[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Stormy

To answer your question. I would say that I like Hopkins. To give you some background about me, I didn't know the history of a single person in the house at the beginning of the show. In fact, I had only heard of two housemates...Patsy (because I watched Lethal Weapon) and Perez (who I thought was a harmless fashion blogger...boy was I wrong!!!!).

No, I absolutely don't think Hopkins is infallible and I absolutely disagree with a lot of her view points (in fact some of them disgust me). However, I do like Hopkins, in the house, because;

1. She doesn't pretend to take a moral high ground...she says what she believes and, right or wrong, makes no excuses for it.
2. She is not offended or rattled by any criticism by any of the housemates...she can take as good as she gets.
3. When Perez went mental the first few days and made the housemates extremely uncomfortable, everyone else was too timid/scared to deal with him...she stepped up and had the balls to stand up to him, when no one else did. It calmed him down, but she took the brunt of it and is still paying for it now, while the other housemates who dislike Perez hid behind her.
4. Her interactions with Alicia...while I don't agree with how rude she was to her, in the end she forced Alicia to be stronger...and...instead of being angry when Alicia finally stood up to her and rightfully called her a gob ****e...Hopkins not only didn't get angry, but she gave Alicia her full respect for doing so.

I can also respect your point of view though I don't agree with it. I think she has a lot of influence on the others and I don't like how they are starting to gang up on Cheggers whose only crime seems to be being a nice man. She picked on Alicia and now she is picking on Cheggers. There is starting to be a lot of eye rolling when walks past or speaks, to me that isnt being a straight talker, thats being nasty for the sake of it. She does take the moral high ground, she thinks she is right.

I do think this is a very interesting conversation to have with those willing to answer the questions I posed.