What’s the betting this turns up in the ‘Banned Words’ thread before long??!!:-D:-D
What a load of old horse dung!
Bring back Ena Sharples - she’d sort the lot of them out with just a look!
I’m trying to think of some words which won’t!
Yes, Ena has been long missed. However, they do seem to have created a replacement now. Different appearance but similar character.
This idea that the victim is partly to blame for the sexual offences committed against them when they are minors is one of the reasons so many victims are reluctant to report this kind of abuse.
In this storyline, Kel was in a relationship with the Mother of Paul and Gemma and lived with them as a family while they were growing up, so he was acting in the role of stepfather.
To my mind, that makes Kel’s actions doubly despicable because he was taking advantage of a child’s love and admiration for him as a parent figure by grooming the lad and manipulating those feelings from his early teenage years.
The story of Paul is not suggesting that Kel’s abuse of him made him become gay - it’s about a sadly fairly common scenario of a parent or step parent who abuses the trust and vulnerability of a child and manipulates their feelings, so the child believes they are in a special relationship.
It’s a scenario I have heard several times before from adult women who still bear the psychological scars of being abused by a step father (or even their father) in what they saw at the time as a “loving relationship”, but we don’t hear about similar situations involving boys and stepfathers very often.Perhaps that is why Corrie has decided to show that it does happen to young boys too.
If Kel’s sexual interests had been in young girls and if he had been abusing Paul’s twin, Gemma, grooming her sexually from aged 14 and moving on to having full sex with her at 16, would you think she must bear some responsibility for the “affair” too?
The Law doesn’t think so, which is why there is a law against adults having sexual contact with someone under 18 if they are in a position of trust or if they have a family relationship as set out by the Sexual Offences Act, which specifically includes anyone who lives in the household and has caring responsibilities for a child as coming under the same legal obligations as a parent or a step parent.
I know Corrie is only fiction and is far-fetched and contrived a lot of the time - no one family or street are ever likely to be deluged with the constant stream of crimes, personal problems and drama that befalls the Corrie residents.
However, many of the individual storylines are a reflection of what is happening out there in the real world. They do research these individual storylines with organisations that deal with real victims and they try to reflect some of the lesser reported but real problems some people face in real life.
You raise some good points Boot, but I wasn’t suggesting that Kel should be let off scot free, of course he took advantage of the young Paul, but my beef was also with the creepy vicar Billy who is still taking advantage of a frightened and mixed up young man, under the pretence of love…
Yes, I agree with you about the vicar.
The way he gets so personally involved with some of his emotionally vulnerable parishioners is most unethical and unprofessional.
I’ve lost count of the number of people who have moved in and out of the vicar’s flat. They have all had “issues” and usually he’s hardly known them five minutes before he’s moving them in to live with him and that young girl he is supposed to be Guardian to. She seems to be the one looking after him instead of vice versa.
She is a vulnerable young girl herself and the vicar isn’t providing a healthy, balanced, stable home life for that young girl, in my opinion.
I was surprised that social services left her with the vicar after her father died when she had grandparents and even more surprised she was left there on her own to cope with the vicar when he was living through a drug addiction. :shock:
I have to keep reminding myself that it isn’t real!
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Is anybody else wondering why has has such a young girl being given such a hateful, spiteful, nasty and angry part to play at such a young age. I am referring to Hope, I know it’s only acting, but is Hope old enough to understand that it’s only acting, and will it leave an impression on her extremely impressionable personality in the future?
“Did they find your marbles? Because you must have lost them by having a baby to him” A statement by Carla to Sarah while enjoying a drink in the Rovers after Sarah was showing her ultra sound scan of the unborn infant…
Coronation Street…A gift that keeps on giving…
Interesting thought, Foxy.
She is certainly very good at playing the part, perhaps she really is a brat! 
She’s bound to always remember her first acting part though, but only time will tell whether it will effect her or not I suppose.
Give them their due. Amongst all the ‘fillings’ and surplus additional characters, they occasionally come up with a first-class storyline.
Is anyone else feeling ‘Awkward’ watching Geoff humiliate and abuse Yasmin? Coronation street seems to be getting a bit dark just lately…
And what’s with all the beards that seem to be appearing?
And Tim’s turning out to be such a plonker…
Ain’t watched it for yonks, feel better for it.
I feel like throttling Geoff for the way he humiliates Yasmin, there must be some reason why he behaves like that which will come to light soon.
Regarding beards in November, this has been happening for a few years now …
No-Shave November refers to an annual charity event where men don’t shave, groom, or cut their facial hair for the entire month of November as a way of raising awareness and money to fight cancer.
Obviously some men get used to the beard after a while.
I can proudly admit that I participated in ‘No-shave November’…
and December, and January. I did trim it at the beginning of February, though.
Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to raise any money for charity though, primarily because I wasn’t aware of the event.
Creepy, horrid little man he is.
Mind you, I don’t doubt that is probably how it is in real life for some unfortunate women.
Wasn’t there a similar storyline in the Archers some time ago with Helen and her husband?
The Geoff/Yasmin storyline has me riveted to Corrie.
One of the best storylines in a long time.
Same here not watched it for over six months now…