Once Upon a Time is , for the most part , a pretty harmless show . It ’s about a group of fairytale character who are taken out from the Enchanted Forest and force to live in our modern reality , regaining the memory of who they were and struggling to equilibrize their sure-enough lives with their unexampled unity . Also , Anna from Frozen taught Prince Charminghow to swordfight . It ’s kind of dumb , okay ? However , there ’s one resignedly horrible storyline the show regrettably keeps come back to , let in in one of its latest episodes : Magical rape .
In the first installment of last Friday ’s two - parter ( ahead of the Thanksgiving vacation ) , entitle “ Eloise Gardener , ” we last acquire the true identity of Wish Realm Hook ’s daughter , as well as how she was conceived in the first place . In inadequate , it ’s rape .
Hook make out across Rapunzel chilling in her tower , and she asks him to help oneself her get free of an evil witch ’s curse with the magic of a favorable flower , because dishevel . After Hook brave out the wrath of a giant garden dwarf ( it ’s OUAT , do n’t oppugn it ) to pander said flower , Hook nobly turn by from his desire to steal the efflorescence for himself and instead brings it back to Rapunzel . She thanks him by immediately push him into the bedroom , which Hook readily accept . Keep in thinker , this is when he thinks she ’s a dulcet , tolerant womanhood who ’s emphatically not a witch in camouflage .
Only , psych , she is ! It was Mother Gothel all along . She disguised herself as Rapunzel so she could spang Hook without raise his suspicion ( because he probably would n’t want to bone the hag he ’s actively been prove to forefend the whole episode ) . And that ’s not all — their one night of mania results in a baby , which Mother Gothel vapid - out abandon in the tower because that ’s the only way she can escape . Then , Hook admirably gives up his life at sea to raise his girl . Of course , it ’s a daughter he did n’t consent to have in the first place , and she ’s trapped in a tower forever because a witch love him under fictive pretenses .
There are so many thing wrong with this storyline ( admit how , in the real cosmos , Hook saves Gothel from imprisonment , unknowingly rescuing the char who attack him ) , but I ’m only going to focus on one : Hook did not give consent to have sex with Mother Gothel , he gave consent to have sex activity with Rapunzel . Therefore , their gender was non - consensual . Much like how , in Revenge of the Nerds , Lewis disguised himselfas uber - athlete Stan so he could have sex with Stan ’s girlfriend , Gothel technically commit colza against Hook .
This would be spoiled enough , if this precise same plot line had n’t already happened on Once Upon a Time . Oh yeah , this is the 2nd time they ’ve done the “ mask oneself as another woman ensue in rape babe ” game point , only that time it was in reality a drained char : In season four , Zelena witch herself to look and voice like Robin Hood ’s wife Marian ( whom he did n’t know was actually dead ) . After they lived together for awhile , from time to time blinking because he reckon she was his wife , Zelena ended up getting meaning , on determination , and had a child against the wish of basically everyone around her .
That ’s just the point of the iceberg when it comes to confutable sex drill on this serial . One of the worst offenses was how , in the first season , Regina slip a man ’s spunk and made him into her sex slave for years . In the serial publication , taking someone ’s heart means you have sodding control condition over their actions , mean her lover Graham was forced to do things he could not say no to . Meanwhile , Rumplestiltskin and Belle ’s whole relationship was about his abusiveness , to the point where talk over all of its job would take a separate stake . You ’ve stick Zelena turning a fly monkey into a man and make him rent in a month - farsighted human relationship with Emma . And finally , there was the time when King Arthur cast a spell on Guinevere to take out her complimentary will , force her to draw a blank about her true love Lancelot and become his beloved queen . And opine what : She ’s never freed from the spell .
All of these situations are awful in their own right ( and there areother consent concernsI’ve heard about but do n’t fully match with ) , but it ’s important to note how most of the example involve rape have charwoman as the raper and men as the victim — the exclusion being Emma and the fly monkey , though that was perpetrated by Zelena , so it was still under a woman ’s command . This verbalise volumes about how big these storylines are , because they have n’t put woman in the same position . If it ’s something you ca n’t imagine putting your distaff fiber through , there ’s no justification for swop the genders and doing the same thing . Not only does it demeanmale victims of sexual violation , but it also wreak into the stereotype that adult male are more okay with shifty , refutable , or non - consensual sex exercise just because they ’re men .
In the last , it ’s a horrifying , disgusting premise . No one should guess they ’re cause love to their consensual partner , only to find out they fucked someone else . No matter your dupe ’s gender identity , it ’s not okay . Something wrong has been allowed to take place on this show , and for some reason it continue to take position . Once was already too much , Once Upon a metre .
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