Rick Powell
@rickpowellcdmx
Cook and English teacher. Risky writer. Lover of beer, dudes, and movies.
@rickpowellcdmx
Cook and English teacher. Risky writer. Lover of beer, dudes, and movies.
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.
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 moreThe 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 moreRe: 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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