Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT: 2878-2882 (19-23 January 2015)
BenRG:
@ Bologna,
I'm not going to insist on this being the answer but mothers do lie to their daughters if they think it will protect them. Maybe, because Mrs W knows how close Faye was to her father, she decided to hide the fact that he was an alcoholic from her? If so, then she could make an appearance if Faye ends up in hospital/rehab to tell the real story to Faye's friends.
Bologna:
@Ben, that's...possible. Can't say we know too much about Faye's mom to infer either way. That's almost a-whole-nother plotline in itself.
NilsO:
--- Quote from: Blackbird on 22 Jan 2015, 06:26 ---I kind of wonder how this will affect Dora/Tai.
Dora: "I had to fire Faye for drinking on the job."
Tai: "I get high as fuck at work all the time, what's the big deal?"
--- End quote ---
:mrgreen: Alternative Tai: "You bitch! I get high as fuck at work all the time. Why don't you fire me as well? No, wait a minute, I quit!"
Although drug and alcohol abuse are different, I would guess Tai is going to have great sympathy for Faye. Tai appears not to view her drug abuse as a problem, and seems not to have been reprimanded for it at her workplace. For her, drugs and alcohol are a natural part of daily life.
Neko_Ali:
It's also questionable what the coroner might have thought was 'anything unusual'. Or it's possible he knew Mrs Whittaker was a devout non-drinker and hid the fact that he was drunk at time of death to spare her further pain. Or it's possible Faye was right. He wasn't an alcoholic, he only had one drink a week and just snuck it because his wife didn't approve of drinking. You don't have to have a family history of alcoholism, depression or mental health problems do have one of those issues. It is brought up because if there is a history of those sorts of things in your family, it increases your risk of developing them yourself. It could very well have been that Mr Whittaker was very depressed for a long time, or had other issues in his life that he hid from his family/they didn't see. Issues that he saw no other escape from. It's very easy to get into that sort of cycle of self destruction if you keep negative feelings bottle up. Even those that seem and are minor things when talked about and brought out into the light can be huge monsters if you keep it to yourself in the dark and keep poking at it.
CaptainFish:
Dora's reaction makes sense, I just wish she inverted the order. Seriously talk to Faye about why this is unacceptable and really damaging to her life, implore her to go to therapy, send her home for the day and then bring her in sober to talk about punitive measures.
I totally get why Dora did what she did though, especially since Faye blew off their last conversation about her drinking with humour. There's dramatic irony in that we can clearly see how self-destructive Faye is acting, while Dora and Marten have only gotten glimpses of Faye being a somewhat happy drunk*. If they had been witness to the Pintsize moment I think they'd have made a bigger deal about it.
*Even so, they still pressed the issue to some extent.
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