[Macie Lightfoot]

Originally Posted by Zee

I honestly couldn't care less if she holds a grudge against him or not, I don't know her life, all I can judge is what I see on my TV screen. What I see on my TV is Linda forming a circle around her to bitch about Jim and make him an outcast. What I see on my TV is Linda telling people that she's hated Jim for years but never actually talking about why she hates him so much. What I see on my TV is Linda being petty, because she's refused to reveal why she hates Jim, leaving him to guess and when he brings up why he thinks she hates him, she bursts into tears and still refuses to talk about it.

Luisa, Linda and Jim are all as bad as each other. Trying to make one or more of them out to be better than another is like discussing the merits of, I don't know, one serious crime against another serious crime - they're both still bad! Jim's a grumpy old man with a nasty past, yes, but he's not let any of that out in the house. Maybe he's playing a game and he's still the person he's always been - but he hasn't let his demons from the past out in the house. Do you know who has? Linda. She's held a grudge for twenty years and she hasn't been able to let it go. She brought it into the house with her as her second piece of baggage and it's been lying out there in the house for the last two and a half weeks. I don't care about what happened in their past, I care about their present, and Linda is the one looking for fights and being horrible, not Jim. Who's the one who is isolated in the house and being bitched about and who is the one surrounded by people and who is doing the bitching? And why is Linda surrounded by people? Because she keeps running her mouth about Jim without ever revealing what actually caused her to feel that way. Jim's kept a dignified silence about the whole thing, all he's ever said was "ask her about Frank Carson's dressing room" when asked by Luisa. Linda can't justify her hatred of Jim because her husband was found guilty and caught on camera.

Jim's done enough to make himself an outcast. Like I said, he constantly makes patronizing and condescending comments to women and sets himself up to be the victim when they react defensively to something he said. It's comments about Luisa not having a man in her life, how she doesn't have to spank her daughter, telling her to shut up and enjoy her argument, implying that she apologized without actually being sorry, and only wanting to cook for the men that make people not like him. Casey's the only girl who hasn't nominated him (the others have all nominated him twice) and Ollie and Lee have nominated him as well. People not liking Jim Davidson of all people don't make him a victim or a martyr, especially when all the girls who he's patronized have good reason to not like him.

You said that Linda's petty for not revealing her past history with Jim, but you said it yourself that you couldn't care less if she holds a grudge? That seems contradictory to me, and I don't see how Linda revealing her past history with Jim makes a difference. There's clearly a lot of history between them and it comes from a place of very deep-seated resentment. I don't think there's an obligation Linda to have to explain everything and relive what is obviously a traumatic past between them.

Again, it's extremely foolish to say that Jim doesn't know why Linda hates her and act like he was innocently inquiring if it had to do with Frank Carson's dressing room. He knew exactly what he was doing it and it was entirely calculated. He deliberately set Luisa up to inquire about an incident involving Linda's dead husband to upset her tremendously, and then pretend that it never happened. It's extremely malicious and underhanded and really is one of the slimiest, grossest things I've ever seen on this program.

I've heard different stories about Jim's involvement in the whole thing (that he was the one implemented the hidden camera, that he threatened to beat Linda's husband up over the thing, among other stories), but if we want to talk about pettiness I think him taking those actions to get someone arrested over 20 or 25 pounds is incredibly petty. Just my two cents.