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In Nikki's defence, she's almost 15 years younger than Dawn, so she might arguably be cut slightly more slack when it comes to employing somewhat adolescent emotional blackmail. Arguably.
Fair point. The age difference is something I hadn't really factored in.
Well, if the DS story about Nikki having previously suffered from a severe eating disorder is even halfway true (and, while I suspect her friend was exaggerating the 'OMG!! SHE MIGHT KILL HERSLEF!1!!' aspects, I see no reason to doubt the central assertion), then there's perhaps more to her contamination fears than simply being precious. Which may not make them any less forgivable - or funny - but may frame them in terms other than simply Nikki being a spoilt princess.
By precious I mean as in valuable, unique. Not as in stroppy, or touchy.
I suppose. But she seemed to take a lot of pleasure in talking to the others about Dawn's BO, the kind of pleasure one gets by being rude behind someone's back. The contamination fears are only one element of the "poor lost little girl" aura she occasionally projects.
BB most likely cuts and edits to accentuate that aspect of her anyway. I'm probably a little prejudiced against her because I percieve it to be an act and she may actually genuinely be like that. It just annoys me.
But it being an act isn't my problem (hell it's BB after all, everyone's acting). But it's that it all seems so overblown with Nicki, and yet everyone flocks round her like mother hens.
Still, as you say, past emotional trauma should be taken into account when considering a housemate's negative traits (indeed there may be traumatic events lurking in Mikey's or Sezer's past which, in part, account for their misogyny).
In what way defensive? Because the group would perceive Dawn's annoyance as directed at them for choosing Nikki over her? Maybe. I think there's an age gradient in the House, certainly, with a strong, if implicit, understanding that perceived childishness is the preserve of the young.
Perhaps defensive is the wrong word. But I was suggesting that maybe they felt like Dawn should be able to handle the double-blow of nomination and not getting her case because she's percieved to be more emotionally mature, and level-headed. So when she didn't live up to that expectation they were less than sympathetic. |
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