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And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.

Benjamin Franklin

Franklin's "Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind . . . "

Ha, I do miss the extra crotch room. Here’s actually an interesting article about why women’s pants have been getting even tighter in the crotch (spoiler alert - it’s money):

fashion-incubator.com/anatomy_of_a_camel_toe_pt1/

fashion-incubator.com/anatomy_of_a_camel_toe_pt2/

Anatomy of a Camel Toe pt.1

Until about a year ago, I’d never heard of “camel toe” but significant other explained it was a popular culture description of the crotch of a woman’s pants that was inordin…

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I used to wear only men’s pants, including cargo pants, and oh boy is it disgusting how much better I get treated by service workers, etc. since switching to vaguely fashionable women’s pants. Fit issues aside, it’s a lot more complicated than “just buy men’s pants” (although I guess at least cargo pants for women are back “in” now?)

the waist thing is a non-issue

Depends on the shape of your hips. I wore men’s pants almost exclusively until my hips changed a lot during pregnancy and I haven’t been able to find a comfy pair of men’s pants since (and I’m far from the only woman I know with this problem). Glad it works for you, though! The huge pockets are so nice and the fabric is usually sturdier, too.

I’ll stick with ikea until the kids move out

Yeah, this is it for us. I grew up in a home with a lot of “grandma’s heirloom dining table” type items that I was punished for bumping into, spilling on, etc. While I do believe in teaching kids respect, it seems like a lot of unnecessary stress for both parents and kids to use this stuff as your daily driver and we don’t have the space for special-occasions-only furniture.

Yep, CA Dept of Housing considers an individual making less than $109k “low-income” - that’s about what you’d need to qualify for a 1br apartment there.
Maybe this varies from country to country, but IME the mapping of descriptions to numbers isn’t clear, which makes it hard to give a good response. At best, they’ll pull out something like this.

The text of the 22nd amendment is pretty clear:

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

If they’re going to try to argue that means 1+2 terms is ok, doesn’t seem like that would preclude 2+1.

The 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

SECTION. 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once.

National Constitution Center – constitutioncenter.org

Our clothes are comfy af

Not if you have curves, unfortunately. You can size up and belt down, but then you’re left with a ton of extra fabric wadded up around your waist and the belt buckle will ride up and pinch.

Why should women have to buy clothes that fit poorly and are uncomfortable just to get functional pockets?