There's a general level of squick that made me recoil from the pages more than once.
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They may not be related by blood, but it's still enough to mildly squick out most of us.
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The other three cases thankfully don't reach that level of squick, though they aren't any picnic to read through either.
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Matching the tone of real-world interactions could mean the difference between robots that squick us out and robots that we don't mind chatting with.
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Let's also acknowledge the squick factor of giving FB even more intimate data than I already do, not only about who I'm interested in but also about who's (not) interested in me.
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I'm certainly curious how they're each going to react to finding out their relationship, but the moment didn't play out any particular squick factor for me because it's not written or shot that way.
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The best take I've read is from Slate's Sam Adams, who notes the Woody Allen resonances in his post and writes comprehensively about its more uncomfortable elements: "I Love You, Daddy is likely to squick some people out whether or not they're aware that C.K. has himself been accused of nonconsensual sex acts," he writes.
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The term squick is most often used as a warning to refer to a reader's possible negative reaction to scenes in the text (often sexual) that some might find offensive or distressing, such as those including incest, BDSM, rape, "MPreg" (male pregnancy), gender swapping, and torture. The term originated in the Usenet newsgroup alt.sex.bondage in 1991."squick" definition from Double-Tongued Dictionary. Doubletongued.
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Though increasingly common, RPS is considered a potential "squick" for slash readers. In addition, the use of celebrities in fictional, sexual stories remains controversial. Journals including RPS often include disclaimers that explain their true fictional nature. Henry Jenkins says that RPS may be "troubling" to the old guard of slash.
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A–Z Guides 100. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. The genre can invoke intense feelings of physical and psychological disgust, or squick, and play upon anxieties of physical vulnerability. In addition to common tropes used within the broader horror genre, some tropes specific to the body horror subgenre may include invasion, contagion, mutation, transformation, disease, mutilation, or other unnatural or violent distortions of the human body.
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