Originally Posted by Dangerman:
“Why does Jodie play the sympathy card - probably the same reason as Michael and anyone else who plays it - because they believe they are the one deserving the sympathy the other party is receiving .
Unfortunately we can't really discuss Michael's reasons yet attacking Jodie is seen as perfectly acceptable - twice last night he stated that ( verbally ) attacking her was his best moment !!!!! She never brought up the subject - he did ! She refused to stand up to applaud him yet both Pete and Traci do exactly the same to Chantelle and that's 'acceptable' , all bar George continued sitting when Pete left , no one criticises them for that .
Jodie may or may not deserve sympathy as much as she thinks she does - I think she deserves some for her treatment within the hosue but surely more than that she also deserves to be given the same basic rights as everyone else - something this forum in particular hasn't afforded her”
The point is that Jodie seems to still be in a time warp from the occasion that she was shouted at by Michael and others. They did go over the top and it actually made Michael look stupid for shouting at the poor girl. But she doesn''t seem to have been able to put it into perspective or learned anything from it, e.g. why she was bullied in the first place, and surely in the last two weeks she must have spoken to friends, family and her agent who ought to have given her some good advice.
If she watched the rest of the show, she might have also learned how other people dealt with bullying and deflected it. Traci just let Pete have his say and put up no resistance, the submissive, conciliatory approach. Chantelle deflected insults with a jokey "let's pretend I agree with him" approach combined with a pretence that she didn't understand what he was doing to her. Both of them emerged unscathed and with the sympathy of the viewers.
Jodie continues to maintain her victim status thinking it earns sympathy when it does the opposite. She is supposedly highly intelligent but her whole approach to appearing on BB suggests that she has no idea how to present herself, how to change her image, or what she is doing wrong.