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I do understand that and trying to use pity/heartstring pulling is all she thinks she can safely use to try and get the Gunt to not to treat her like shit or act decently.I'll just chime in on this post.
Women tend to be passive-aggressive and are less likely to be confrontational, especially with a significant other. If you couple the natural willingness of a woman to be that way with the fact that Faith is nineteen, pregnant (both of which can lead to hormonal episodes) and has significant self-esteem and self-image issues as well as the fact Ralph has cut her off from any other support framework she'd have (like a "good" abuser does normally) you have a recipe for a woman who is scared for her future and that of the unborn child. She doesn't want to be part of this (because no one in their right mind finds Pantsu attractive) probably because of her upbringing (monogamy) and she's not interested in women, so she did what she could to lessen the impact while not pissing Ralph off too much. She's seen how he is sober, she's seen how it's ramped up when he's drunk. She knows what's coming. Yes, she's with her parents now, but there is still the fact she's worried about what Ralph could do to her. Abusers tend to leave the victim with the impression that there is little they can do to escape them--even moving cross-country might not "save" them in their mind--and when you have a young woman in Faith's position it's understandable she might be a bit worried.
I can and do understand why people think she's a sociopathic, conniving, manipulative little cunt. But there are, to some extent, several underlying factors involved in this entire thing--none of which I or pretty much anyone here can properly diagnose (except @Ken Jennings who is an actual therapist).
However,Ethan has projected himself publicly as upstanding Christian right wing white man. The savior of western culture bullshit that white trash just love even if their behavior is the total opposite of that ideal.
So Faith could have hoisted him by his own petard. She had the ability to call out his total hypocrisy, but didnāt. Maybe she was too scared to do it, or maybe she knew too well it was just BS and doesnāt actually behave as he preaches and couldnāt even pretend otherwise even to publicly humiliate him. But it was always the only leverage she ever had over him.
Ethan literally could not care less about her tender teenage feelings, emotions or bun in the oven. He will probably happily outdo Ronnie in the shitty white dad competition. However, living up to a fake persona he has spent years inventing and promoting might matter to him a bit.
His recent āChrist is Kingā tweet certainly puts him in realm of failed TV evangelist grifter territory. Grifters love to use religion to con people. Its just amazingly stupid move when you are a degenerate and damn well know it will blow up in your face. I mean itās certainly obvious a lot of right wing Christians will support a sinful degenerate as long as he talks a good game - they can be greedy, abuse booze/drugs and even cheat on their wives as long as they act sorry and remorseful about it when caught red handed.
But physically abusing a woman, being a deadbeat dad, pedophilia and trying to adopt a polygamous lifestyle are a bridge too far for many right wing Christians. But itās totally unforgivable if Ethan wonāt even make a faux gesture at forgiveness and repenting his sin.
I doubt it matters in the end. Ethanās attempt to expand his audience to the Christian Right was always doomed. Heās just degenerate white trash that appeals to other poor white angry degenerate trash under 30.
Trying on the religious mantle is a bad idea for a gross fat pervert who thinks the American dream is being an alcoholic that gets to eat endless fried food, use women as cum rags and live in a filthy hovel with a lot of big screens. He can certainly appeal to the angry white incels niche with his version of the American dream without having to pretend he loves Jesus or believes in Christian morals too.