I have #hope that there will be an outcry from the fans and the media about your (hopefully) unintentional promotion of misogyny and violence against women. That the women on your writing staff calmly explain to you that having characters who make lude and suggestive comments to the female characters, who encroach on their personal space is unacceptable and a far cry from the romantic vision you constantly promote in the media.
I have #hope that you will realize the detriment that perpetuating these kind of sexist and abusive character traits on the show does to a generation of little boys and girls growing up who see these actions in the media and grow up thinking this is how things are, that this is okay, that this how men and women are supposed to interact with each other.
THIS SO MUCH. And it’s not just kids, but everyone of any age who shouldn’t be led to believe that that type of behaviour is acceptable and should be rewarded. Those tweets that Adam sent to someone who had brought up this topic, he ended up deleting them, and I dunno what that means exactly, but it suggests that maybe there was a PR meeting, so maybe the voices of those already speaking out about it ARE being recognised as existing.
In one of the interviews, they said something like how Hook would face some big decisions in the finale. If that’s to be believed, then perhaps we will actually see him have an attitude adjustment and back off to give Emma some space and respect. But if we instead see Emma just suddenly have a change of heart and concede to him despite all of her previous non-interest, then I hope they get called out on it. I hope media sites will report on the problematic nature of it, and that A&E will be forced to pay attention and respond.