So give me examples of how Jale attacked Helen last year? Because Helen hated her every time she saw her she said something awful, walking past some one and calling then a slug ? Jale wasn't screaming at her then, she isolated her and made her the brunt of all her jokes.
Also Helen is an adult who you seem to think has no control over her actions or what comes out of her mouth she just reacts defensively to her environment, I think that is rather disrespectful because you are putting her under the category of wild animal.
What separates us from animals is the fact we have the ability to consider situations and choose what action to take rather than a primal reaction, Helen chooses to be who she is she knows what to say to wind people up and to say the most degrading thing possible to verbally hit someone where it hurts.
If you think Brian is a pitiful excuse of a man how should he have reacted to her to make him seem more of a man?

I think you need to come back to reality, you don't really understand human emotions do you? People who get attacked can't always control their emotions, we're not robots.

But Jale did nothing to Helen so what's that got to do with Helen getting attacked and not being able to control her emotions ?
She was rather vile to Harry when she came into the house this year just because she was going along with Mark's dislike of her (which he has since admitted he was wrong about).

Helen's a self-obsessed and nasty, nasty person!

I call bull****!

Brian stepped up at every opportunity and finally Helen stood her ground and was like fine you asked for it. He cant **** himself once she stands up to him and expect her to be like oh wait he stopped so I'll have to wait until he comes at me again.

She used the wrong words, but that aggressive prick asked for it and then tried to play the victim.

Laugh..........i nearly split my side!:laugh3:

Poor Helen, keeping herself to herself, finally reaches breaking point......

Fan fiction at its most inventive!!!!:laugh:

You can add Brian being viewed as the victim to that.