All you had to say was "I'd rather not comment on it" or "it was one of my worst moments which I regret", but no, sperg out and seethe about it.
This is, I think, so symptomatic as to what Ralph's problem is. For whatever reason - for what its worth I believe he has NPD - he is unable to retreat from a position, and unless he is truly pushed into a corner he is unable to admit vulnerability in a way that he views as weakness. I do not think anyone would fault Ralph if he said to Chrissy, even on stream, that he would not respond or react to superchats pertaining to his family on stream - it is a reasonable, if for him hypocritical, stance to take. Yet why did he not make this clear from the outset? He wants to appear macho, he wants to be the Ralphamale, he wants to pretend nothing gets to him.
He could of, and should of, been clear with her when it was getting to him. Instead, he chose to explode because to him
making a stand is his only option. He often openly talks about how these things make it worse, but then incoherently rambles off when he ponders taking a different route. "I could just sit there and take it... right?" (stated sarcastically). The answer is of course not, but just leaving, or just addressing it calmly and saying to Chrissy the situation would have dealt with it without becoming a spectacle and ruining even more relationships which were of benefit to you in a business sense.
God, Ralph is so full of regret. Underneath all that bluster, how he treated his Mom has devastated him psychologically. It's a truth that brings forth white hot rage against anyone in the vicinity. If he were to turn it on himself, he'd self-destruct. His rage is rooted in deep self-loathing and regret. To let comments about his Mother or his relationship go unanswered is to fail her twice.
The twisted mind of Ethan Ralph is a literal hell. If he were a woman he'd have self-harm scars all over his body. He's a huge sack of shit nonetheless. He's a man who cannot cope with what he's done and who he is, so he instead seethes with all he is. That level of seethe cannot be contained, and so Ralph lashes out.
He's hurting so bad over it, he projects that others will have the same pain if he talks about their mothers, daughters, girlfriends or wives. Ralph is unbelievably tortured by his own choices.
Ethan Ralph is Kino.
I agree with this, but taken with the above I think there is more to it. Ralph lacks a degree of insight and self-awareness, and while he can see the symptoms of his behaviour, he knows he does not like it and wants it to end, he fails to understand the route cause of it all. It's why despite his shame to how he treated his mother he continues to act like a piece of shit to his baby momma and is unrepentant about it. I do not think he understands how his behaviours and actions contribute to his predicament, beyond paying mere lip service when he is called out on it. Ultimately, he will concede in the vaguest of terms because while his brain cannot spin it to be someone else's fault he is physically incapable of taking personal responsibility. You see it in the texts with Faith, he will accept culpability, partially, then keep on going doing what he is apologising for. It is not sincere.
He reminds me in certain ways of another posthumous lolcow, Elliot Rodger, in that Elliot - who I believe had NPD and severe social anxiety - could recognise his social isolation, could recognise the problems this caused for him and could even at times identify the specific instances of how his behaviour contributed to it, but could never accept he was at fault because his narcissism prevented him from doing so. In doing so, he could never confront what was causing the issues he had. Women were not interested in him, but it was not him at fault for not approaching them or making friends - it was them for rejecting him. Likewise, Ralph hates how people behave towards him - they talk shit about him, they steal his son, they talk shit about his family members and fuck with him in real life... All things which would never of happened but for his own behaviour. He cannot see fault with how he acts and refuses to change because he is a narcissist.
With that said, narcissism is also a front, I believe what you have outlined are thoughts that do creep into his head. They are things that gnaw at him and which he is aware of, but he does not necessarily accept them as is. Hence he can't deal with them, he spends his time spinning how it wasn't his fault, it was the pills, the alogs, his mother, Fai Fai...
Unless he accepts he has a problem and gets help he will never change, and I do not even think he is capable of genuinely even taking the first step in doing this.