#CriticalAnalyser

Like, your fave has definitely mistreated someone, unless they’re Javi, Laura Lee or Callie

Nothing against tainat, cause I love them a lot, but its obviously hypocritical because they always act like Shauna is the worst person alive while glazing Natalie in spite of the fact that you never see her thanking Tai for any of it either

But when Shauna is an asshole, suddenly that means that she is a horrible, toxic human being who must be kept twenty feet away from Tai at all times.

Like, I’m not saying you have to like Taishauna, but it really reeks of hypocrisy

Before Van shows up, Tai is checking Coach Ben vitals after they pulled the piece of the plane of his newly deformed leg

And then Van shows up, and Tai immediately runs to her within seconds of seeing her

This means that based on the speed with which she ran to Van, she must’ve jumped over Coach Ben’s body, which I find incredibly funny

I just imagined her doing something like this

Based on Natalie’s face, she must’ve done something like that 😭

Like look at this bro, Jackie missed out on all this 😭

Like, yeah, some of the others would definitely end up under the wish, like Travis or Coach Ben, or Natalie and Jackie. Poor Lottie would probably be mute, but the amount of characters who would wish for Shauna to “stop being such a bitch”? Yeah, that’s probably everyone, especially Mari and Natalie.

Jackie, Melissa and Lottie would definitely wish for Shauna to love them, (but Lottie would probably bring back wilderness baby), Jeff would wish for Shauna to be a more palatable wife (he’s definitely the bear variant of this show), Adam would probably also wish for Shauna to spill her secrets or love him more than her family as well. I could see Tai making a well meaning wish for Shauna to be happy. Even Callie would make a wish on Shauna (even if it was also well meaning)

I’m pretty sure almost everyone would accidentally put Shauna under the wishes influence

Thank you so much! This is so sweet of you and you honestly made my day 🥹

How weird, the grown ass man, who is their coach btw, is not responsible for the safety and wellbeing of his students? Because, according to her

1- He is not a doctor

2- He was hallucinating and nobody cared enough about him to notice

3- He is scared of the girls

4- Him being the adult doesn’t count anymore because of the crash and losing his authority

5- Shauna didn’t help coach ben when his leg was amputated, and yes I swear to god she said that

Clearly this is an incredible amount of mental gymnastics

So I am going to debunk this incredibly stupid claim

Firstly, yes, Coach Ben was responsible for the girls, it’s kind of in the job description

You see, a coach is a teacher, who has a legal and ethical responsibility to keep the children under their supervision safe

And yes, that responsibility still applies, even in a plane crash

Yes, I can empathize with Coach Ben since he lost his leg, and I can understand why it would be much harder to take responsibility with his new disability, the responsibility he holds doesn’t just stop applying.

I can empathize with his situation, but it’s obvious that he clearly mentally checked out when it came to the kids other than Natalie or Laura Lee in episode 8 and Travis sometimes or Jackie that one time in the season one finale.

And abandoning them in their moment of need is a bad thing that he can and should be held accountable for

Coach Ben is capable of helping the girls even without his leg, he has helped them in the past as well. He was able to guide Mari through resetting her knee, he continued to teach the teens about wilderness survival throughout s1 and s2, he teaches Tai to trap, Akilah to prep hides, Nat to make maps and Shauna how to butcher.

He can help and he is capable of keeping himself alive after abandoning the girls in season three, so yes, he can be held accountable for choosing to abandon Shauna

“But he’s not a doctor 🥺”. I’m sorry but I missed the part where Misty and Akilah had their bachelors degree?

The issue isn’t the fact that he doesn’t know, it’s that he doesn’t want to deal with it at all, he purposely closes his ears and attempts to check out mentally on purpose, even imaginary Paul points this out.

The other reason (I’m not going through this in order sorry) that “he was hallucinating and nobody cared enough about him to notice” is kind of fair, until you realize it went both ways.

Coach Ben slept on the only bed in the cabin, while Shauna, the pregnant teenager he later abandoned, slept on the floor. Tai was sleepwalking, and not once did he notice, Lottie was losing her mind and he didn’t notice.

It’s kind of weird how the teenage girls according to this person are to be more concerned about the grown man, while said grown man, despite being the adult, is completely not obligated to care about them

According to this comment apparently Shauna is a psychopath, so it’s okay that Coach Ben abandoned her! 😂

“Evil psychopaths don’t deserve care! 😈 I’m so edgy!”

Firstly, Shauna isn’t a psychopath, secondly, it’s called ASPD, and it’s a mental disorder that doesn’t make you evil. And yes, even people with ASPD deserve care. You’re not making the valid point you think you are.

Mental illness is not something that makes you evil or unworthy of love, this is why people with these illnesses have a hard time being understood because of dumbasses who think that a condition makes someone tainted or evil.

Clearly, some Coach Ben fans clearly think like this and it shows

It’s always “fuck them kids 😝 lmao 🤣” until you remind people that this mindset was not only a horrible mindset for a grown man to have towards the children he is legally responsible for, but that this mindset was rooted in his outright dehumanization of these children and that it’s a messed up way to treat children, then everyone starts doing mental gymnastics to justify why it was completely okay and even morally correct

I was reading a thread from back before season three aired about Coach Ben burning down the cabin and this was one of the responses

Lord forbid we point out that abandoning children was wrong 😑 without dehumanizing the children he abandoned I guess?

Yes, the girls were wrong for dehumanizing and torturing him, and that it was horrific and cruel torture, but him dehumanizing the girls first for some reason is completely forgotten

He wasn’t really a fan of these girls pre crash anyway and that’s fair given that he’s an underpaid gym coach, and I can get why he would see Misty as a monster, given the fact that she attempted to rape him, and poisoned and assaulted him.

But he wasn’t present for Doomcoming or even Shauna beating Lottie. He only saw them eat Jackie’s (dead) corpse and mind you, he seems to have made an exception for Natalie oddly enough, which is weird considering she also ate Jackie and admitted that she wanted Lottie dead and he still wasn’t afraid of her, and even saw her as “better than the others” which is odd? 🤔

It’s almost like, he’s playing favorites? No wonder yjtt love him so much! He’s their self insert!

Besides all of that, him being scared of the girls is not even applicable to the situation that he is being criticized for. Shauna is giving birth, she is not in a position that should be seen as scary or terror inducing (in the way of feeling threatened by the girls obviously), the girls are clearly terrified, there is no reason for him to fear them hurting him, he chose to seclude himself for his own reasons, not because the girls scared him away. And blaming them for Coach Ben’s irrational fears is completely unfair.

And also, the girls don’t need authority, they need help, they don’t need this guy to have OBGYN types of knowledge, they obviously don’t expect that out of him. They just want him to be there, to do anything at all, to show that he cared about Shauna in some way. That’s all she wanted, to not be abandoned the the only adult in the room, was it that much for her to ask? Especially since she was in horrible pain and might have even died?

It’s crazy how you managed to villainize Shauna, the person who is bleeding out and possibly dying, over acknowledging that your fave screwed up

Screw not caring, they would’ve eaten it up, and happily cucked and humiliated woman!jeff the way they do any other women in media who gets in the way of two white men kissing (cough cough Sakura, Mel Medarda, Eleven)

I actually saw a fic where Jeff was secretly in love with Randy and the author pretty much blamed the “miserable witch Shauna” for ruining poor baby Jeff’s life 🥺, like Jeff was the miserable one

That was the cause of one of the first fights she had with Jackie, as Jackie hated the snow, and Shauna couldn’t understand why she would

Her love of snow would remain with her, and Jackie would make fun of her for it, until Jackie died in the snow, causing Shauna to see the snow the way Jackie did

It’s been a while since I’ve posted about stranger things but things like this are exactly why I hate this fandom

Like wdym Will replacing El would make the story better? Just admit you hate women.

And the moment he hits a snag, he robs her only friends and retraumatizes her with no remorse, and then whines to his teenage daughter like a child about how lonely and sad he is.

And the worst part is that now that his wife is going off the rails, he gets to look like the “good parent” and abandon her after talking shit about her to random strangers (funny how he grovels and kisses the asses of men like Kevyn or the furniture guys but can’t give his wife a genuine apology 🤔)

He just doesn’t care, and that’s the worst part. Shauna’s misery doesn’t bother him until it’s inconvenient to him. She can be miserable and depressed all she wants, as long as she’s washing his underwear and cooking him meals. But the moment he realizes that she’s going off the deep end, it’s too much for him to handle.