[Seraphim]

Originally Posted by troynuncdicit

So basically Linda's not allowed to hold a grudge with Jim Davidson. How dare that evil witch. Besides, Jim's the one who's been making incredibly patronizing and condescending comments all the time to the women. Almost every incident with Jim starts with him making an offensive comment to a woman (Linda or Luisa mainly), the woman understandably getting defensive, and then Jim muttering away about how surprise surprise, there's another argument and he's somehow in the wrong. It's incredibly irritating to watch and must be even more irritating to live with, but I'll wait for someone to tell me that Jim has freedom of speech and he's allowed to say whatever he wants to say (even though this logic would also apply to Linda and Luisa and everyone who has a problem with Jim.)

Actually, Linda was given many opportunities by Jim to make specific complaints. I'm a woman myself, and if someone continually made offensive/patronising comments, I'd probably allow a fair few to pass, because none of us are perfect, and everyone makes remarks which undermine the opposite sex - Linda makes them too. If it began to get too much, I'd sit them down and explain why certain comments were offensive. However, unless I have missed something, I'd have to disagree that most of the incidents were because of Jim.

Can you explain how it was offensive when Dappy went into the bedroom and told people that Jim wanted to go to bed? Because that was one of the many occasions when Linda loudly made an unnecessarily nasty remark aimed at Jim.

Anther time, Luisa was chatting about being a single parent, and Jim asked if she didn't miss having a man in her life (or something to that effect.) Linda went straight for his jugular with a foul-mouthed stream of insults which were totally uncalled for in the face of a perfectly legitimate conversational query.

If a woman (or anyone else) wishes to be treated with respect, maybe she should think about how best to earn it.

So because I don't like national treasure Jim Davidson, I'm somehow fooled by Linda, who was understandably upset with someone she doesn't like humiliating her dead husband. Glad that's been established.

I didn't mention anything about your personal feelings about Jim. But perhaps it does explain your inability to be objective and fair.