Batman’s rogue’s gallery has always featured villains that could
eat cops for breakfast while smiling at them over they’re glazed doughnuts. In
fact, that’s pretty much the point of tonight’s and Wednesday night’s episodes
of “The Flash” and Green Arrow which utilizes both episodes to demonstrate just
how did heroes lacking super powers survive engaging super villains with super
powers – answer – training, training and more training, plus a crap load of fancy
gadgets and specialized body armor. Maybe that’s why tonight’s Flash episode where
he’s pitted against Green Arrow demonstrates why even Flash has such utter
respect for Batman who’s the master of staying one step ahead of everybody
else. After all as tonight’s episode demonstrated in spite of super powers if
Arrow had wanted to kill the Flash he was more than capable of doing so. As
Cisco would say it was a tie, but then Arrow isn’t Batman. It causes me to
wonder if either Central or Star cities might be experiencing a Bat infestation?
Picture: By The Atlantic Disfactor art: By Jabram Allen According to David Shariatmadari off the Guardian “We think we know what a gay person sounds like. But there are caveats to the cliche — and ‘voice-shaming’ tells us a lot more about our culture than it does about the person speaking” According to Shariatmadari; “the research says probably not. There’s mountains of evidence to suggest we adapt our speech to more closely resemble that of people we identify with. The particular sounds a group of speakers makes use of are arbitrary. They acquire meaning and recognizability only through association. The fact that these changes are usually unconscious is well documented. But, linguistically speaking, sounding gay is really no different from sounding street, sounding posh or sounding like a bro”. In other words, groups develop, practice and telegraph those actions that set them apart from other groups so that they may be intentionally recognized by those that don’t be...
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