[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Zee

The people who are openly laughing at the idea of Jim possibly being bullied are not being objective about this because they hate Jim so much. For the umpteenth time: I think Jim is a horrible man. But whether or not someone is a victim of bullying doesn't hinge on whether or not you like them as a person. Adults can be bullied. Anyone can be bullied. It doesn't matter what your age, post code, gender or personality is, anyone can be bullied by anyone for any reason. There is a group of people who are making a point of excluding one individual, Jim. And if you don't think that proves anything, then why are they doing it to Liz too? Because they're acting in a mob manner. What Linda doesn't seem to realise is that if she's successful in getting Jim evicted, or if Liz finally goes, they're all going to have to start nominating each other anyway. She'd better hope that Sam goes in this next eviction or they're all going to be turning on her sooner or later.

..I don't think that's true though..I did read through this thread this morning and thought a lot about whether it was actually bullying because I would never condone that with anyone...the thing is that Jim equally excludes himself from the group and to an extent, I think Liz does...there are also clashes of personality and often in a group there can be one person who isn't liked as well by several people because of there own personality...but that isn't bullying...I guess that I go on how it's defined in the schools I have worked in and in the first instance, someone has to feel bullied...I presume that Jim doesn't if it hasn't been shown..?...