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I think Linda wanted to appoint herself as patron saint of women by provoking Jim into revealing his nasty side but because he's held out on her and she's become obsessed with trying to get him to flip out at her, it's just meant that while a lot of people are on her side whenever they clash, nobody actually seems to like her? Whereas if he'd been coming at her unprovoked instead of them being as bad as each other and she'd been bursting into tears instead of bitching about him, she'd be in a totally different position now and so would he.