I'd like to start off by saying I can relate to Shirin's story to a degree. In high school I was one of the outcasts (I know, who wasn't, right?) and the moment I walked through those doors and first class started, I was immediately pegged as an oddball. As I'm sure you all know, many (not all) teenagers in that environment will see someone else's different features/characteristics as grounds to push them out and make them feel unwanted. It's given me trust issues to this day. I can never tell when people are being genuine with me or if they're secretly talking bad about me behind my back, and that sucks because it's stood in the way of me reaching out and making more friends. So in short, I can understand what it's like to feel alone.

That's nowhere near as bad as Shirin's past of domestic abuse and bullying, but I understand the core of her emotions in that sense. I understood where Will was coming from UNTIL he started throwing out things like "no one back home is missing you", "no one loves you", "we have people who care about us but you got nothing", etc,.

That being said, I don't THINK Will would have watched last nights episode and felt proud of the way he acted. Recently in Dave Ball's AMA, he told us that no matter how much we think we know how the game and the people playing it work, we simply don't. None of us have been on the show, starved, exhausted and emotionally/mentally/physically worn out. I would hope to god that Will realized the error of his ways and approached Shirin down the road and gave her one hell of an apology. I'm sure we've all said very hurtful things under lesser circumstances. Again, I'm not saying what he did was excusable, because it simply isn't, rather that it was a huge mistake he made and though it shouldn't be forgotten, there is some understanding that needs to be had.