Precisely.

Ha! And now I’m inspired to write a post.

Betty is a very disciplined/repressed person and a (un)healthy dose of moral superiority often comes with that. Plus she was angry at SB for whining yet again about her perfect husband. I think she saw herself in the husband’s shoes in that moment. She was also angry at Arthur for lying to her at the stables about having seen SB. Turns out Arthur wasn’t just after Betty, he was after anyone who would have him. Just two more people for Betty to be angry at and disappointed in during season two.

Betty doing the hot guy in the bar is the perfect example of just how damned disciplined she is. It takes her being pregnant, tipsy and in the middle of a personal and world crisis to for her to be unfaithful. She’s had the recurring fantasy of being taken by a stranger, the opportunity for an affair with Arthur, a perfectly healthy sex drive and a husband who doesn’t appreciate her but it still takes a major crisis for her to sleep with someone else. Betty always just represses represses represses until she can’t take anymore and it ends up coming out in strange bursts.

In the recent Harper’s Bazzar article about January, MW said something along the lines of how Betty’s actions are half impulse, half pre-meditated which is a good description of her.

Maybe she didn’t have sympathy for Sara Beth, but then again **I** didn’t have any sympathy for Sara Beth either, so it didn’t seem odd to me.

All Betty did was arrange a lunch between the two. Sara Beth and Arthur were the ones who had decided to have sex.

And it’s not just angry women that men are afraid of, but smart women, too. (I used to get told to smile a lot when I was younger. My sister and I are fairly attractive, but we were raised to use our brains, not our looks.) I’m sure no one ever told Einstein to smile.

Did you see that total idiot Donald Trump say yesterday that if Miss California wasn’t so BEAUTIFUL, no one would care what she thought about gay marriage; according to him, it’s only because she’s so attractive that people care what she thinks? I couldn’t believe it.

SFCaramia, exactly. Betty has been careful to direct her anger to specific people and circumstances.

She waited until Carla left to unload on Don, after the dinner party. She went after the dining-room chair when she thought no one was looking (either unware of, or heedless to, her stunned children in the next room). She ranted over the phone to Sarah Beth – whether or not she was directing her rage just at Sarah Beth — when, and only when, SB called her to speak about the encounter.

Betty is clearly still close enough to her own childhood to be aware of her temper, and remember certain lessons about controlling it. She still loses it, but public scenes like the one in the supermarket with Helen Bishop don’t happen any more. She’s more careful, now, to contain the damage and limit the number of witnesses.