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Originally Posted by mrflibble
The only people that played the sympathy card were Pav and Helen. There was plenty of bullying, I went through the exact same thing at school and that happened because the people in question decided I was too fat and ugly to have any respect. I did nothing to provoke them. Of course those people would keep themselves away from the group of people who were calling Jale a slug 5 minutes after meeting her and talking about how much they hated Chris 5 minutes after meeting him. Helen's gang took themselves away from that group as much as they took themselves away from Helen's group, the difference was Helen's group was looking down on them and laughing behind their back's and the other group looked to each other for support.
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Sorry to hear you were bullied but I didn't see any bullying, forceful opinion. Jale was an odd ball, I am not sure what it is about her but she does have an awful way of projecting herself and she seems to attract negativeness, She did lurk everywhere and was always listening in on conversations and rightly or wrongly that is why she was nicknamed 'the slug' of course we didn't see much of it but from what the supposed 'cool gang' was saying is that she was doing it a lot now that would annoy anyone. Yes and people in a group can be unaware of how joking comments can harm people with low confidence.
Once she stopped creeping around she was accepted into the main group. I don't agree that they were looking down on them, yes there were jokes but you could easily argue that they brought it on themselves.
I agree that Pav milked it to the max but hey, he was up against it and had to do anything to survive, to be honest I have never seen a housemate lose confidence so rapidly after going in the house. I don't see any difference between how Pav was treated in the beginning when he certainly had an agenda and nobody trusted him with the likes of Jale, once they both changed their ways and stopped acting freaky they were accepted with open arms.
If what you said about the likes of Ashliegh forming a group for self preservation when the perceived threat had diminished then surely their behavior would have changed, it didn't. Each time Ashliegh lost an ally to point fingers and judge from their Ivory Tower she chose another like minded soul.
It makes them feel better and helps them operate in this frightening world that they live in, their perception.