Love Island 17

[AngeloMysterioso]

Let's go!

And no not even jack did it, Laura dumped him the first time. Jack was bad but he didn't do what Alex did, no one has done what Alex did,

Don't you recall Alexandra crying after the first time? Her disinterest the second time? Alex convincing her to try again?

It's not Alex not fancying Alexandra that has got peoples backs up, it's his attitude. He's arrogant and entitled, and didn't really treat Alexandra like she's got feelings. He doesn't come across as socially awkward he comes across as rude. He completely sacked her off for Laura and then expected her to be grateful and take him back with loving arms when laura2 didn't want him, then skirted round a her questions and dumped her, whilst still insisting 5 minutes before he wanted to see how things went.

I seem to remember everyone hated Wes at the time, and still no one is voting for him and Megan, they are consistently in the bottom and are only in there because of the contestants votes. Plus whilst he treated Laura like shit, it was clear that things were a bit rocky and it wasn't that he never liked her, it was that he went off her, whilst Alex never liked Alexandra. He didn't come across as arrogant in the same way Alex does.

Ellie might have played Alex but she didn't string him along for as long as Alex did, she didn't try and manipulate his feelings in the same way or justify herself the same way Alex did. The difference between Alex and Alex3s reactions is that Alex1 was angry Ellie didn't like him, whilst Alex3 was upset Alex didn't like her, that is a huge difference.

I also think saying he's not used to the tye of women on love island is a bullshit excuse. Firstly, they are just normal people, particularly girls like Alexandra who seem genuine, intelligent just basically attractive, they can be treated the same way any woman shou be treated. Secondly he is a Dr, he deals with people of all types all day every. Medical school is hardly full of people sitting there playing dungeons and dragons every night. There are attractive, sociable people in med school and he's not a recluse. If he has slept with 30 women as he claims and had a threesome he's hardly this shy, socially awkward boy. He's just a bit of a prat, I think he's held to higher standards maybe than previous contestants because he should be empathetic and intelligent as a Dr and tbh he just isn't.

Hayley didnt sack of eyal then pick him in eviction, Eyal picked Hayley bizarrely in the eviction because he was too scared to pick kendall and step on adams toes. Also no one liked Hayley so you can't use Hayley as an example

Sure, I agree Hayley tried to do it to eyal, and she was roundly slammed on here and she was removed from the island very quickly as the public disliked her immensely. 🤷‍♀️

I don't get your point, are you really trying to say Alex is like Hayley? I thought you were trying to defend him,

Ugh, forgot about Hayley.

Hayley was just THE WORST. Horrible behavior.

Viennasky - of course Adam received much worse. He had the involvement of WA after his gas lighting and abusive behaviour. And there were pages and pages here of hatred for Adam.

As for Hayley, she's had her fair share of abuse, even when she came out she was getting grief over her behaviour.

Most of the islanders have been on the receiving end of negative comments, with the exception of Jack and Dani. Part of the problem with Dr Alex is that he was portrayed as this professional guy, all round decent guy, bit of a saint, unlucky in love. None of the others were put up on a pedestal so his fall from grace has been more disappointing and shocking. The first hint of a nasty side/slip in character was with Ellie and very slowly the Mr Nice Guy image has unravelled. He's behaved just the same as the rest of them but he's always acted like he's better than them.

viennasky

Seriously, do you know Alex?

Everyone on LI that's had led someone on or treated someone badly has had it mentioned on here. All received a fairly hard time.

But it's moved on and currently it's Alex being a dick. So he is getting the same as the others.

He didn't try to have sex with her or anything . And how do you know he wasn't trying yo think things through while he was with her to try and make it work?

He took her hand and put it on his dick.

And how do you know he wasn't just stringing her along? You seem so convinced he is a good guy. The truth is that non of us know . We are all watching the same programme, but will all get different conclusions.

I'm not sure it's the same. Seems much worse to me.

That's your opinion. Go back through the threads. I didn't even watch this series until a few episodes before Adam left. Around the Casa amour villa was when I started watching.

However I knew who Adam was. Because it was in the papers and loads of people on Facebook, at work, on TV were talking about how appalling his behaviour was.

The hand in the shorts thing is one thing I find a bit confusing. It doesn't fit with how he comes across the rest of the time, or how he seems to shy away from too much physical contact.

Anyone watching LI Australia?

I'm not sure it's the same. Seems much worse to me

I think that's because you and another two posters are clearly very sensitive to any criticism of him. You mitigate and justify everything he does, making people explain over and over again why they think his treatment of women is bad, trying to throw other housemates in as a way to try to mitigate it.

It's as odd as it gets, it's clearly not you think men should be able to abuse women without comment, as you are throwing wes, jack and Adam under the bus, it just seems to be you think this man should be able to do it

You must know you're in the very extreme minority in your views. A look at any other on line platform shows that public opinion is very heavily weighted against this man and his treatment of this woman. And yet here you are defending him with all your might.

The question is why?

Babyshark I asked that earlier 😁 Yes I am, what do you think?

With the hand thing, it’s about the least intimate of sexual type things isn’t it? Especially in the dark, could be explained away by simply being horny

Bluntness if I'm one of those you're referring to then you actually couldn't be further off the mark.

I'm not sensitive to any criticism of Alex, if you'd care to read my posts properly you'll see I've criticised him myself. I haven't made anyone explain anything over and over again, I thought it was a discussion we were having. I've attempted a few times today to discuss other topics but other people keep bringing it back to Alex.

Now I'm odd because I'm stating an opinion that differs somewhat from yours? I've not tried to mitigate anything, simply offered a different perspective.

I'll say it again, Alex handled things very badly after the recoupling. He should never have tried to get Alexandra back. He should have been honest and gone the friendship route. Is that clear enough for you?

I don't get the vitriol for Alex either & think they're pretty much all as bad as each other

Daisy yes you're right, that's quite possibly what it was. He looked extremely embarrassed and uncomfortable when the boys raised it.

I don't get the vitriol for Alex either & think they're pretty much all as bad as each other

And they have all had vitrol when they have been behaving like dicks

I wonder if Alex is gay but hasn't figured it out yet? Is that possible?

Even when girls have literally thrown themselves at him he's not been interested. He fakes interest because he knows that he only gets to stay in if he's part of a couple, but when they try to get intimate he pushes them away. He's done it with every girl he's been coupled with.
He's actually scared of intimacy. With girls.

It's rare for a hetero male to want to want to take things slow and go at my own pace

There's a story there.