Some Soaps May Be "Uping" Their IR Game

:arrow: Just caught a quick glance at the end of a segment of THE GUIDING LIGHT & the young bro on the soap had a hot blonde on the floor & was doing her up soap style :!: Not bad at all. Might we be seeing a lil' mo' balance now on daytime tv :?: :!:

 

why do they all have to be sex-related why can't it just be love or something.

whatever call me old fashioned.

 

Hey Blue this one could be about love as well as I don't keep up with these "shows" like I used to. :wink:

 

Was that where they wuz in the bathroom...YEAH! Because the people in the elevator lost their memory too. They was in the bathroom, got up off the floor where she noticed his pants were down. He hurried and pulled em up, but she just smiled and said, "You're hot!" Damn, I was happy. I can't remember EVER when a ww told a brotha on camera he was hot like that. They looked at each other really digging one another. Great scene.

 

I'm not sure if you understand this Blue, but on TV that's how bm/ww relationships are generally portrayed. It's always rooted sexual in nature. Presumably because any love would probably be "too real" for people to handle. Hollywood is not in the interest of being responsible for precipitating IR relationships, particularly bm/ww.

But I feel ya. I'd appreciate it if it were portrayed simply as love between a man and a woman. But remember there are a good number of people out there who don't want to see that kind of relationship flourish. And you're not old fashioned. You just see people as people.

 

Its a daytime soap and modern daytime soaps are about putting young hot men and women into sexual situations very quickly. The pure, old-fashioned, hold-off-sex-for-a-year romantic couplings are these days saved only for the young, teenager storylines (which gets racier as the teenagers age of course). And as a person who has seen far too many daytime soaps (hence my screen name) a pairing between a black man and a white woman (which is extremely rare on daytime) usually doesn't involve too much overt sexuality. The writers like to pretend they are going the romantic route but instead they are too timid to make a white woman truly lust after a black man on screen (again with rare exception). As a result the relationships end up being half-hearted and tepid hookups with all the heated chemistry of a couple of sibblings. So to learn today that a TV show from one of the most backward industries of TV actually had a white female and a black male attarcted to another in a realistic and highly sexual way (although not too sexual since this is daytime TV we're talking about) is actually a bit of progress.

 

:smt023 All 3 previous posts were right on the money about the soaps :!: :wink: Thanks :!:

 

Wished it was on SoapNet.

 

Soaps have a long way to go before they get any where near balanced.

Soap operas are actually very good at being biased against BM while pretending to be the opposite. Soap opera writers and producers seem to be averse to even putting BM with black women who are at a certain level of attractiveness.