Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20161114015927/@comment-1916997-20161114054739

Farerb wrote:

CoolDudeAl wrote:

Farerb wrote: Seriously, if you fidn't see my comment at the 607 thread I said I enjoyed the episode and I got excited for this one after I saw the promo and sneak peek, it's there you can go and see it. I honestly want to enjoy the show, but it keeps being bad so what am I supposed to say?

Why do I still watch it? I've said about millions of times, but I guess this is the best chance I see to explain it. Media shapes the way people see our society, it normalizes values and behaviors so when a show (any show, not just OUAT) portrays mysogynism and sexism and rape culture without commenting on them, without bad consequences, etc... It leads people to treat women, poc, lgbt badly, or elect an asshole for president. That's why "it's just a TV show" is a ridiculous statment to dismiss criticism and people should view media more critically.

Thank you for the question. Did you just blame Once Upon A Time for getting Trump elected? XD

Seriously, I've been upset about the election results, but that just made my night. Once is one of the most positive shows about females around, you don't see men abusing the women, and if anything the men are subservient to the women, so yeah, definitly didn't contribute to people voting for the orange billionaire with the bad toupee. "men are subservient to the women" yeah like how Emma's sole motivation is Hook's happy ending. SMH I'm sure if Trump is turned into a decent guy, but people bring up his past horrible acts, we won't hear nonesense like "he has changed, he is good now" Educate yourself about rape culture before you claim that OUAT is positive and not abusive towards women. Last I checked the only people being raped on this show were men by women. I usually think that is a silly thing to point out, because I don't like to equate magical deseption or control into rape, but I see the case others have made. If you don't know what I'm talking about the idea is that Regina raped The Huntsman/Graham and Zelena raped Robin. Point is, no woman on the show has ever been shown to be raped. Also, Emma wants Hook to be happy because it makes her happy. That's not "rape culture", that's being in a happy, loving relationship.