Introductory post

[stardreamer]

Hi, I just found out about this community. I'm Lee, age 61, once married and divorced, currently in a LTR for close to 20 years. I made a conscious decision to be childfree shortly after I graduated from college and have never regretted it. People who bug me about it often do regret it! Fortunately, at my age that doesn't happen much any more.

I'm self-employed as a jewelry artist. I live in Houston; my interests include science fiction, science in general, contradancing, cats, and of late politics. I am proudly progressive and consider people who support Trump to be functionally delusional. I support marriage equality, women's autonomy in health issues, social justice for all, and 14th Amendment solutions to social problems.

I was pleased to read the sticky about not tolerating hate speech against parents. I have no objection to OTHER people having children; after all, someone has to! I've had to drop out of some childfree groups because it was like hanging out with the KKK. It's possible to discuss pro-natalist attitudes, social pressure to have children, and discriminatory policies against those who don't without dropping to that level.

Looking forward to reading many fine discussions here!

Comments

[angelbabe_cj]

Hi, nice to meet you.

I had to comment because thanks to spacing and my small phone screen I thought for a second you liked 'contradancing cats' because I didn't see the comma! Suddenly you seemed to know some incredibly impressive cats. Then my brain caught up and I found the comma.

Welcome!

[stardreamer]

*snerk* I don't know any contradancing cats, but I sure as hell would be interested in them if I did!

[wolfpurplemoon]

Hi Lee, welcome! It's good to hear the perspective of people who have passed the point of people expecting them to have kids and are still happy with their decision to be childfree!

I don't know if you had heard of Imzy, but they were attempting to make a social network where people were a lot more nice to each other than in some other corners of the internet. Sadly it's closing now, but I hope to keep that spirit alive in the interactions I have here on Dreamwidth. I certainly have no interest in joining the childfree group on a certain site beginning with r!

[underused]

Hi Lee - excellent intro. (Not sure I have too much else to add; just wanted to say hello.)

[kitcatwoman]

Hi Lee, nice to meet you. :) This is actually the first child free group I've been in, but I know all too well what you're talking about. Some people surround themselves with other people who think exactly like them and that's when things start to get crazy.

[thedaughteroftyr]

Welcome Lee!