Okay - here's the thing: I am not a big fan of Abby's. These are my reasons:
I don't find her conversations interesting. I get irritated by her constant sexual teasing of the men without any follow-through.
I find she has absolutely no proper relationship with any of the other women in the house, ie. she only truly interacts with half the house. Her belief that she is the messianic representative of her country after having been chosen from millions, and her continual ramblings about her genius drive me mad.
All this plonked together means I see her as manipulative and false, not humble. Especially when she told Bayo he was her favourite while doing their ironing in The Sin Bin! What was she talking about?
However, and this is the pip in my banana so to speak - Big Brother is a game, and Abby's playing it, isn't she? I mean - she plays Alex's willy like a finely-tuned fiddle. And so the real dilemma arises in this. Is she just playing Big Brother, or is this her game in her real life?
You know, some of Abby's friends have made contact with me, claiming I have something personal against her and that she's really a good friend. Fair enough. I'm sure she is.
But she's also in Big Brother and the Abby I know is the one on the box. The one who I see doing all the above stuff. In fact, I have decided it must be very tough being close to a housemate. A friend, family member and so on. Mandy Hill's mom confirmed this last year when I interviewed her.
Anyway, the thing is - the observations we the public make are based on what we see. We do not know the housemates personally and the context in which we get to know them is - no matter what anyone says - unrealistic and different from real life.
We can only speculate on and give opinions on what these peeps are really like. In a way they are allowing us to assess our own attitudes towards various types of people. Through them we think about our opinions and stuff.
So, in my opinion, Abby's game-playing in the house is something she does in real life. Why? She has never told us otherwise.
She hasn't plonked herself in the diary room and told us the truth about who she is, what's she's up to, why she's only speaking to the men, why she's leading Alex on, what her strategy is, etc. Is she aware of all this, and if so she doesn't need to share it with us if she doesn't want, but then she can't be upset when people think she's a cocktease.
Which brings me to the next issue. Does it matter that she's teasing the men? I mean, in one way she's actually proving what twits some men can be - falling for the girl who's all over them. Does it matter that she has not established any really worthy relationships with the women in the house? No, I don't suppose it does. Or does it?
Which brings me to why I am not an Abby fan. I just find it depressing that some women trying to get ahead do it by rubbing their bodies all over the men, instead of using their brain. Do some women believe that the only power they have in any given situation is based on sex and getting men physically excited?
This is what's created my opinion on Abby's behaviour. I don't think she's actually consciously playing this game. If she were she would have told us. Surely? And if she isn't I can only assume that what she's doing is going to her most confident and safe place.