Coronation street and Eastenders backlash

[katrina1987]

Hears the story

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/soaps/3329005/Coronation-Street-and-EastEnders-face-viewer-backlash-over-New-Year-plots.html

 

[dani_tinks]

Yup EE deserve those complaints.
However Corrie... people are complaining about a lesbian kiss? I'm astonished. It angers me how narrow minded people are.

 

[Hollys_Twinny]

I agree that making Ronnie steal kats baby overshadowed the real message of cot death. I was sat in horror as I watched it. I completly disagree with the complaints over a lesbian kiss though, its sad to think that there are still narrow minded people out there who think people can catch gay-ness!!! We've seen plenty of males kiss on soaps, its madness.

 

[katrina1987]

I think to be honest don't like it, don't watch there's plenty more channels lol. Well I better stop my LO from sitting down with me watching Corrie only joking lol. it's rediculous

 

[LankyDoodle]

I agree EE deserved complaints; however, as usual, I hate the way that the sun have written this to make it sound like people are complaining about SIDS being shown full stop 'gruesome cot death'. Ugh, it just irks me so much! It's lazy on the behalf of the 'journalist' who wrote it! It's offensive to people who have lost babies this way. It's patronising to viewers. They do go on to qualify what they said, which is fine, but it's just not appropriate to use those kinds of words in my opinion.

Not sure about Corrie as not really a regular viewer, but I thought they'd done a 'gay' storyline before. Are we in the middle ages then?!

 

[Char.due.jan]

'glamourising' lesbianism?! LMAO never heard such a ridiculous thing... 'two pretty teens young girls will look up to' oh riiight so pretty girls cannot be lesbians can they! I really don't get how narrow minded some people can be!

 

[Always&4ever]

Wow, i'm shocked people complained about Corrie, I can see why with Eastenders, but I think EE have dealt with the sensitive and heartbreaking storyline very well

 

[AP]

Lmfao corrie? I'm offended others are offended

 

[Laura2919]

Well they arent wrong at EE. Corrie didnt bother me to be honest.

 

[littlepne]

Complaints about Sophie and Sian? The Sally and Tyrone thing has affected me more!!!! Maybe we should all put in a complaint about that...

Seriously though, a convicted murderer can get released and practically steal her daughter from the only home the girl's known and that's perfectly fine but two girls kissing and people can't dial ofcom fast enough!

 

[Linzi]

Complaints about Sophie and Sian? The Sally and Tyrone thing has affected me more!!!! Maybe we should all put in a complaint about that...

Seriously though, a convicted murderer can get released and practically steal her daughter from the only home the girl's known and that's perfectly fine but two girls kissing and people can't dial ofcom fast enough!

Me too, doesn't mix well with morning sickness

It said in that article that people were offended by them glamorising gay couples or something? Rather than actually being offended by the characters being gay... Didn't bother me tbh don't see how it could possibly have been offensive xxx

 

[odd_socks]

its ashame there is so many narrowminded people out there. The enders baby sawp story was bloody wrong though, deffo overshadowed the cot death issue

 

[littlepne]

Complaints about Sophie and Sian? The Sally and Tyrone thing has affected me more!!!! Maybe we should all put in a complaint about that...

Seriously though, a convicted murderer can get released and practically steal her daughter from the only home the girl's known and that's perfectly fine but two girls kissing and people can't dial ofcom fast enough!

Me too, doesn't mix well with morning sickness

It said in that article that people were offended by them glamorising gay couples or something? Rather than actually being offended by the characters being gay... Didn't bother me tbh don't see how it could possibly have been offensive xxx

Doesn't make sense does it. Murder, rape, cot death etc. can all be "glamourised" by the soaps. Personally, I like the Sophie and Sian storyline.

 

[special_kala]

Oh heavens no teenage girls looking up to two young girls comfortable with their sexuality! what is the world coming too!

 

[AppleBlossom]

*sigh*

Have people really got nothing better to do with their time?

 

[special_kala]

I actualy read someone say how it was basically porn...yet the amount of times you see a man and woman in bed together in the soaps and no one bats a eye lid.

 

[AppleBlossom]

Not being funny but I have seen Glenda in EE bed Phil AND Ian.... That is far more disturbing than any lesbian kissing scene

 

[special_kala]

Not being funny but I have seen Glenda in EE bed Phil AND Ian.... That is far more disturbing than any lesbian kissing scene

Very true!