jammyemi replied to your post: Each time I see the shit argument of ‘...
This argument really is shit and your gif sums up my feelings perfectly. I honestly worry about people and how they can actually think these things. It’s the same argument as used for Hook ‘stealing’ Miliah and I think it’s disgusting.
Yeah, exactly. So, ahem, don't mind me while I go on a rant. What gets me each time is the reasoning for this argument and how they see Emma's role in it. It is ultra gross, because in saying "she was coerced" they take away every part of her agency she had in this scene and reduce her to a helpless victim being manipulated by the bad, evuhl man.
But...but she was emotionally vulnerable at this point
I see this all the time and holy shit, fucking seriously? As if she would lose all ability to reason or step back, just because Hook tapped his lips. Again, this is super gross in its implication of her role in this scene, reducing her to a passive part with no agency or possibility to give or withhold her consent. Also being emotional or not, if Emma Swan doesn't want to kiss someone, -- or to be kissed -- she will let her counterpart clearly know this.
He baited her into this (kiss)
I think the correct word being used here should be 'flirting.' Which was actually a mutual back and forth between both characters, where Emma at no time was in any obligation to humor him, nor to stay. In using the word "baiting" they once more shove Emma into the role of the passive victim. Spoiler alert: Not a good thing. The thing is Emma had the whole time the choice whether to stay or turn around and go. Hook never forced her to stay, nor made a physical approach toward her. She did. It was her choice to make an advance on him and eventually to kiss him. In saying it was Hook's bait or ~emotional pressure~, they take away her active part and choice in this situation.
Of course everyone is free to interpret the scene how they want, but if this contains such a problematic notion -- which reducing an independent and strong-willed female character to a victim without any agency clearly is -- they are doing this interpretation thing fucking wrong.