Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-34563899-20180218220444/@comment-28162607-20180219203234

Killiarious wrote: Honestly it's all very messy, Neal you could argue it either way (it's not like it was his intent though), Hook made a shitty joke but there's no true evidence that he ever raped someone.

The only people that are confirmed rapists are Zelena, Regina, and Gothel. Those are facts.

The other two are eh and probably not worth arguing over due to the way timelines work and A&E not being careful with that topic. I don't think the take away from Hook or Neal's situations was meant to be rape from a storytelling standpoint. No. Neal unambigiously sexually abused Emma. Even if you think that biologically he was a teenager he was over 200 years old. And Emma was definitely still underage.

Even if it was not his "intent" (strange wording) it was still abuse.