My reaction to his, "And it doesn't bother you that you don't have a man in your life?" was exactly the same as Linda's.
WTF?!
He has admitted to being a male chauvinist. He doesn't like women, he can't deal with them standing up to him or questioning his motives. Linda thought that he had called her an arsehole, but he didn't deny it, just told her to go to bed and bin her anger (he told Lee not to bottle his anger up and to let it out, but he's a man you know). He likes to dismiss women's complaints and walk off, making out that they are behaving irrationally. It is all very calculated.
He knows he slipped up with his Frank Carson's dressing room comment. His lying was pathetic. Even trying to blame it on Luisa, despite telling her yo ask Linda about it.
Very low.