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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ome" data-source="post: 385275" data-attributes="member: 2">I think this is partly to the changing times and how we live.  As I still watch and very much enjoy the soaps, it’s hard to see that great characters like Blanche, Les, Ivy from Corrie, Edna and Seth from Emmerdale will never be replaced because it feels like they can’t have misogynistic, homophobic and racist characters any more.  As I watch Classic Corrie and Classic Emmerdale I see the main difference between them and now is that the majority (if not all) of current characters appear to be tolerant of everyone.  It’s like the producers want to hide away the reality of communities like they have removed all the smokers.  Plus with so many people feeling offended by almost everything, they stick a warning or a helpline.</blockquote>