I'm obviously coming at this from the female perspective, so take it as you will, but Faith and May's conversation seems pretty typical, honest and normal.
You can tell there's an age gap between May and Faith and you can also tell that there is some desperation on Faith's side to hold it all together in a way she sees as "what she wants".
Faith is mentally immature with a complex towards male attention, but with a lack of serious life experience. Faith realizes that she's losing her boyfriend, a big deal, who fucked her and impregnated her. She's not encountered a man who walks away from his obligations (
@MWV hasn't) and she views being pregnant as something important, something that should make Ralph "stay" with her. A lot of young women make this mistake.
May is being neutral and not saying too much either way against or for Ralph.
She's being supportive and sympathetic yet it comes off in a very fraternizing way.
May is very clearly testing the waters and smoothing things out whilst keeping her options open : If it goes south with Ralph, she will have a scorned comrade in Faith. If it goes well with Ralph, she will have "clean hands" with Faith.
It's very deceptive and immature in comparison to the gravity of the situation, but that's to be expected - May is immature.
Everything in those text messages is typical. Very typical behaviour between two females who don't have the knives out against one another per se, but are both stuck in a difficult circumstance. There's nothing malicious there.
At the end of the day these text messages, whilst entertaining to us, are immaterial to the situation. Ralph got a teenager pregnant, abdicated his role as a father, impregnated another immature idiot and will abdicate his role as a father there as well.
Stupid text messages between two women make no difference to the absolute malicious failure of a human being that Ethan Ralph is.
He can holler all he wants about Faith being a "thot" and a nasty woman, but he's done absolutely nothing to salvage the situation.
He released revenge porn, he hasn't bothered with proving paternity, he's engaged in endless fights, he's dropped pictures of his child on the internet. Even if Faith is the craziest person on earth, Ralph's made zero attempt to do what's in the best interest of his son : Shut the fuck up.
He doesn't give one shit about his son and he won't give one shit about his daughter when May leaves him. It's all about him.
All this shit about babysitting is deflection from the absolute spiteful, malicious failure that Ralph is.
