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Ok... click here for the definition of Rape Culture as contained on Wikipedia. While I don't endorse Wikipedia as a great source for information, the definition here is fairly accurate.

So a rape culture is a culture where "rape is pervasive and normalized due to social attitudes." (see above for the definition of Rape).

Where on the show do you see rape as pervasive? In all honesty, I see one instance, which is Regina/Graham (and THAT was a poor choice by the writers). One instance does not pervasiveness make. Where do you see it as being "Normalized"? Nowhere that I can tell. In fact, I would go so far as to say that rape would be extremely frowned on, and swiftly dealt with, in the Once culture. Where do you see attitudes that rape would be acceptable. Hook, a pirate, would tell you it's bad form, before making you "walk the bloody plank". Rumple, the Dark One, would likely turn you into a snail and squash you if he caught you. Robin would just make the person a porcupine. And Charming would have a short trial followed by an execution in front of a firing squad. (Ok, violence in the Once realm is socially acceptable, or at least socially tolerated, but that is a different topic).

Bottom line: Trying to compare OUaT to a Rape culture shows not only a lack of understanding of what rape is, it shows a lack of understanding of what a rape culture is.