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6 comments:
What a really great interview! I like his point about soaps being able to help change society's views on things. Corrie was an important part in getting the law changed to allow Transgendered people to be able to change their birth certificates by bringing Hayley and her problems to the forefront.
Disagree. I like Corrie to entertain me - not to act as a quasi-parliamentary lobbyist and at the moment it's doing too much of the latter and too little of the former.
I agree. Too many ignorant people out there, it's nice to be informed as well as entertained.
It was the European Court of Human Rights that prompted the change in the law allowing Transgendered People to alter their birth certificates. Soaps can raise awareness of issues, but I doubt they have much influence and far far too much is being claimed for them here.
I think it did make a difference in raising the awareness in the first place.
Top bloke and sounds really grounded. I like him a lot on the show too.
Shows like Corrie are a great vehichle for raising awareness. Showing how easy it is for somebody like Harold to become Hayley, to live and work in a normal street, with normal people and it's not at all "freakish". Where as usually getting the point accross to somebody like my dear old gran for example, (from another age granted) would have been impossible. Again seeing Sean and Marcus raising Dylan together every episode softens somebody's mind who may have been firmly against gay parenting previously etc
Though sometimes they can appear too preachy...ie the transvestite story. So it goes to show that it really has to be done slowly over time so we get to know and care about the characters and not something that can be shoved in between Norris selling lemon bon bons, one of Becky's freaky's and a quick scene in the factory.... then it's over!
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