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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
And what? She would not have even been born. He would not have even been born. But so what? Why ewww? What makes you go ewww, if you can describe it?
I mean - people have idiosyncratic reactions. I detest and am even afraid of snakes, so EWWW. But it does not make snakes bad. I realize intellectually that snakes are a part of our ecosystem and respect their place in it, but idiosyncratically, it is EWWW for me. They are slimy. They... they.. creepy. And can be poisonous, too. I am so glad I live in a place without snakes.
So that is idiosyncratic, and that is fairly common. My mother was even more afraid of and disgusted by snakes. It is not rare. If somebody were disgusted by fluffy kittens, that would be unusual, but being disgusted by snakes is not unusual, so I am normal in the statistical sense. But still, it does not make snakes bad - that I am not alone in feeling this kind of disgust at the sight of a snake does not make snakes bad.
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What makes me go ewww? Well for one thing my Wife thinks it is creepy because they look like they are Father and daughter and I tend to agree with her because that is what most people I know would assume if they saw a woman going out with a much older bloke and vice versa. What makes it worse is when the relationship is between a woman’s childhood best friend and her Father and I saw that first hand when my Wife’s best friend dated her Father before he passed away and strange doesn’t begin to describe that relationship and how it affected my Wife. She was already used to him sleeping with women younger than her not to mention his drunken antics where she had to pick him up at 3 or 4 am after he had passed out naked but dating her best friend was what crossed the line for her.
My Father In Law was basically like a second Dad to my Wife’s best friend and he knew her when she was a little girl and even though they weren’t blood related it was kind of like some weird incestuous relationship you only hear about happening in Boganville. When I see relationships between a young woman and a much older man I am instantly reminded of that now and while not all of them are like that it still looks wrong and unusual to me.