Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-27404492-20170417075739/@comment-14909251-20170430165613

PisceanWaterbender wrote: It'd have been one thing if Jacques had managed to calmly resolve the situation, but instead he got angry, which made her even angrier.

I don't condone anyone in this scene's actions because pretty much everyone was at fault.

Weiss was traumatized and sick of being using as a pawn, but she ended up losing her credibility and her status because of it with her outburst. Might've even cost the company a ton of money.

Jacques couldn't handle the situation without irritating Weiss further, which reflects bad parenting, especially with an unruly child. Why he still has complete control over Weiss, I don't know, but presumely at this point, she's 18, which makes her an adult, which means she no longer has to submit to him. If that's true, then the slap would be comparable to an assault rather than discipline.

Shittier Neptune wouldn't stop hitting on Weiss, which contributed to the outburst, and didn't even have the audacity to know why the event was occurring.

The aptly named Trophy Wife bitch [who doesn't even look pretty enough to be a trophy wife honestly] couldn't stop her shit-talk, especially because of the alcohol, and her husband couldn't stop her from shit talking either, and with the hurtful thigns she was saying, hell I would be pissed at her too. Angry enough to release a magical pig at her? Well, that'd depend on my level of anger, but Weiss was okay to be angry, though maybe not to the level of mutilation, even if that was accidental.

I think Ironwood was the only one in that room that really had any sense...and maybe the Businessman from Jacques' conversation during the party, who was discussing Faunus rights and economic disparities between Mantle and Atlas, making him seem politically aware. I still don't think it is even sort of right to suggest Weiss is "at fault" in any sense. Weiss may not have PTSD, but that doesn't mean she isn't burdened with the trauma of what happened. No notion of "maturity" applies when you are talking about trauma and how people react to it. Trauma is also something that overpowers a person's self-control. When you go back and look at the episode, it is not just the "good riddance" comment or that guy not knowing what the fundraiser is about. You also had that one person complaining very rudely to the waiter about his order. Probably, Jacques played a role in her agitation as well. She wasn't just angry at one person. All of it snowballed and, in combination with the trauma she experienced and quite possibly the general trauma of her whole life, she lost it. Her credibility and the company's name is not really her concern, nor should it be when talking about matters of life and death.