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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9248416" data-attributes="member: 4534">It took an entire three months for someone to reply to the OP.  And here I thought this thread had gone over like a lead balloon.  I'm going to have to disagree with you here quite vehemently.  In the mid-1980s when many parents were horrified over their belief that the ritual sexual abuse of children was rampant.  They weren't grossed out by it, they were horrified by the idea that it was happening and fearful of what might happen to their own children while they were at school or otherwise out of their parent's sight.  A pile of vomit gross, there's a squick factor there, but it isn't horrifying.  I don't want to be a jerk here, but I just can't express just how difficult I have seeing your point of view that child abuse isn't frightening.  We are very far apart on this.  We also don't define squick the same.  So I don't think I'm missing the point here, I just think we have a fundamentally different outlook on these things.  Squick to me is gross.  Umbridge wasn't gross nor did I argue that she was.  I argued one of the reasons she was particularly loathed is because most of us have encoutered people like her in real life where as we have little experience with Voldemorts.  I don't know how you define horror.  I typically go with horror as something which inspires feelings of dread or fear.  Something which inspires dread or fear might be disgusting of course.</blockquote>

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