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Originally Posted by Seraphim
(Post 6628763)
I am not making Jim out to be a poor vulnerable man. I am saying that I find Linda Nolan's behaviour completely unacceptable, and to excuse her behaviour because she is female is patronising and offensive.
I said that I personally would have found Linda's behaviour very difficult to handle. I wasn't implying that Jim would have spent his time crying in the loo like I'd have done, but just pointing out how that behaviour could affect a less resilient person than Jim.
The only reference I could find to Jim Davidson being a wife beater was an press article containing allegations by someone from whom he was divorced in 1988. It's now 2013. That was 25 years ago. People can change.
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I wasn't excusing her behaviour - I was showing some compassion. It's your call if you find that patronising and offensive but you are entitled to your opinion. We all have different levels of compassion within us.
He's a self confessed wife beater, by the way. 'Alleged' is no longer the case.
If you can't see his passive - aggressiveness and manipulative nature in the house then that is fine but it doesn't mean those of us who can are wrong either. His way of operating is far more subtle than anything Linda does and it takes a little more observation to see that he is in no way the poor confused 'what have I done now?' innocent that he makes himself out to be. |
