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Are inappropriate comments from father to daughter akin to emotional rape?

Asked by WillWorkForChocolate (23163points) February 8th, 2011

Dear old Dad likes to make comments about you. (If you’re not a girl, pretend you are.) He makes comments to his friends about your “huge chest” and laughs that “When she was pregnant, she looked like a Jersey milk cow! Nothin but tits and legs!”

Aside from those comments, he’s told you some personal things about himself, such as, “Wouldn’t do me any good to get a girlfriend since I can’t keep it up anyway.”

On top of that, he sends you emails that a father shouldn’t send a daughter, like a video of women competing in a pole dancing competition. Or a really pretty palm tree… between the legs of a naked lady on the beach. Or raunchy jokes that one of your girlfriends might send, but coming from your dad seems pretty strange.

Dear old Dad doesn’t see anything wrong with his behavior, just laughs about everything and says it’s all funny.

Would you regard this as simply unintentional disgusting behavior? Or would the disturbing nature of the comments and such lead you to wonder about emotional, incestuous rape?

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