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Why do you feel that way? I'm guessing it's because you didn't/don't have a good relationship with your own dad, in which case I'm sorry.

I feel the same about a lot of parent-child relationships on TV. I have a great relationship with my parents, but it's nothing like what a lot of TV shows like to write.

Same here with most parent-child relationships in media, not just fathers. It all just feels so foreign to me that I just can't really relate at all. More so when displays of affection appear, it just wasn't done in my house.

D'awwww, lookit the cute widdle baby gator.

Seriously. Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the cute?

(I love alligators.)

yeah, I came here to say Love the PIC.

(And truly good fathers seem to be as rare in fiction as they are in life ... truly a s case of Art Imitating.)

I don't understand this opinion at all. I have met just as many people who had/have great fathers, as they had/have great mothers.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-07-02 18:28 (UTC) - Expand

Pretty sure those guys are crocs, but it's still ridiculously cute.

That's actually mommy. Male gators eat their young.

Yikes. Maybe this is why father-son dynamics make OP uncomfortable!

[Picture is the photograph of an alligator submerged in the water, with only part of its head poking out of the water. A baby alligator is laying on its head.]

Whenever father-son dynamics show up in media (even when the character aren't related) I always feel a little awkward because it feels like such an alien concept and the impact of such scenes just elude me.

Well, I don't have a media-worthy awesome brosome butt-kicking relationship with my parents, but then we've never been in a situation where butt-kicking is required. Doesn't stop me from being able to (and enjoying) imagining what it's like for people who would! But then I do have a good relationship with my parents: it sucks if you don't even have that. :( Maybe think of it more as a friendship, where one of the people happens to be older and more protective? Then you could at least get something out of all the toughing moments. :)

I feel you, OP. For the longest time, seeing positive depictions of father-daughter relationships in the media made me confused and even a little angry. It was just so far removed from my own experience as to be incomprehensible.

I hear you. I still get a little angry about that, mostly because some part of me still wonders what was so wrong with me that my own father found me so disgusting.

Watching lovable, healthy relationships on media seems to me like they are written in a foreign language, I just cannot comprehend them. Well, obviously I get them as a concept, but watching them only elicit blank stares from me...

Father-son relationships in media just make me bored. Oh ffs, we've seen it a thousand times before and it wasn't relevant or interesting the first time. For the love of god could we get some more variety? A few more father-daughter or mother-daughter or mother-son adventure stories instead?

That's why I loved Silent Hill 1 and 3

thene - 2013-07-02 01:56 (UTC) - Expand

I don't, we do get to see a shitton of father-daughter stories, but they're almost invariably of the "father saves/protects daughter" ilk (e.g. Taken). Which are rarely about their relationships so much as they are about the father's manly protective feels of manliness.

We do see mother-daughter stories, but they tend to be relegated to slice of life or human interest shows or romance stories. I'd love to see more of these in action-adventure type media.

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(Anonymous) - 2013-07-10 15:35 (UTC) - Expand

GOSICK has a very compelling mother/daughter bond. *O*

(Personally, I like any well-written parent/child relationship, good or bad. But yeah, mother/child relationships aren't as often focused on...)

Mother-Son is almost always played for laughs as in Overbearing Mother Smothers Son. I really don't like that.
But I have the feeling Father-Daughter is more prominent. Especially when the daughters are still younger.

thene - 2013-07-02 22:14 (UTC) - Expand

I admit I don't have anything to add other than, awwww, what a cute picture. :D

I'm like this with sisterly relationships - my relationship with my sister is so utterly ruined that I just can't connect with it on screen, no matter how nice those sisters are.

Not to mention that media LOVES the old 'sisters hate each other but are still the bestest friends' chestnut and that's been used against me. Fuck that noise.

I'm the same with mother/daughter relationships, because mine is seriously fucked up.

Weirdly, I feel annoyed on the crocodile's behalf because this secret is about father-son relationships, but the croc is a mother. Croc mother erasure!!!

I'm the same way. The only father-son relationship that I've felt like I've actually understood, oddly enough, is the father-son relationship of the man and boy in the "Night Terrors" episode of Doctor Who. :/ (Wtf, self? The kid wasn't even human.)