oooooof, I forgot all of those. But we'll get to them! Y...ay?
Mentioned this on Twitter, but yeah, could be that's a factor. I'm in my mid-40s and my dad is 30 years older, so that Eisenhower's-America upbringing (with no sisters, not for nothing) is part of it. Most of it is that my father is emotionally reserved -- not cold or shy, but very even-keeled and to this day not comfortable with a certain...storminess of temperament in his kids. I can count on one hand the number of times he's raised his voice, for any reason. (John actually wondered aloud one time if I was SURE he'd been a Wall Street guy, hee.) So, while Dave Sr. and I are very close and he was a (literally) hands-on dad when we were little, it's manifested more obliquely now that everyone's adults. And that's not the "right way," of course, just my normal.
On the show...this particular manifestation of a more snuggly post-puberty familiarity between Keith and Veronica hits a weird note for me (and John) in that there's a teasing work-spouse tone to it that doesn't quiiiiite play, given the reasons for the mother/wife's absence etc. and so on. I haven't done a great job articulating why I think sometimes it crosses a line, but the "scrawny" scene is probably the best example so far re: my feeling that that would never happen and other women not seeing anything unusual about her defending her shape to her male parent. Which may happen! But my pops would greet any iteration of it with "no hablo," so: YMMV.