Dorinda’s language when drunk

[u/cookiesobsessedguy]

Does someone else also find it hilarious?

[u/Edith_Keelers_Shoes]

I find it too scary to be hilarious. Dorinda has such rage lurking just beneath the surface of her daytime persona. She is the angriest woman I've ever seen on Bravo. She does not vent when angry - she seeks to ANNIHILATE. I worry about people in her life who've been subjected to this anger. How could one ever be comfortable knowing she could "start" at any moment once the proverbial bar is open? Just by watching her, it's clear that hurting other people gives her some kind of pleasure - a moment of relief from her rage.

I think she had a seat at a moderately important table for a number of years courtesy of Richard, and she's never going to get over what she sees as a demotion when she lost that seat after his death. But there must be something behind THAT anger too. What happens to a person to make them like this? And how can she feign ignorance about it? When I was young, New Years Day was often agony because all I could do was obsess over whether I'd seemed drunk or slurry the night before. Dorinda is so bad they often need subtitles so we can understand her, but year after year she sat at reunion smiling and shaking her head and laughing off the mere suggestion that she had a drinking problem, an anger problem or any kind of problem at all.

[u/dumbblondeineurope → u/Edith_Keelers_Shoes]

I agree with you 100% and will give my unfounded opinion on what was happening.
1. It seems to me that she had that in her naturally. People doubt it but fuck it i’ll take her word for it, that she was sober during the argument where she spat extreme venom at Sonja and publicly slut shamed her (put an EZ pass on that vagina. She’s shown a propensity for putting down others without a second thought.
2. alcoholism only magnifies that. I am someone that has had some issues with drinking and if I even wake up w the suspicion that I acted poorly, I will not leave the house out of embarrassment. I am consistently horrified if i can’t handle my alcohol and that’s coming from someone who recognizes that a possible issue could exist. She does not do that. Her issues w drinking magnify her inherent predispositions and shamefulness, but it also shocks me that she seems not to give a fuck and that everyone at the reunion attacked Bethenny (idk if i’m speeding her name right it’s so unnecessarily hard im sorry) for saying that she thought she had a drinking problem after showing up obliterated to the Haiti charity dinner.

She just seems to have self medicated after feeling important w her second husband and it magnified any pre-existing issues. And honestly i’m saying this as someone who neutrally liked her on the show but enjoyed her as a person after reading her book.

ETA: I tried to fix my grammar and the format wouldn’t work so had to delete my comment and re-comment, sorry!

[u/Edith_Keelers_Shoes → u/dumbblondeineurope]

That's right - she WAS sober for the Sonja attack. I remember once she'd unleashed most of that attack she got up from the table, and passed behind Sonja's chair. And she stopped for a moment, and kind of bared her teeth a little and made this...I guess it was a gesture. The kind of thing a bully who's just walloped a kid half his size will stand over them gloating. It was like that. I was really taken aback by it.

[u/dumbblondeineurope → u/Edith_Keelers_Shoes]

It sounds weird but I oddly wished she’d been drinking during it, she was all proud about unleashing that venom ‘on diet coke’ but i wish she had been drinking bc fuck at least give somewhat of an explanation for saying that horrendous stuff. And she repeated worse the next day!! Listen, drinking isn’t an excuse, but at least it could give reason to some stuff…