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For those of you confused about why it’s “nearly all children” that’s because children born to foreign diplomats and children born on foreign owned boats in US waters aren’t citizens because the constitution says citizenship applies to people born in the US and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. Diplomats and people on foreign owned boats aren’t subject to the jurisdiction of the US government.

Thanks for the clarification!

There's also the additional aspect that if luxuries are what's expensive, you can choose to go without and then you don't have to make so much money. You can choose to work part-time, or seasonally, or one person can provide for a group, if living is cheap and you don't need luxury. But if being alive is expensive, you have no choice but to work a lot, regardless of how frugal your lifestyle is. And then you may as well buy yourself the latest gadget to cheer yourself up after another annoying week at work, because it costs barely anything anyway.

Dominant-language-proficiency is a Privilege, and having a "strong Passport" is a Privilege, and being Part of a culture whose values and Priorities (about gender, Body modesty, gendered body-modesty, ownership, inheritance, what Democracy "should" Look like, how important religious freedom "should" be, etc...) get accomodated by Default, is a privilege, and/but, being able to Vote for the Person in Control of the strongest Military in the world, is ALSO a privilege, AND Power, AND responsibility.

the place I work at remodeled these split gendered restrooms into “inclusive restrooms” and never told us what they meant while construction was ongoing. I need you to know every atom of potential criticism or whining that could’ve happened disappeared when people found out this meant we got 10 fully separate private bathrooms with sinks inside. I’ve not heard a single person crack a joke about the inclusive signage. this is the world TERFs are trying to steal from you

People for whom Gendered-Body-Modesty-Rules are important (like hijabi women), deserve the privacy to change clothes and attend to their hygiene needs in accordance with those beliefs, but they are not inherently entitled to the company of strangers, but ONLY the right Kind of Strangers, while doing so, especially Not at the cost of disabled people AND trans people AND parents-with-young-children.

ground control to crazy frog

what doesn't kill you makes you stay on tumblr for 13 years and counting

Fun fact: the DC area will be hotter than 99% of the earth tomorrow!

It's not global climate change, it's someone who just really hates Trump so much they changed the earth's entire climate. Christ.

I hate how women get so much flack for being older parents and men don’t. Do NOT mention the biological aspect because there is a higher rate of birth defects in children with older fathers too. I get so pissed off whenever I see a man over 45 (often 50+, sometimes 60+) talking about how he thinks he’s finally ready to settle down and start a family OR WORSE YET, leave his childfree relationship because he suddenly realized he wanted children. It would be a bit more understandable if these guys were looking for age appropriate women to settle down with but the guys that suddenly decide they want to be a father once they’re brushing up against middle age always want to impregnate a woman in her 20s or early 30s because they think women their age are ‘all used up’ and they are somehow…not? The general vibe of selfishness makes it difficult for me to believe you will be a good father and I hope your child comes home one way and asks you to stop coming to their school events because all of their peers call you ‘Grandpa Dad’.

also it's literally possible for a late-fifties man to seperate the genetic and the raising-children parts, such as by volunteering to be a donor spuncle to help his lesbian and/or infertile nibling get their wife pregnant, and on the other Hand getting with a late-forties single mother and helping her raise her teenagers.

Sometimes a guy in a fanfiction has the ability to read someone's gaze with the same level of detail a wine taster can taste the wine

"He glared at him with anger in his eyes, but behind that longing and sorrow over things left unsaid, a subtle but desperate yearning for things to be different, and with just a hint of roasted nuts right at the end."

we've all heard about the male gaze in media, but we've yet to explore the equally important sommelier gaze

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