am a leftist because I blame capitalism for taking my night diapers away!

Or maybe I am a leftist because I don't like social norms that don't have reasons.

Why am I ABDL? Thinking back on my earliest memories, I think I have an answer. It may explain my politics.

People told me that as I got older, I should stop sleeping in a diaper, wearing footed PJs, and snuggling a teddy bear. They told me these things were shameful for older children. But they never told me why. I didn't buy it.

My dad told me I should stop wearing night diapers because diapers are expensive, and the family could use the money for other things.

My favorite board game is Anarchist Monopoly.

http://existentialcomics.com/comic/159

A new study published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy shows that there is no correlation between ABDL and pedophilia. Cisgender ABDL men report pedophilic interests at the same rate as other cisgender men.

The study also found that a high percentage of ABDLs (about 2/3 of respondents) experienced some form of childhood mistreatment. This is a higher rate than the general population of the US or Germany reports.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2019.1623355

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/136

I used to be punished with pink diapers when I said something that was too friendly to markets or corporations.

It was embarrassing. I learned my lesson.

Don't let techbros play Big Brother.

Say no to surveillance capitalism, and make the techbros wet their pants.

Statista estimates 1.58kg of municipal solid waste per day is typical for high income people globally (which includes middle-class people in rich countries).

Putting a dry ABDL diaper in the trash every day would increase trash production by about 15% by weight. But of course most ABDLs do not keep their diapers dry. Adding twice the diaper's dry weight in liquid would be typical.

There's a lot of variation, but a 50% increase in trash production is a good estimate.

The carbon footprint of nappies for a British child (assuming 2.5 years in nappies, 4.16 changes per day) has been estimated at 626 kg CO2.

(Source: http://www.ahpma.co.uk/docs/LCA.pdf)

Assuming the carbon footprint of ABDL diapers compared with baby diapers is the same ratio as their mass (225g v. 50g), wearing an ABDL diaper every night has an annual carbon footprint of 301 kg CO2.

By comparison, the carbon impact of the average UK citizen is 6500 kg of CO2. (The US is worse.)

Worried about the impact of ABDL on the environment? Here are some statistics.

Wearing a disposable ABDL diaper every night has a small but real effect on your carbon footprint. It's about a 5% increase if you are a typical British citizen.

Wearing a disposable ABDL diaper every night increases your solid waste production a lot. It could easily add 50% to the weight of your trash.

Here are some norms I don't understand:

1) Boys wear blue, girls wear pink. (Why?)

2) I am too old to sleep with a stuffed animal. (Why?)

3) Big kids and grownups don't drink from bottles or sippy cups. (Why not?)

4) Adult men don't wear shortalls. (Why not? They look great!)

5) Toddlers have to share their toys but adults don't. (Let's be consistent!)

Chesterton's meta-fence says don't try to stop me when I try to clear away these bad norms!

TIL what Chesterton's meta-fence is, and I love it.

G.K. Chesterton says that the reasons for having a fence aren't always obvious. You shouldn't take down a fence (or destroy a social norm) unless you fully understand why it was put up.

Chesterton's meta-fence: In our current system, getting rid of Chesterton fences is a well-established practice. You shouldn't interfere with this practice unless you fully understand it.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WxDpeBi6aQAMH4BGB/stub-the-problem-with-chesterton-s-fence

Feeling nostalgic for the ABDL Internet of the mid-1990s.

The first diaper stories I ever read were from the FTP site jack-vance.mit.edu. Does anyone know if an archive of that site is available somewhere?

The first ABDL photos I saw were of a man named Marcus A (short for Marcus Aurelius, I think). Does anyone know if he's still around & active in the community? Are his photos still circulating?

A result from the SlateStarCodex annual survey: there's no correlation between having younger siblings and having a diaper fetish.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/05/15/a-critical-period-for-lactation-fetishes/

Pup play is the subject of a New York Times article!

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/style/pup-play.html

I wet my pants only to express my contempt for the norms of a hierarchical society.

It's the beginning of a new month, and I'm rethinking a lot of stuff.

Maybe capitalism is good.

Maybe I should get CEOs instead of public defenders on my superhero pajamas.

Maybe I should just obey Big Brother instead of making faces at him and hiding subversive messages in his electronic toys.

"We do not advocate Communism and Anarchy because we imagine men to be better than they really are; if we had angels among us , we might be tempted to entrust to them the task of organizing us, though doubtless even they would show the cloven foot very soon. But it is just because we take men as they are that we say: 'Do not entrust them with the governing of you.'"

Peter Kropotkin, "The Place of Anarchism in Socialist Evolution"

#kropotkin