Michelle is jumping into bed with a dodgy roofer whom she has only just met, and is apparently about to have a sleazy affair with Ryan's best mate, schoolboy Ben.

Molly is behaving like a dog on heat every time Kevin comes sniffing around.

And Rosie will drop her knickers for anyone.

Have the scripwriters been locked up in a room somewhere for far too long, forced into celibacy until they can come up with something new?

Recently the soap has begun to look more and more like a male adolescent's fantasy.

Am 100% sure that the writers are not women, they would never allow such stereotypical slush to grace our screens 

I can't believe that the scriptwriters have come up with such a dreadful storyline as an affair between Ben and Michelle....they are really scraping the barrel with that one.  I thought the Molly / Kevin 'affair' was bad enough.  When are we just going to see a nice normal happy family move in to the street.  I mean what's next.....Blanche and Ken get together !!!!!!!!

lucky leprechaun:

I can't believe that the scriptwriters have come up with such a dreadful storyline as an affair between Ben and Michelle....they are really scraping the barrel with that one.  I thought the Molly / Kevin 'affair' was bad enough.  When are we just going to see a nice normal happy family move in to the street.  I mean what's next.....Blanche and Ken get together !!!!!!!!

Would Michelle really be bed hopping the way she is, what a role model for youngsters who may be watching.

Molly simpering is terrible to watch and we all know this is not the first time Kevin has behaved like this, it was his mates mother last time.

Surely Dev would have noticed something going on.

Where are Steve and Becky meant to be?

lucky leprechaun:

I can't believe that the scriptwriters have come up with such a dreadful storyline as an affair between Ben and Michelle....they are really scraping the barrel with that one.  I thought the Molly / Kevin 'affair' was bad enough.  When are we just going to see a nice normal happy family move in to the street.  I mean what's next.....Blanche and Ken get together !!!!!!!!

Would Michelle really be bed hopping the way she is, what a role model for youngsters who may be watching.

Molly simpering is terrible to watch and we all know this is not the first time Kevin has behaved like this, it was his mates mother last time.

Surely Dev would have noticed something going on.

Where are Steve and Becky meant to be?

To be fair - Corrie´s OLDER female characters are excellent. Blanche, Emily and Rita take some beating in any stakes.

It´s the younger and "mid -aged" ones that are truly woeful:

Michelle - "´just wait while I drop this towel and show my new boobs" -cringeworthy

Rersie - "how many times can I pout in one scene?" - vomit inducing

Molly - "how can I make my character even more witless" - woeful

Becky - "ooooh I can act common, me" - pitiful

And so it goes on - Liz is a completely redundant character, I´m sure Deirdre´s only kept in as a foil for Blanche, Eileen used to be one of the best characters on the street but has been relegated to a comedy irrelevance, Auntie Pam and Teresa - totally meaningless.

Corrie has always, for decades, been known as a showcase for the "strongNorthern woman" stereotype. Losing strength by the episode.

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lucky leprechaun:

I can't believe that the scriptwriters have come up with such a dreadful storyline as an affair between Ben and Michelle....they are really scraping the barrel with that one.  I thought the Molly / Kevin 'affair' was bad enough.  When are we just going to see a nice normal happy family move in to the street.  I mean what's next.....Blanche and Ken get together !!!!!!!!

Would Michelle really be bed hopping the way she is, what a role model for youngsters who may be watching.

Molly simpering is terrible to watch and we all know this is not the first time Kevin has behaved like this, it was his mates mother last time.

Surely Dev would have noticed something going on.

Where are Steve and Becky meant to be?

 Steve and Becky are on honeymoon.

I remember when the women on the street were strong,hard-working, staight talking, individuals.

And even Elsie Tanner, the femme fatale of the street, who would have Rosie Webster for breakfast, had certain scruples when it came to bedroom capers, for the then landlady of the Rovers - Annie Walker - would have annihilated her with a single black look if Elsie had behaved anywhere near as badly as Michelle.

Now, however, nearly every woman on the street has the morals of an alleycat.

Why don't any of them just go on dates for a while before jumping into bed, must it always be on a first date, and what sort of message is this sending out to young people for whom sexually transmitted diseases, and underage pregnancies, are becoming as commonplace as acne.

 

While I agree in part about the Street's female characters, in real life, that behaviour is very common-place. I'm not condoning it in any way but it does happen in society.

What I don't agree with is that it's happening with the likes of Molly whos doing so, is completely out of character. 

"Annie Walker would have annihilated her with a single black look if Elsie had behaved anywhere near as badly as Michelle". How times change. Just a low cut top would have had Annie Walker looking down her nose at Bet. I do agree about female characters of late though. Reflection of our times. The Manager of the Rovers is the street's bike (aka mutton dressed as lamb Liz) so she's hardly likely to behave like Annie Walker when she is 50+ but behaves and dresses as though she's still in her 20s herself. One thing I would add though about the comment made about Becky being "common" - this isn't Duchess of Duke Street it's a Manchester pub - what do people expect?!

Of course I know that it is just a backstreet pub, and there are women today who behave like Liz and Michelle.

The trouble is they do nothing for 'women' by pushing these stereotypes, indeed it only adds to the anti-feminist argument that women are really just brainless bimbos who can't live without a man between their legs. Or the male offenders argument that 'she was asking for it judge'.

I know many young women, from all backgrounds, and none of them behave so ridiculously. But for some teenage girls these stereotypes can be quite damaging.

At the moment there is only Claire, Ashley's wife, who seems to be breaking with convention by not jumping into bed with someone else, but then she is as dull as ditchwater.

Why not have a young female character who is not actually having sex with anyone but is interesting all the same, perhaps a female vicar at Emily's church who campaigns for more female clergy and gets the local community involved, or a female doctor at the practice where Gail works who helps Sally through her breast cancer ordeal.

"why not have a young female character who is not actually having sex with anyone but is interesting all the same".  We've got one like that haven't we?  Born again Christian Sophie?

rosiet2008:

"why not have a young female character who is not actually having sex with anyone but is interesting all the same".  We've got one like that haven't we?  Born again Christian Sophie?

Yes Sophie would be a good choice if it were not for the fact that scripwriters have also made her into a rather dull character.

Perhaps if Sophie were to lace Rosie's brekkie cereal with rat poison it would liven things up a bit, not to mention get rid of her irritating sister. 

So Sophie would only be an interesting character if she committed murder? The Tony Gordon's have a lot to answer for!