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Topic History of: Eastenders bottles the real issues in Society
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BR |
There may have been children who are in abusive situations watching Eastenders.
What they saw was that the Police arrive in 10 mins and they arrest immediately and charge within 3 days.
Is this the reality ?
If it is not - and I would suggest that in most cases it can take months and even years for a case to be decided upon and evidence gathered that actually proves a crime - then how upset will a child be if they report a crime then find out that unlike Eastenders they may not even be believed and without any proof none of the things that happened in Eastenders take place.
It is a fairy story - which has a phone number at the end. In addition how many children who will misunderstand what actually was taking place - and misconstrue innocent things as abuse ? we never saw abuse taking place - it was just hinted at - and some kids really are naive about such things. Now they could be worried that their step dad or youth worker is nice to them !!!
I personally do not think a soap opera should try and cover something which it cant do - because of the watershed and because the real truth is too shocking.
The story did not work - and it showed up the limitations of a 7.30p.m soap opera.
Soap operas are for entertainment ? not to try and be part education. Leave the education to the experts. The reality of child abuse was only captured in one second in the whole thing - when Bianca threw up after realising what she had been told. In fact that is the first reaction - the second is to be almost physically be pinned down onto a bed by the shock and feel as if your head is being ripped off......they managed the first - but failed the second and by doing that and turning it into a "speech" totally missed the horror.
REAL child abuse is horrible and nasty and has no place on prime time TV in the name of entertainment. it has been turned into a spectator sport by our government and media - like a PANTO.
While we have people at the top of our Police and Judiciary who are involved in such things and in Social Services - we have no hope of stopping such things in society. Real abuse often goes unpunished and you can read about countless examples of Social Services failing abused kids if you look at news sites this week.
Sorry - it is too important a subject to take lightly. Lives are ruined both by real abuse AND BY false allegations. People's careers and reputations are ruined because the seriousness of such things has been undermined - now kids think it fun to make a false allegation or a financial incentive to someone who has failed in their career or life. There are even some who feign it now in order to get attention because they are suffering low self esteem and want to be a victim.
By making entertainment TV from such issues you encourage such things in my view and make the likelhood of real abuse easier for those real abusers out there. |
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Angel |
I don't think it fair to say that the storyline was WRONG. Even if it is " very, very, very rare" it happens and surely that is all that matters? An interesting point made in a TV review was that Tony was a shifty, creepy type. It would have been more believable if his character was the complete opposite. Good point. |
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BR |
This is the problem everywhere.
Schools are handing out contraception from 11 years old.
According to most surveys 60% of 16 year olds have had sex - and very few have no sexual experiences by the "age of consent"
The question as asked on here before is what to do about this ?
In addition in poor neighbourhoods ( as mentioned in my original post ) maybe as many as 20% of teenage girls are in sex slavery to drugdealer boyfriends etc. who are inevitably in their late teens or 20s.
The TONY storyline was wrong - because it is very very very rare for a Youth Worker to be involved in sexual relationships with under age kids. When they break paedo rings it usually is lawyers - care workers - police who are involved. Teachers - Vicars and Youth Workers always get a bad press but rarely do people who "CARE" about kids actually do them harm - that is another manipulation by New Labour's media to actually make children feel more isolated.
I feel the Government and Police and media actually are encouraging child abuse through their policies. I would take a much harder line about the drug issues and schools should not be handing out contraception like sweeties.
I also feel very sorry for any child having to face a bombardment of sexual images via TV - films - games from the age of around 7 years old ( remember the pole dancing kits - the playboy undies etc ) and for them to try and make sense of it - especially if they live in sink estates and go to poor schools and are financially poor. Their only way to a flat/home of their own is to have a child as young as possible and the income that comes with it.
Eastenders is so unrealistic it has become almost a pantomime in the way it is treating issues. It has lost any grit it used to have. Real shame. |
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mikemacca |
The entire programme is completely unrealistic JK. I used to work in the East End of London (Tower Hamlets area). 75% of my clients were Asian or black, every market stall was run by Asian people and any pub was not the kind of place you would want to go in.
Albert Square doesn't even have a mosque.
I liked the bit where Bianca took 3 long syllables to say "pee-dough-file" and Tiffany's face curled back in horror. My colleague's wife is a school teacher locally (south Yorkshire) and she says a third of the 12/13 year old girls are already sexually active with older boys or men. That's the reality of it |
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veritas |
actually The Bill does often carry good story lines that reflect real life and they don't always show the cops in the best light or as always being right. |
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