[droogiefret]

It seems almost hardwired - but why?

[November_Rain]

That's quite a sweeping generalisation droogie, I'm sure there's plenty of exceptions to the 'rule', just as there is with men and football.

Conversely I'm a man and I like soaps, but I don't like football, and I'm straight before you ask.

[alan29]

I think they are pretty-well aimed at women, with their strong women/moronic men storylines.

[Mallaha]

It's not "hard-wired" at all.
I'm a woman and I never watch soaps. I don't own a TV and only use iplayer for certain comedy programmes and Dragons' Den.

[kizzie]

I don't watch any soaps but I know quite a few men who do.

[_Laura_]

Why do men like football?

Dont stereotype

[netcurtains]

I'm a woman and I don't watch soaps or X factor, or Strictly come ice skating or Britain lacks talent or any of that kind of stuff.

[alan29]

Originally Posted by netcurtains

I'm a woman and I don't watch soaps or X factor, or Strictly come ice skating or Britain lacks talent or any of that kind of stuff.

But I bet you fall over every time you are chased through the woods though.

[simmons_5251]

Originally Posted by November_Rain

That's quite a sweeping generalisation droogie, I'm sure there's plenty of exceptions to the 'rule', just as there is with men and football.

Conversely I'm a man and I like soaps, but I don't like football, and I'm straight before you ask.

how much is there to like about a soap?

colour? smell? cleaning ability? anything else?

[alan29]

Originally Posted by simmons_5251

how much is there to like about a soap?

colour? smell? cleaning ability? anything else?

The way that pubes get stuck in them.

[trevalyan]

Originally Posted by droogiefret

It seems almost hardwired - but why?

that's easy - drama

they get off on that stuff, they love it in their own lives too. that's why bad boys are very popular, they bring drama, uncertainty and excitement to relationships, and women just love it





DISCLAIMER: many women, not all

[simmons_5251]

Originally Posted by alan29

The way that pubes get stuck in them.

HAH!

[zx50]

Originally Posted by _Laura_

Why do men like football?

Dont stereotype

Precisely. I can't STAND football.

[The Exiled Dub]

I know many women who detest soaps, and men who watch them religiously.

[kizzie]

Originally Posted by alan29

But I bet you fall over every time you are chased through the woods though.

Its the law!

[simmons_5251]

Originally Posted by alan29

I think they are pretty-well aimed at women, with their strong women/moronic men storylines.

to be fair, the anti-septic ones are aimed at paranoid people

[Mrs Teapot]

Originally Posted by droogiefret

It seems almost hardwired - but why?

When you are chained to the kitchen sink it is lovely to have a sense of drama, adventure, life and excitement

And if you believe that

[netcurtains]

Originally Posted by alan29

But I bet you fall over every time you are chased through the woods though.

I hope to never find out

[DCI Hunt's Girl]

My mum watches Coronation Street and sometimes I watch it too, but a lot of the time I'm not that bothered about it because soaps aren't my thing.

Science-fiction and fantasy however - I absolutely love it, just about all my fave TV shows are in those two genres!

[neon tiger]

Because Blanche off Corrie is so funny! It's not just women though, my little brother loves it!

[droogiefret]

Goodness you're a touchy lot

I am not sterotyping and if it offends I will withdraw the 'hard wired' word.

But is anyone seriously contending that just as many men enjoy soaps as women? We are talking Corrie, Emmerdale and that main BBC one (seriously I'm not being funny - but it's name has gone completely out of my head ....Eastenders!)

Is it not the case that far more women than men like these soaps? There's nothing judgemental in the question - there's no sub agenda - I'm just trying to understand why?

You would, after all, expect both sexes to be equally interested. There's nothing overtly obvious about why soaps appeal to women more than men - but they do.

So why?

[simmons_5251]

Originally Posted by droogiefret

Goodness you're a touchy lot

I am not sterotyping and if it offends I will withdraw the 'hard wired' word.

But is anyone seriously contending that just as many men enjoy soaps as women? We are talking Corrie, Emmerdale and that main BBC one (seriously I'm not being funny - but it's name has gone completely out of my head ....Eastenders!)

Is it not the case that far more women than men like these soaps? There's nothing judgemental in the question - there's no sub agenda - I'm just trying to understand why?

You would, after all, expect both sexes to be equally interested. There's nothing overtly obvious about why soaps appeal to women more than men - but they do.

So why?

cause men dont like to wash their hands, women do

[Orangemaid]

I am woman, and i like soaps too..I use imperial leather the mild one...

Oh the other soaps you mean..lol.

[Babe Rainbow]

At least when we watch soaps we don't have to :

Watch it all again six times in slow motion action replay

Buy the official t shirt for £50 over and over again every year every time they change two stripes on the badge.

Listen to interminable post mortem chatter about the exact way Dev stood as he passed the packet of tea bags to Blanche and she passed back the £1.27p nd whether or not the director should have noticed that he was standing in between her and the till.

Spend two hours round the water cooler in the morning discussing whether Rita deserves to be paid £x and whether she should be moved to EE for £y

Spent forty minutes rhapsodising about Roy's delivery of one particular line when that is in fact ......... er............ his job.

[Lady Discordia]

I absolutely hate soaps XD

Give me Merlin, Spooks, Heroes, Flash Forward, anything decent, but don't even try to get me to watch soaps XD