Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24892318-20140606234443/@comment-91424-20140908201044

Oncer 90 wrote: The problem is everyone is still trying to push their own ships and not looking at how harmful it is when you dismiss it not being rape culture because 'oh my bbys look so pretty together #truL0v3'

This blog explains it better, read it as a person and not a shipper and you'll see how bad it is what they're trying to get you to romanticise:

Once Upon a Rape Culture: @OnceABC and “No Means Yes”

Also, 'rape culture' =/= rape. Google rape culture and how it affects everyone before saying it's not rape, rape culture is not the act of rape and I've just browsed through countless rebuttals of some shipper's mythical definition of what rape culture is. Are you serious...? That blog article contains many statements that are factually incorrect. For example:

*The author claims that Emma " repeatedly" says that she is not interested. Wrong. True, she did say that the kiss was a "one time thing" ("Good Form"), and also that if she had to choose a man, she'd choose Henry, because he was the only love she had room for in her life ("Dark Hollow"), and that's pretty much it. There's the things she said in "Kansas" (like saying that Zelena should try to enchant the lips of someone she'd actually kiss), but that was because she was mad at him for what happened to Henry in the previous episode, so that does not count. And the other things I mentioned, cannot be described as "repeatedly" telling someone that you're not interested. The author is either lying, or has a very bad memory...

 *The blog says that Emma has kept acting like she couldn’t stand Hook. Okay, now I'm almost laughing. The only time she has acted like that in Season Three was in "Kansas", and that was just because she was angry with him because of what happened in the previous episode. Hook has become Emma's first friend that isn't her mother. She trusts him (she says so to Regina in "The Jolly Roger"), and cares about him. When he almost dies in "Kansas", she freaks out and is terrified of losing him.

 ** The blog also says that Emma looked at Hook when he attempted to put his hand on her back as they left Regina's house. Not true. She has a perfectly neutral look on her face, and doesn't even seem to notice it.

 *The blogger also ignores the fact that Hook is genuinely in love with Emma. That is actually proven on the show. In the Echo Caves in "Ariel", he says, to Emma, "My secret is that I never thought I'd be capable of letting go of my first love, my Milah. To believe I could find someone else. That is…until I met you." The bridge appears. If what he said was not true, it would not have worked. And in "The Jolly Roger", he admits to "Ariel" (Zelena) that he loves Emma, and Zelena says, "When you invoked the name of your love in a selfish plea for redemption, I was able to curse you..."

 I'll leave the Twilight stuff she brings up, out of this...