Gay saturation.

[Tarot]

Is anyone else sick to death of all the gay storylines on all the soaps,Emerdale,Eastenders,Coronation street,Hollyoaks.Its before the watershed time.

Its too promiscuos and totally rammed in our faces.Ridiculous, Time to TURN Off.

[Blah Blah]

Is anyone else sick to death of all the heterosexual storylines on all the soaps,Emerdale,Eastenders,Coronation street.

Do you have any idea how ridiculous your post is?

[Tarot]

Facts are facts, it has changed the soaps beyond reconition the writers seemed to have spent a get together for drinks and storylines in Heaven.

We are all aware of the great struggle of the gays getting accepted etc etc but now its gone into overdrive.

[JohnL]

Ooh - don't watch Game of Thrones then :)

[Salsaboy]

Or Banana.

[Tarot]

Dont you mean Cucumber.

[Blah Blah]

Hmmm so gay characters have changed soaps over violence, murder, tram crashes and all the other ridiculous storylines that writers dream up?

Because they are just that - gay characters. There's no such thing as a gay storyline. There are storylines about falling in love, or out of love, or being cheated on etc. It just happens that sometimes the charracters involved are gay. Mostly though they are heterosexual. And it doesn't bother most people either way. The only fact is that you are bothered by it.

[Tarot]

The majority of all the soaps have now focused on gay storylines and its overkill Like it or not.

Maybe they might write something interesting for a change, who knows

[Blah Blah]

But aren't we talking about gay characters over gay storylines?

The only storyline I can think of that is specifically gay would be a coming out storyline. Otherwise we are just talking about storylines that could be equally asigned to gay or heterosexual characters?

I think your gripe is more to do with the number of gay characters? And you might be right (I don't watch all the soaps) in that suddenly gay characters are featured in a lot of storylines. Soaps have a tendancy to follow trends in order to attract viewers. So if one soap does something, and gets its ratings up as a result, all the others follow, no?

Personally, if I were a soap writer (and I'm not lol), I would be now writing a storyline around a jihadist grooming theme. THAT would be topical and bound to attract viewers and debate etc.

I agree that a gay character is no longer controversial, but it's a good thing surely that soaps now think nothing of having gay characters. I was a young teen when Brookside made Beth Jordash a lesbian, and remember how ground breaking that was. Being a bloke I thought it was great of course :D But seriously, I want a world where soaps speak to everyone (no mean feat) and I think we need to seperate characters (and their characteristics) from storylines, because the two are different.

[keekybreeks]

I am just pissed off that people actually watch this shite. the content is sorta irrelevant then

[Blah Blah]

lol true keeky :D

But try telling the missus that! She watches everything.....

[Tarot]

Maybe they should think of the confused young kids watching.

An overhaul of the watershed by the programme controllers would be in order.

They are violent and pretty stupid.

[uncleglen]

I'm sick to death of the anti-gay sniping, failure to address equality issues surrounding LBGT , comments and general ignorance of homosexuality that goes unchallenged in faith schools. If you send your little darling to a faith school you had better hope and 'pray' that he/she is not gay

[KidKruger]

Why would kids be confused about people having relationships with people, regardless of their gender ?

Surely you could only confuse them if you're trying to tell them one way is wrong when messages from elsewhere say that way is OK.

[Earl Aelfheah]

I don't watch the soaps, what do you mean by 'gay story lines'? Do you mean that there are too many gay characters.... Are you worried about realism? What's the watershed got to do with it?

[Otta]

For some reason there are two identical threads, so I accidently posted in the other one.

Otta Wrote:

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Is it just because it's gay stuff or would you feel the same if a similar lever of promiscuity was being shown between a hetro couple at that time?

I don't watch the soaps, but they are supposed to represent life in a community. Communities include gay people.

[Tarot]

Your realism is not the same as most,you must consider how these issuses affect young mindsand the water shed was supposed to have been set up for this use. As for faith schools, they should be scrapped they are the most brainwashing cults still practicing in the twenty first century. So called holy men, just didnt want to work for a living.

Political correctness.is followed by i,s Aka as indescribable sxxt.

There are too many gay storylines all behaving badly.thats a fact.

[Otta]

Tarot Wrote:

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> Your realism is not the same as most,you must

> consider how these issuses affect young mindsand

> the water shed was supposed to have been set up

> for this use.

I'm all for my kids growing up knowing that some people are gay and that's normal and fine.

But I'm not really all for them growing up watching soaps.

> As for faith schools, they should be

> scrapped they are the most brainwashing cults

> still practicing in the twenty first century.

I'm all for getting rid of faith schools, but that statement is a nonsense.

[Otta]

JohnL Wrote:

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> Ooh - don't watch Game of Thrones then :)

Haha, I love GoT, but they really could do with cutting down on the tits and arse (and gratuitous torture). It's like soft porn (and and straight) at times.

[aquarius moon]

I stopped watching all the soaps years ago. I've no idea how many gay stories there are but most of the storylines are ridiculous so it makes no difference. Look at the amount of deaths that feature in soaps. It's hardly 'real life', just done to draw the viewers in. And a murder every few weeks, shown before the watershed. I think it's a bit silly complaining about something as silly as soaps when nonsense is to be expected.

Just watch something else instead.

[Tarot]

According to most storylines the whole world is gay,

Its not, probably there are too many gay writers and producers and they are having a a field day.

Game of Thrones,is after the water shed by the way.

Faith schools have nothing to do with education and how do brain washing and intelligence work together .

The soaps will drop viewers, not many won awards this time. Maybe they will dissapear, and take all these soppy talent programmes with them,.

Simon Cowells pets have filled most of the jobs on t.v. his programmes have monopolised the t.v.Alan Sugars no marks are dominant too. The Voice is pathetic, and old Tom Jones should go back to his welsh care home,keep shouting,Oh yeah. We need our licence money back the football should cover their losses. T.V S..

rubbish.

[Jeremy]

Not sure of you're offended by the suggestion that homosexuality is normal, or that you feel it's overrepresented. But certainly the fact that you feel such storylines are inappropriate for children makes you look rather prejudiced.

But basically these are daft shows made for stupid, boring people, so probably best not to watch in the first place.

[Blah Blah]

Yeah I agree Jeremy.

That last post from you Tarot says to me that you are scared of gay people, and their representation in programmes your children might watch. If you actually knew anything about sexuality, and it takes many forms, not just gay or heterosexual, you'd know that most people don't choose how they are. Do you really think all those heterosexual storylines are what make children turn out heterosexual? Tell me, how did you CHOOSE your sexual preference?

What is known from data, is that in the past, gay children suffered huge traumatic stress in having to keep their feelings secret. Imagine that Tarot. A world where 90% are gay and you are one of the 10% heterosexuals. You see no characters on TV like you and no-one ever talks about your straighness in anything but negative terms. Some people even wnat to put you in jail for it, or worse still hang you.

See how ridiculous your comments are?

But it seems you don't like much else on tv either. You don't have to watch. There are many other forms of content to watch. Netflix is very good.

[KidKruger]

Instead of watching disappointing TV you could read some self-help books on how to overcome prejudice against gay representation.

BTW - so what if the entire world WAS gay, do you think the world wouldn't actually be a better place ?!

[edcam]

Get a life tarot, you're a pathetic homophobe.