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What is the message to adopted people when everyone clarifies Dylan Farrow was an "adopted" daughter? Are they pointing out the contrast to Soon-Yi Previn, the step-daughter the man groomed and married? Or are they minimizing his role as a goddamned parent? Well, it wasn't "rape" rape. And she wasn't his "daughter" daughter.

Date: 2014-02-04 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bronnyelsp.livejournal.com
Yeah, which is sick because a) it invites the idea that you sexualised her from that age and b) you were in a parental role which carries with it an uneven power balance through most, if not all, of life -- even into adulthood.

Date: 2014-02-04 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sacramentalist.livejournal.com
Well, I creeped it up a little for effect. We usually waited until they were at their father's place :)

Date: 2014-02-04 06:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eyelid.livejournal.com
b) you were in a parental role which carries with it an uneven power balance through most, if not all, of life -- even into adulthood.

...which is exactly why incest is also a safe-space-for-children taboo and not just a genetic taboo.

Date: 2014-02-05 11:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bronnyelsp.livejournal.com
I disagree for precisely the reason that it wouldn't be incest if [livejournal.com profile] sacramentalist had either abused his stepdaughter as a child or had formed a relationship with her as an adult. The former would be disgusting and wrong and paedophilic. The latter would have been creepy and also disgusting and wrong and paedophilic if his attraction to her formed when she was a child and he just "waited" till she was of age. But it wouldn't be incest.

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