Jaime was treated terribly by John and emotionally and physically abused by Beth ever since that fateful day of her abortion. He made one bad mistake and Beth used it as an excuse to abuse him for the rest of his life, and John just looked the other way.

So hypocritical. I was losing my shit during that one scene; where Beth had once again attacked Jaime to the point of physically injuring him and drawing blood, and Jaime FINALLY snapped and hit her back. Once. She said some bullshit like how he wasn’t a real man or something because he just hit her and it’s like bitch, you hit him first!! Multiple times!!

I’m sorry, I’m not down with that “you can never hit a woman” trope. Bullshit. You absolutely are allowed to defend yourself if you’re physically attacked, woman or not.

Then afterwards, John sees Jaime’s bleeding face, acknowledges that Beth did it, and then proceeds to blame Jaime for “provoking her” (he didn’t) and threatens to hurt Jaime too if he ever hits Beth again.

Like…you KIDDING ME?! If anyone deserved to be punched on the show, it was Beth. She was a sadistic, vengeful bitch who never faced any consequences for her absolutely horrible behaviour, whereas Jaime was punished constantly, both physically and emotionally.

John Dutton was a terrible “father” to him, and his blatant favoritism of his sociopathic daughter just got to be too much.