#ceejay rambles

I need to reread both comics to better regather my thoughts, but I reread dyellogin's backstory for Bill and my mind immediately recognised the emotional incest. (I'm typing as a victim interpreting the comic and I know emotional abuse is different than emotional incest, but parentification is a form of emotional incest. When a parent blurs the lines between parent and child and expects the child to appeal towards the comfort of the parent--it is considered incest and emotional will always precede physical incest (ie: CSA)) Women especially single mothers/failing marriage-mothers are suspectable towards emotional incest towards their children and that affects how the child develops emotionally. This makes sense to how Bill was easily influenced through Joe's backwards views if his situation growing up has a lack of a father figure, an emotionally-inappropriate mother because he has no genuine guidance and instead gets hooked into extremist content online in which he parrots offline to the people around him.