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Introductory post
Jun. 4th, 2017 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stardreamerHi, 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!
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!