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What's wrong with asking someone if they don't miss having a partner? What is wrong with discussing different parenting styles and views on spanking? Where did you see Jim stating that he only wanted to cook for the men? I remember Luisa saying she didn't want to cook for certain people, but insisting on cooking for others, so Jim suggested that someone different cook for the men, just so it didn't get too petty. So what? How is that offensive?
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Luisa wasn't even talking about being a single mother and Jim's comment implied that she needed one. He surely wouldn't ask a single father if they miss having a woman. The sexism was clear as day when he turned Luisa not wanting to cook for him and Lionel into him offering to cook for the men only.
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What have the nominations got to do with anything? Just about everyone seems to nominate Liz too, and she's nothing like Jim.
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Well, they show that Linda's far from the only one sick of Jim.
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If Linda felt that strongly about Jim, then she shouldn't have come into the house. She could have asked to defer her invitation until the next show.
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Did she have any way of knowing Jim would be going in there?
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Oh for goodness' sake. Luisa was asking why Linda was being so foul towards him, and he simply said she'd have to ask Linda. Then, he said to ask about Frank Carson's dressingroom. What's the big deal? How is that malicious and underhand? Linda's a blinking battleaxe and as hard as nails. Once she'd got a nice big group on her bed, she was back bitching about something else. As far as Jim appearing to backtrack and deny that he'd said to Luisa to ask about the dressingroom, we don't know what was going on in his head, but if, as it appeared, he was trying to wriggle out of responsibility, then he wouldn't be the first person to tell a porky pie to avoid a scene.
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It's malicious and underhanded because brought it up to humiliate her deceased husband. How many times does that have to be stated before you get it?
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Jim didn't 'send Luisa to ask'. He told Luisa that if she wanted to know, then she'd have to ask Linda herself. There is a subtle difference there, and I think that is why Jim initially denied Linda's first accusations - because she wasn't actually getting it right.
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His exact words were "You should ask her. Ask her about Frank Carson's dressing room." Which is exactly what Linda accused him of doing. Your fan fiction does have a nice spin to it though, I'll give you that.
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Since you cannot read minds, you cannot tell if the recipients of these comments found them patronising and conscending or not, because they didn't say. However, the only people who'd find such innocuous comments to be patronising or condescending would be people who have an enormous chip on their shoulder, or an inferiority complex.
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If they didn't find them patronizing or condescending, they wouldn't have reacted the way they did. And they actual value themselves as women so they're not going to let a known misogynist make subtle and sly digs at them.