Saturday, 24 May 2014

On minority status

There is a strong impulse in the childfree community to avoid adopting a minority label for ourselves. Comparisons to LGBT are frequent and often met hostilely. I understand that gut reaction- we are not subject to the routine violence of many minorities for instance, and our whole shtick is built around the words "by choice".

However, I don't share those misgivings. I believe that we are as much of a minority as any other.