The Childfree Movement, Archetype of Evil

Over at the Register blog, there’s another buzzing swarm of “Childfree Movement” folk, typified by comments like:

Jennifer, I have a feeling your kids arent going to grow up to cure cancer or anyone elses diseases if you’re homeschooling them and you have five, another on the way. How sad. I’m sure everyone is glad Hitler’s mom chose to procreate.

This and many other klassy comments (peppered with the ocassional demurral from some childfree person who is embarrassed by his fellows and who insists that you pay no attention to the boorish narcissistic misanthrope behind the curtain) is what you run into everywhere in the childfree movement.

I could not care less what people decide to do with their procreative faculties in the privacy of their own home. If somebody chooses not to have kids, ‘sup to them. But the Childfree *Movement* is not about privacy. It’s about the public denunciation of children as pests, threats, inconveniences, and vermin. It’s about the ridicule, accusation and shaming of parents–especially parents who have “too many” children. And it’s about religious bigotry. That’s because it’s all really about narcissism and selfishness. The moment you move from a private decision to spitting on the decisions of others and aggressively expressing your hostility to children, parents, and religious believers for being different from you is the moment you are the aggressor–and the moment you should be opposed for selfish, life-denying narcissist you are.