He has a really bad attitude towards women, IMO, and it's time they reigned him in on IW. It's all this 1970's "wotcha, love", then he takes a sarcastic pop, and heaven help a woman who answers him back or cracks a joke of her own, he hates to be upstaged. To me, he's typical of a man who is thoroughly henpecked at home and kept well and truly under the thumb - he only throws his weight around when he's at work. I think the nastiness is very close to the surface, and anyone he deems is 'beneath him' (gawd, you'd have to be lower than a snake's belly to be beneath him) will get the sarky treatment.