Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24892318-20140606234443/@comment-91424-20140614225105

Utter solitude wrote: The things that you're comparing to rape here is absolutely nothing like rape. Hook was interested in Emma, so he pursued her. THAT IS NOTHING LIKE RAPE. The comparison is, at least in my opinion, horrifically offensive. Rape is a violent physical act. Again, rape is a VIOLENT PHYSICAL act. (Excuse the caps, this is making my eye twitch pretty hard) Factually speaking, Hook has done nothing rape-like. You can make the argument that he was forceful with Emma, but that is not at all like the violent crime that is rape.

Utter solitude sums it up perfectly. If you don't like the character, fine. If you don't like the couple, fine. But stop calling trying to win someone's heart, "rape culture". It is ridiculous, and offensive. If you want to criticise a character, then stick to the FACTS. Stop saying things that are NOT true. (Besides, it's pretty obvious, that Emma was interested Hook all along. She just had these walls around herself, because she'd had bad experiences with relationships in the past (Neal, and then Walsh), and was afraid to enter into a new one.)