[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Seraphim

And what is happening to Jim is an actual case of bullying. I suggested that you read the Wikipedia entry. Here's an extract:

"One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power. Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment... and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets. Justifications and rationalizations for such behavior sometimes include differences of class, race, religion, gender, sexuality, appearance, behavior, strength, size or ability. If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing."

..I think that we're going to have to agree to disagree on the 'bullying' because I don't see Jim being excluded from anything, let alone being singled out for any 'difference' in him as you've posted...he's excluded himself recently and I'm not saying that certain housemates don't bitch because they do, I can't think of many BBs where housemates don't do that in that pressure cooker environment but I still don't see anything that could be described as bullying....