Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27079851-20171120082917/@comment-6175354-20171122061415

Ninclow wrote: My point about why one can't take it seriously regardless stands. I have to disagree, because that is where the issue lays. Just because the writers treat everything like a joke, does not mean the audience should too. Society is sick and tired of sexual abuse being used for entertainment purposes, without having any depth or commentary. The primary critique people have with OUaT, is that it romanticizes forms of abuse. Whether it was the psychological, domestic abuse between Rumplestilskin and Belle. Or be it the rape-by-deception of male characters, only for the storyline to care about redeeming the rapist. This was not the first time the OUaT writers pulled this stunt, and that is why people are taking it seriously.