Just marry someone who couldn’t conceiveably be your half sibling.
Forget it Jake, it’s the Akron Beacon Journal Online.
I’m not getting the Chinatown references.
Which is weird, because in a little over an hour I’ll be in Chinatown.
“He’s my father!”
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“He’s my husband!”
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Etc.
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Regards,
Shodan
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I always wondered, why the eyes, anyhoo? I mean, they weren’t exactly the offending member. :eek:
I think it is based on the myth of Oedipus.
Regards,
Shodan
I always found it funny Freud and other seized on the incest part of the myth, the more compelling part to me is the self consistent timeline thing which has inspired further myths in the bible like Herod and Jesus and Moses all the way to books and film.
in a way this isn’t surprising. The Westermarck effect only seems to protects us from being attracted to our relatives if we spend time around the relative when one party is under the age of 6 years. If her dad wasn’t around when she was a child, it would make sense that the normal protections against incest wouldn’t be operating when they finally did meet.
It seems very bizarre that other family members apparently knew something about it and never told her though. However, it sounds like her bio family is very dysfunctional. Poor lady. I’m glad that she is trying to make the best of life in spite of apparently having a crummy family.
I’m confused. She thought her grandad was her Dad till she was nine. Her bio-mother was someone known as a “family friend.” So the mother wasn’t the daughter of the grandad. So how was he her Grandad? Was he the father of her father, and didn’t mention it when they got married?
I understood it to mean that she was raised by her grandfather, who told her (or let her assume) that he was her father. I also understood it to mean that her grandfather didn’t want her to know that her mother (his daughter) was a prostitute, hence the lie that she was a friend of the family.
Of course, but given he was clearly a douchebag who wasn’t going to voluntarily not-date his daughter, why on earth did no one else step up to the plate? If you see someone get punched, do you just stand there and watch or do you do something about it?
There were several levels of fail, here.