Anita has clearly become a huge threat to the forum favourite so anything she says or does will be dissected in as negative a way as possible .
Kellie is too loud , peter was too accepting, anita is too grumpy about it . It's like a mash up of The Three Bears story .

This^^^

Baby Bear Jay of course is juuust right

I thought I logged in to a BB thread.

Easy mistake to make. This forum ain't what it used to be.

Georgialocks is just wants to be in a different fairy tale and be a princess

so how the hell is Anita meant to fix this problem in a few weeks

Exactly. Not worth feeding these threads. I am sure we are going to see many more popping up.

sadly

Pixie never had criticism like that.
Come on Pixie!

Really and truly not my style. Just something I noticed when it was on.
I don't make threads for attention or to make trouble, as you may see from my history.

Again, I never caer who wins, truly. Plus if I really was the sort who did care so much, would people be worried about two people on ITT?

This is what makes me laugh at these forums, people presume I am being nasty, so posters end up saying a lot worse towards me, and I am presuming they themselves think they are saints.

Okay, got it, so I am horrible for noticing something about Anita, but all comments towards me are fair game.

BTW, I wasn't flattering myself, just highlighting what any competitor knows.

Again, I will say it one more time, I do not care who wins, don't even have a favourite really. Possibly Georgia on her dance quality.

This is just something I had noticed before and then on ITT again tonight.

Could it be you have noticed something that wasn't there. I surely didn't and nor did a lot of people on this forum. In fact not even at home or work not one person mentioned what you have brought up.

She probably would need an awful lot longer time
than she's got on this show.

If Anita can't take criticism, Jay can't dance, Jeremy Vine is performing The Dying Swan this Saturday and this argument is worthy of a QC barrister.

I would have thought the fact that she said 'it's good advice, it's fine', repeatedly, when the crowd were booing Len last week ...

The fact that she said 'any advice those 4 amazing dancers give me, I will take on board and keep on working' after her quickstep ...

The fact that she said 'no it's fine, it's absolutely fine when Claudia said it was sad Len didn't like her rumba

And the fact that she actively stated 'bring on the critiquing' during Q/S week suggests ... drum roll ...

That she's actually pretty good at taking criticism? Actually probably one of the best out of the remaining contestants who routinely get criticism? Usually remains upbeat, is occasionally a little disappointed, never gets indignant/outraged/resentful/hopelessly deflated.

Nah. There must be some glint of Criticism Intolerance in her eyes that I'm missing because I'm too busy gawping at Gleb trying to do the box splits.

If she had maintained a rictus grin, you'd have called her self-satisfied and complacent.
If she'd burst into tears, you'd have said she was attention-seeking.
If she'd worn a paper bag over her head whilst Craig was speaking you would probably have said she was both. (It's all in the body language innit.)

I'm actually a dahncer myself and was unaware of Para 2(1)(b) of The International Treaty On Response To Dance Criticism that stated you must maintain a fake smile and not betray any sadness that you haven't performed your best after a performance.

So clearly I can't comment on how a dancer should respond, but as a human she did a distinctly good job.

I know some have said it before, maybe there may have been others agreeing before it got pretty hardcore on here.

It was just her face towards Craig when he spoke and then after the score.

Now I will say this, as I said previously when we was given a critique, maybe on stage or off, we were supposed to just take it with a smile and good grace, so if you even rolled your eyes or gave a look it was taken in a bad way.

But everyone sees everything different as I have said numerous times, observation bias comes into it too if you like or dislike someone.

I will say I have liked Anita and while her technique is now a lot poorer compared to those left, I have often praised her performance skills and how much she gives over to the dance. So please believe this is not anti Anitia, especially to be pro someone else, as I said it really, REALLY is not my style of doing things.

I like the way OP kept saying I don't have a favourite and then pulls out a name who was in the dance off on Saturday. This is what we predicted.

Wait, what? I was accused of it being for Jay, now Georgia. As I said I don't have a favourite, I like Jay, but voted Georgia and Kellie this weekend as I didn't like Jay's rhumba.

We predicted. I have to laugh, it's like a giant conspiracy theory on this forum.

Out of who is left and that included Helen, I don't mind who wins.

I wasn't saying you're nasty. Presumptuous, yes. Nasty, no.
The BIB is a case in point.

I think I will give up posting in this forum in general.

Every single post on any celeb has to have hidden intent and agenda for another celeb. It cannot just be your thoughts on it and that's that.. Oh no, if you say something about Anita it's because you want Georgia/Jay to win and are threatened.

If you say something about most it's a big thing, well except poor Kellie, she gets a lot of it, oh and Peter was just fair game. I mean he could say he was donating his fee to a child's hospice and people would say what an ass he was! BTW, I didn't like his dancing, so am not bitter about him going before anyone says it.

Yeah, I think I'm pretty much done on here.
Back to the safer parts of the forum in the future.

I may have quoted your post, but yours wasn't actually the worst, just got caught up in it.

Maybe it was, however haven't people said the same about Katie, quite often and other's along the way?

Brava!

... and you received this "critique" in front of millions of TV viewers - a tiny proportion of whom were analysing every miniscule facet of your body language in order to gauge your sincerity, gratitude and degree of personal humility - did you?

Frankly, whilst I accept that the public critique of the dancing in Strictly is an integral part of this type of programme, in most other (real life) contexts I would say that criticism of someone's work in front of others is actually highly inappropriate - not to mention unprofessional - and to further judge a person on their emotional response to such criticism goes beyond what could be described as reasonable or constructive behaviour.

Because Helen's fans are throwing their toys out of their prams and squealing in protest. The only person they can think of to blame is Anita. Unfortunately, for Helen's few fans, Anita has far more fans who voted for her and there's nothing they can do but moan long and loud about it.