I AGREE. omg I feel so unsafe for saying this here because literally everyone seems to be glazing paris so much because she had a 'bad childhood with neglectful parents' it's not as though rory had a very present father? id argue that rory was psychologically scarred till her adulthood because of lorelai treating her like a best friend (lorelai meant well but it seemed like many times rory was being the parent) while simultaneously not having christopher in her life as a good dad. she felt personally rejected by her father especially after he ran to gigi.

People act like having a mom like lorelai is all sunshines and rainbows and use that as one of rory's 'privilege' cards not even considering the baggage that came along with it, rory was woken up at MIDNIGHT to a crying lorelai who ended her relationship with max, and she had to go on an impromptu trip with her hastily packing her bags without question or interrogation, and proceeds to get yelled at by lorelai for asking her questions as to WHY she ended the engagement, which she WAS entitled to. it was a very dysfunctional moment for rory.

Yet rory didn't give the 'my dad doesnt give a damn about me, only comes back for my mother and sees me as an obstacle to getting what he wants' excuse to be a bitch to everyone (in the early seasons at least, it really got to her in her early adulthood and practically ruined her by the time she was 32)