Oh boy, did I just see the BEST ever response to those morons who constantly tout CS/Hook= promotion of rape culture. This chick handed the haters their backsides, with a side dish of butt whip to go with it lol 😉
Apparently we need a definition:
Rape: 1. the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse. 2. Any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person. 3.statutory rape. 4. An act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside. 5. Archaic. the act of seizing and carrying off by force.
Hook has done none of these things. (Well, at least to Emma in the way being discussed here)
I am patently uncomfortable with comparing a man pursuing a woman romantically to rape. The term “rape culture” is being horribly misused here, if I’m not mistaken. (Iirc, it’s about cultures tolerating and normalizing rape, not men trying to win women over)
& this one gets an honorable mention 😉
This thread has become so frustrating because some people, not just Edt, seem to take the stance that it was rape like or compare it to date rape and refuse to look at the facts of the situations.
The problem I have is when you compare it to rape, you trivialize what rape truly is. If you call rape when there is none, who’s to believe you when there is? It’s the little boy who called wolf. And it’s insulting to women to assume that they can’t control their signals. And, dare I say, insulting to the majority of men who don’t rape women?
The other problem I have is that these people are ignoring the obvious intent of the writers. They are trying to force a real problem onto a fictional situation that was obviously written to develop the relationship of two characters falling in love.
Emma and Hook are one of the great love stories on this show, if not the best. And to compare it to rape is insulting to men, women, and the writers.
For some weird reason *snigger* the haters shut up & left the discussion after that LMAO