Wuffters in soaps

[frankiegth]

Strikes me they're a lot more sympathetic in the "dales" than they are daughn the smoke. ;D

Then there's the embryonic lesbo job going off in Corro.

Bl**dy 'ell I ought ta get out more. ;D

Only three months to the footie kickin' off aggen.

[robotsmfc]

I don't own a TV. I've ended up being well versed in all the latest soap storylines as a consequence of the Easter hols though

[peekay]

Not the most sensitive term you've used there Frankie.

[loy PRA]

As someone who isn't usually an ardent follower of soaps, I tend to get in the house around this time and hoy the TV on as a bit of background noise and caught two of the storylines (the emmerdale one and the coronation street one, as they seem to follow each other.)

I've got no problems with the storylines per se, but they appear to be exposing homosexuality as something new and cataclysmic of which society has never seen before. Now, I was brought up with gay people as my mother worked in the great haven of homosexual people, the British Civil Service, and as a child could not tell them apart from anybody else. When it was explained they liked the same sex I did initially find it puzzling when there were girls like that bird out of Londons Burning in the world, but still remained fairly nonchalant.

Over the course of my life a few of the friends i've acquired and people i work with are gay. They appear to be comically normal, and rarely fit any one stereotype and out of all the people I know are free from drama and pretty comfortable with who they are. The soaps appear to portray homosexuality as something that jumps out on you at inopportune moments when you let your guard down.

So I think it's more of a cynical ratings grab thing, although I was turned on by the lesbian kiss in coronation street I felt very, very dirty afterwards as those girls could not have been older than 16. Still though, least they showed it as more of a positive thing.

[ambersalamander]

That's exactly my own opinion, although I never watch soaps. My mum used to watch EastEnders though, and I do remember the first lesbian kiss on there. It was so widely talked about that I was puzzled - I just thought "so what?" Most gay people I know are comically normal too, although there are one or two who are deliberately and outrageously camp, probably because of the very attitude that you touch upon there, Loy.

[frankiegth]

Apr 27, 2010 9:02:44 GMT peekay said:

Not the most sensitive term you've used there Frankie.

Just felt like being a bit naughty.

I've a couple of nephews that are gay, I've no problem with homosexuality, I just don't want it to be made compulsary.