#confilct

 A lot of my issues with Caitlin are writing issues. Still, she is the biologist. That person is crucial to all sci-fi /fantasy/genre stories. She had an important job. I know there had to be days where Iris, Cisco, Joe, and Wally were problem solving and hit a dead end because they didn’t have their meta-biologist/Doctor Caitlin Snow there. They needed Caitlin. 

And on a more base emotional level, Caitlin lost Ronnie. She was consumed by it and dove into her work. She knew exactly what Iris was going and she wasn’t there.So don’t even get me started.

Y’all wanna talk about friendships between women but you have to be fair and take a look at what’s been written and think of what could have been. They chose to set up Caitlin’s secret /arc for the season instead of exploring what it would be like to have all of Star Labs together without Barry. 

Even if they wrote Caitlin apart from the team, there was opportunity for Iris and Caitlin to speak. 

Can you imagine if right after Joe forgives her and they all think the cannon failed-- that Barry wasn’t back -- if Caitlin had approached Iris and apologized for not supporting her through her loss. Imagine if Caitlin actually related to her and discussed overworking herself like Iris is now. If Caitlin had come to Iris and given her support. You still could have gotten the same “Where have you been for 6 months” scene and it still would have worked. But could you imagine if the writers would have tried to give them something?

Cisco and Iris butting heads only worked because we know these two get along and love each other. Iris and Caitlin have had nothing really. And that’s why Caitlin fans got all in their feelings about Iris in the premiere. 

But like i said in a different post. Caitlin got her forgiveness in Joe. Joe always seems to be there for her. 

Ben Shapiro is a coward, an adult that has been so sheltered his entire life that he's lost touch with reality.

Most of us having grown up in functional dysfunctional families, had to deal with conflict.

Conflict, in a 'safe' context, teaches us social mores and what is – and is not – allowed in a behavioral sense.

I'm confident saying that Ben Shapiro has never had a debate or argument, never mind an actual fight, that he wasn't in some degree in control of.

That's because he's developmentally speaking, a baby.

That annoying, high-pitched whine he calls a voice comes from deep inside him, which is kinda sad.

His combativeness is overcompensation. He's trying to be a man without quite knowing what that means because he's never had to deal with the nonsense that most of us have had to, because that's what money and privilege often do.

Lee Camp, or anyone for that matter, can challenge the garbage Shapiro says after the fact, but you can't 'ruin' someone who doesn't likely know that he exists from his ivory tower of pretentiousness and privilege.

You’ve Never Seen The Israel-Palestine Conflict Illustrated More Profoundly Than This

A little Help Please – the repost

This is a re-post because the original and all of it’s associated comments mysteriously went missing. The people who host my site said they could see where the post should be, but there was no content. They have backups on both sides of the post, but none that include the post, so unless some one out there has a copy, it has been lost.

I tried my best to reconstruct the original thoughts, but…