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Originally posted by GRiT
I agree with much of your response but I couldn't let this one go. In BB7 Spiral was accused of sexually harassing Aisleyne. I don't think the joke defense would have worked there and it shouldn't work here. She should have stopped when Dirk asked her to stop.
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LOL! Sorry, but that's without doubt the absolute worst comparison you ever could've picked! There'd be no need to 'accuse' Spiral, because a heck of a lot of us watched it live. On that score, there's no need for a jury - he'd be guilty without any hope of defence. Cleo may have decided to slip into that character (and dress, and wig, etc.) on the night in question to seduce Dirk. Or to tease and/or mock him. Or she may have just been messing with that character anyway, and just launched into the whole 'seduction' of Dirk on the spur of the moment. We'll probably never know the answer to that one, although we'll all have varying opinions, no doubt.
Still, all I/we saw was her launching straight into things. With Spiral, we saw his comments to other hm's over quite some time. We saw him prowling around the garden, in a manner that, given the way things panned out, most women will tell you was really rather scary. His appallingly bad rap verses may have lightened the load for some, but there was that sinister heavy breathing stuff going on, too. And every time he performed his naff rap as he was walking around the garden, he finished with what most women will recognise as his 'sex face'. I'm not going to expand on that any further and get myself into trouble with the Mods. But I think a lot of the female members here will get what I mean.
But even that was amusing at first, because it just added to the general patheticness of the whole scenario. But thinking back, after the way he was bordering on physical violence when she rejected him, it took on a whole different light. I certainly wouldn't ever want to be alone anywhere with Spiral. The mere thought of it absolutely terrifies me, in fact. He's clearly obsessive, delusional, and emotionally unstable. I actually quite liked him, up until that point. But he's not the type of person any woman would feel safe around. And I really can't abide Aisleyne. She’s right up there in the top five or ten worst hm's ever, in my book. But she never deserved the treatment she received from Spiral. And although we get it every series now, I think that really was one situation that should've lead to police intervention. I've only ever felt that way over one other BB incident, which was the night sicktor physically assaulted Emma and when Jason was threatening Marco (whether he was intensely irritating or not).
So yeah, sorry for the essay. But I don't see how you can compare the two incidents at all. One was clearly a joke, whether it backfired or not. The other was something altogether more sinister. Meh, you'd have been on safer ground if you'd used Michelle & Stu as an example instead!
