Thank you for your perspective. I hope that I’m giving both of my kids the space to explore what gender means to them and who they are/want to be. It is weird, for example, to have my son’s favorite color be pink until the day that someone at school tells him that pink is a “girl color” and so he doesn’t like it any…

(1) I live in America and white boys like my son do this shit on the weekly

NGL, I wanted a girl when I got pregnant the first time. (I did not get a girl.) I remember finding out the gender like... one month? two? after the Boston marathon bombing, and in typical hormonal preggo fashion became OBSESSED with the possibility of my kid becoming a terrorist or mass shooter. Fortunately, this has…

*cough* what kind of princess doesn’t get her shit hand-embroidered and -sewn instead of serged like some kind of COMMONER

*clings to cat*

I enjoy both, to be fair, but Vogue tends towards patterns that are heavier on fussy and counterintuitive construction techniques. Interweave is less *fashion* but more focused on good intuitive design, AND they don’t keep trying to make mosaic knitting happen every two years.

okay fine I GUESS

how DARE SHE imply that “Vogue Knitting” is better than “Interweave Knits”

Legit, there have been some changes to this particular class of visas in the last 15 years that have made them much harder to get. But USCIS (legacy INS, in this case) was not, as far as I know, handing them out like candy, like, ever.

Academia is full of *attempts* at these visas.

Speaking from personal experience, surprisingly difficult. We have a lot of failed EB-1A (the technical classification for this visa) applicants who are nonetheless very accomplished faculty at the university where I work.

Counterpoint: I actually myself work in immigration law and these are hard to get.

as sassy as a cup of low-fat yogurt with someone’s name written on it

as sassy as a damp athletic sock

yeah, fat girls who love themselves and their bodies are truly the funniest thing 9_9;;;;;;;

there is no 12th circuit tho, you’re thinking of the Ninth Circuit

EW! NO! Content warning, please.

guess that first cup of the blood of innocents can only get him so far

counterpoint: does that mean kids won’t have as many hand RSIs, or will they just have different ones? Carpal tunnel syndrome runs in my family, and I’d love it if my kids didn’t have to suffer with it the way I do...