good critique of EP by attacks the presumption that there was some kind of Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness on which the rest of the EP argument rests.
I do not think it is repulsive at all. Tender, yes. Moving, Yes. There is also a reference of a bond between the young and the old. I cannot help thinking that the creature is, in some way, a perception of old women today. Would that one of the reason why some may find it repulsive - old age without shame?