being a natalism-critical feminist while also acknowledging children as the most vulnerable class…..once again my view is marginalized on both fronts
while some people can become irritatingly overzealous about being child-free, it's important to understand where that attitude often comes from. a lot of it is misdirected resentment towards children that comes from the intense socially and violently enforced expectation to have children. and tbh in reality the child-free rhetoric that turns outright anti-child that you see online really only represents a very small fringe. they're vastly outnumbered by people who frame child-free individuals or even the idea of child-free spaces as The Real Problem
in fact i see so many people on the left get mad about the idea of child-free spaces and claim that the existence of them is misogyny. children do occupy a vulnerable class in society, if not THE most vulnerable class, and while it's worth reflecting on how general aversion to children is problematic, calling the very idea of child-free spaces misogyny specifically suggests an agenda to frame childcare as fundamentally female labor
