Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24376757-20150403035127/@comment-24674051-20150406170408

Farerb wrote: Mr Gold does not seem like a female. True, and Pan was not. but since the NL Arc, we've had all the above mentioned females (that's 3B, 4A, and 4B).

Plus 2A was Cora.

So the balance is weighing heavily towards the female antagonists. 8 Women (Regina, Cora, Tamara, Zelena, Ingrid, Maleficent, Ursula, and Cruella)  and 3 Men (Rumple, Greg, Pan).

And yes, Hook is there, but even when he was working for Cora, I never considered him an Antagonist. At least, he's never really felt like an antagonist, imo.