[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by letmein

The guy has obvious brain damage. He beat up his girlfriend. I don’t find him entertaining at all. It’s sad and exploitive. Do I think he’s homophobic? No idea, but what he said was awful. It wouldn’t be something I would personally throw him out of the house for but if he used a racial slur, he would have been thrown out, so, if we were to go by past unacceptable behavior, he deserved to get the boot for it. That being said, I view him as a tragic figure. He should never have been brought into the house begin with. The guy barely knows where he is and does nothing. It’s not funny and it’s not entertaining. It’s disgraceful on the show’s part. They knew what they were doing putting him in there. The ratings are still terrible so it really wasn’t worth it in the end.

That is a real load of bigotry and conjecture. Wow

It's 2025 dude

Stop please

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynamo

That is a real load of bigotry and conjecture. Wow

It's 2025 dude

Stop please

So much hatred for a guy with well known mental health issues. Love wins? Ok cool.

[Jordan.]

Originally Posted by Swan

So much hatred for a guy with well known mental health issues. Love wins? Ok cool.

Where was the hatred towards Mickey in that comment? It's a critique about people like yourself for viewing someone you know has mental health issues as your entertainment.

[Swan]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

Where was the hatred towards Mickey in that comment? It's a critique about people like yourself for viewing someone you know has mental health issues as your entertainment.

More about the lack of empathy.

BIB. We're, and have always been guilty of that when it comes to shows like BB

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Swan

So much hatred for a guy with well known mental health issues. Love wins? Ok cool.

Yep! No empathy whatsoever. What a surprise.

[BBXX]

Originally Posted by Kate!

Yep! No empathy whatsoever. What a surprise.

“Straight, white man who says homophobic and sexually inappropriate stuff is deserving of empathy” says Reform supporter in most predictable opinion ever.

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by BBXX

“Straight, white man who says homophobic and sexually inappropriate stuff is deserving of empathy” says Reform supporter in most predictable opinion ever.

Everyone is always worthy of empathy. It's.not the same as sympathy.

[BBXX]

Originally Posted by Kate!

Everyone is always worthy of empathy. It's.not the same as sympathy.

The literal meaning of empathy is the understand or share the feeling of or have an affinity with a person. I don’t have that with someone who engages in homophobic and sexist remarks.

I have sympathy and pity for him because I think he should have gotten help a long time ago but that doesn’t mean I have to excuse a growing list of bad behaviour, especially at the age of 72.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by BBXX

The literal meaning of empathy is the understand or share the feeling of or have an affinity with a person. I don’t have that with someone who engages in homophobic and sexist remarks.

I have sympathy and pity for him because I think he should have gotten help a long time ago but that doesn’t mean I have to excuse a growing list of bad behaviour, especially at the age of 72.

…even in the short time of knowing anything of him in the BB house…?..we’ve still seen with the age thing that he doesn't really consider any impact or upset of anything he says and so that ‘learning from’ just isn’t happening in that he upset and offended Ella so shortly after saying…yes, yes I understand etc when BB gave him the official warning post upsetting JoJo…

…with regards to empathy…?…I can understand that, that can wear a bit thin for some/many as well because empathy is also a two way thing and Mickey does speak words of ‘I never want to upset’ but then proceeds and continues to upset…and those people that he’s offending/upsetting…?…they also don’t live in a world of that moment in BB…they also have p life experiences and attachments etc that are equally deserving of empathy and understanding…and what can often happen in BB and similar reality…is that thoughts for others can get dismissed in focusing on one particular person …

[BBXX]

Originally Posted by Swan

So much hatred for a guy with well known mental health issues. Love wins? Ok cool.

Where was the hatred? At worst it was a post full of pity. The guy needs therapy but it’s a shame at 72 he’s only just figured that out.

People around him failed him really which is sad but he’s too old to still not be taking accountability for his own actions and it doesn’t mean everyone around him needs to excuse awful behaviour.

[BBXX]

Originally Posted by Swan

So much hatred for a guy with well known mental health issues. Love wins? Ok cool.

I missed this. LOL.

Not you critiquing others for not considering mental health issues when you outright called Ali fan's 'nutters' last year.

Real advocates for mental health issues don't call other people nutters so you can stop pretending.