Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20161114201452/@comment-24674051-20161116184742

A few general comments:

first, Regina has always been shown as what I would call aggressively flirty. The Huntsman/Graham has been pointed out, but she also used her feminine wiles on David, Owen Mendel, The Woodcutter/Michael Tillman, Edmond Dantes, and Rumple (Go back and rewatch some of their early scenes, she was definitly flirty), just to name a few. As Regina transitioned from "villain" to "hero", she stifled her flirtiness, at least to a degree. It was still there with Robin, even in the lost year. What we are seeing with Queenie is that sexual desire without Regina's conscious to filter it. That she turns up the heat on Rumple does not surprise me. That Rumple responds to the heat, well, it surprises me a little (though Queenie does present someone that would be hard to resist).

As for some of the other examples, I just suggest that you go and look at other TV shows, or just go look out your window. There really is not anything that they have shown or implied on the show that does not already exist in our world. I would not call it sexism, I would call it a reflection of our world.

Now, relating all of this to GoldenQueen (gag). Both parties want something the other has, and both are willing to use sex in order to achieve their ends. I don't particularly like it (in fact, I need to scrub my eyes after every GQ makeout session), but I understand where the writers are going with that 'relationship'. And again, it just mirrors what goes on in our world.