Taylor’s not my favorite player but I think you’re mistaking miscalculated attempts to be nice that were misinterpreted for actual negative behavior.
Given the context we have now, she is a person with a deep inner hurt with defense mechanisms that get taken the wrong way. Whose genuine attempts to reach out and show empathy are landing wrong because of a lack of social skills.
Taylor started out on both wrong feet with her overly-sexualized, barely-legally-covered Pageant Girl persona that screamed "LOOK AT ME, I'M BETTER THAN YOU!" attitude that was an instant turnoff for the other women. She was so obnoxious about it not just in the first episode, but was still doing it days later... even on eviction night when she prattled on about "if I leave, my clothes are going with me".
Honestly, why would she keep harping on her damn clothes? She's tall and skinny and most of the other women wouldn't have a hope of fitting into these outfits even if they wanted to. She must realize that, but she keeps dangling them as a showing-off behavior. Maybe guys don't see this, but it's a fact that much of the time, women don't dress up to please guys. They do it to show up other women as a way of out-competing them for both attention and to say, "I/my SO can afford this. It's prettier/more expensive than yours, so that makes me BETTER than you."
That's the vibe I got from Taylor the first night and an impression like that is going to be damned hard for her to overcome both with some of the viewing audience and with her fellow housemates.
She needs to read the room better - pay attention to body language and voice... all the subtle nuances that should tell her if people are sincere and not just saying what they know she wants to hear. If she'd spent more time at first trying to get to know the women rather than putting on a barely-there outfit and draping herself on the pool table in sexualized poses, the other women might take her a bit more seriously.
I'm not discounting her diary room speeches. Maybe if she said some of this to the other houseguests, they might begin to regard her in a more favorable light. I know deception is crucial in this game, but when you start out with a shallow fake persona, people are going to assume that's all you are unless you get over it and start acting like a real person.
Even though Daniel and Nicole treated Taylor like crap, I'm still oddly interested in seeing how far they get in the game.
I'm also interested in seeing if this "Leftovers" alliance can succeed in their plan to shake up the game, even though I only really like four of its members individually (Turner, Kyle, Brittany, and Michael).
I'm not impressed with Daniel and Nicole. I'll admit that he's entertaining at times, and he had a point about Taylor apologizing. But he and Nicole are not willing to give Taylor the chance that she's beginning to realize she needs to take, to come across as a real person, not her pageant persona.
Right now, I like Michael and want him to win. He seems pleasant and not cruel to anyone, and has done very well in the Veto competitions.
Turner... okay, he's cute in a weird two-toned way. But his obsession with Pooch is making him unlikeable. I wonder how soon he's going to turn on Jasmine.
Kyle doesn't give much of an impression. Maybe later, but so far all I get when I see him is being reminded of the guy who played teenage James Potter in the Harry Potter movies (hairstyle and glasses, most likely).
Brittany is beginning to be annoying - not for what she's said, but for her facial expressions (shallow, yeah, but that's my current impression).
As for the others... Jasmine, just shut up. Don't speak. High-pitched, squeaky voices just irritate the hell out of me.
Speaking of Jasmine, here's a question: Does that wheeled contraption she's using to get around really squeak like that, or is it just a sound effect that's been added?
