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Originally Posted by Zee
In my opinion, Linda made a point of turning everyone against Jim before he ever displayed any kind of behaviour that could possibly be misconstrued as misogynistic. People nominating him and being female doesn't prove anything other than the fact they all dislike him, because they're all part of the group that Linda has built around herself? Luisa made patronising and condescending comments about Dappy's intelligence, what's your point? They're as bad as each other. Just because you don't like Jim doesn't mean he deserves to be picked on. Life is not that black and white.
I don't care if Linda holds a grudge against Jim, she can do what she likes with her life, as I said, I'm judging by what I see on my TV and what I see is Linda aggressively skirting around why she hates Jim in order to get other people to hate him too but without ever acknowledging why she hates him. If she doesn't want it out in the open then why is she bringing it up at all? I think she wants closure on the whole thing, really, I think she wants to talk about it with Jim so she can put the whole thing to rest because clearly it's been winding her up for the last two decades. There is no obligation for Linda to clarify why she hates him, but if she's going to willingly bring it to our attention as viewers then it is to be expected that she will be perceived as bitchy and irrational if she won't reveal why she hates him so much.
Why am I foolish for "not seeing" that Jim was doing it on purpose? Linda wouldn't tell Luisa (or anyone) why she hates Jim so much so Luisa asked Jim and he told her to go ask Linda if it was about Frank Carson. Linda was angry and Jim realised his mistake straight away and first tried to pretend he didn't say it and then tried to apologise because where else would Luisa have gotten that information. Jim IS slimey and he IS horrible but so is Linda! What was the need for all the hysteria and crying? If that IS why she hates Jim so much then it's obviously been playing on her mind the entire time she's been in there or the mention of a bloody dressing room wouldn't have set her off into tears. And if that isn't why she hates Jim, then why did it upset her? So it clearly is why she hates him - so why would she have this agenda of actively hating him in the house if she wasn't prepared for it to eventually be brought up? What exactly are her motivations? Revenge. She wants to get revenge on Jim for embarrassing her all those years ago by making him look awful. I get it, I really do, but in the context of the Big Brother house, it makes her look spiteful and creates sympathy for Jim which is precisely why people have been supporting him. I think just about every Jim supporter I've come across on here has said at one time or another that they thought they would hate him but events in the house have changed their mind. Not because of Jim himself, but everyone around him trying to set off the guy with the spousal abuse in his past.
I've tried on numerous occasions to discuss this in a balanced way which I think is much more conducive to discussing Jim and Linda rather than trying to make Linda out to be a victim and Jim to be some kind of horrible bully when she's the one with the clique of people bloc voting on her behalf over some decades old feud that she doesn't even have the decency to explain to any of them?
Also, it wasn't "just" 20 or 25 pounds, Linda's husband was caught stealing money from the charity collection as part of a series of incidents, not one isolated incident, why on earth would there have been a secret camera filming the room if there had been no prior reason for one to be installed?
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Wow - what a wonderful post.
