Rick Powell
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Cook and English teacher. Risky writer. Lover of beer, dudes, and movies.
Rick Powell
thecinesexual.com
- Hamish McKenzie: On social media, posers are often given the most status points, and so we’re left with a misleading idea of authority; it seems the people who are loudest in their claims to be experts — the ones we hear from most on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube — are the ones to be most wary of. When self-proclaimed experts are ultimately reveal... See more
from 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future by Youyang Gu
It could come tomorrow, it could come in forty years. It could be quick and painless, or it could be excruciating. Our greatest asset in that ordeal will not be religion, it will not even be the wise words of the philosophers. It will be, simply, our calm and reasoned mind.
from The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Stephen Hanselman
When the Dutch began treating “young transsexuals” in the 1990s, multiple clinicians, including a psychologist and a psychiatrist, rigorously evaluated them over long periods of time. The patients were required to meet the criteria for gender identity disorder, live in supportive families, be psychologically stable, and have suffered from “lifelong
... See morefrom Just Asking Questions by Lisa Selin Davis
The gender-affirming model is the opposite of careful.
Hate is the back of the mirror, without which you would just have a piece of glass. “It can be positive,” Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys wrote in a terrific 1992 polemic on the virtues of hate. “It throws into relief all the things you know you like. It tells you, by elimination, what you’re about… To hate a lot of things is tantamount to really
... See morefrom The dying art of the hatchet job - UnHerd by Dorian Lynskey
Re: That idio on Reddit who said that he would gladly leave all the two and one-star movies to us, if he could only he see the good ones. How that would work, I don’t know. I had commented that seeing bad movies helps hone your judgment.
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verisimilar
/ˌvɛrəˈsɪmələr/
The adjective verisimilar describes something that appears to be true or real but may not be. If you want to impress your friends, remark on the verisimilar portrait of lost love in that foreign film you all went to see.
Verisimilar comes from Latin. You’ll notice the word similar at the end, which means “like.” Veri- co... See morefrom Vocabulary.com - Learn Words - English Dictionary
All of Us Strangers
- “Our main point was that suicide mortality [among gender-distressed adolescents] was very low and explained by psychiatric morbidity. The notion that gender dysphoria per se vastly increases risk of suicide is false,” she said.
from Readwise
Free Full Gay Movie & Gallery: Patagonia (Simone Bozzelli, 2023) Italy Multiple Subs
by Rick Powell
- “This Rimbaldian ode to love and the absolute that is Patagonia moved me like very few films about youth culture ever have.”
from Locarno 2023 review: Patagonia (Simone Bozzelli) by Cédric Succivalli