Blacks In Soaps or How To Be On a Daytime Drama For Years and Never Have a Real Storyline

[SFK]

Thanks friend. I was only gone for about two weeks, went on vacation, and found it strangely difficult to jump back in.

[marceline]

You noticed that too huh? Once you take a real break, the momentum disappears.

For the record, I missed you too.

Who, ironically enough, was played by Aisha Tyler.

[Titus Andronicus]

I was reading an interview from last year with Patsy Pease and she had this to say:

http://www.welovesoaps.net/2009/07/we-love-soaps-how-did-you-know-that-kim.html

[DRW50]

Thanks for posting that. Patsy had a lot of interesting comments. I wish she'd talked more about her days on Search.

[R Sinclair]

Does anyone know what "Politically Correct" really means anymore? When you're for something, I hear people against saying you're being Politically Correct. When you're against something, I hear people for saying you're being Politically Correct. I ask, because California, from where I'm sitting here in Connecticut where gay marriage is legal, doesn't seem to be all that politically correct as this Patsy Pease is claiming it to be. I never used the term in an argument for or against anything because I never really understood what it meant.

[Ann_SS]

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[SFK]

Yeah, I think she got her terminology jumbled. Her example of shutting down an interracial relationship is what I (and most people) would call politically incorrect. Y&R making the switch to faux furs in the '90s, politically correct.

[MontyB]

A soap opera or any TV show adding blacks or other minorities just to appease those that are complaining is another form of being "politically correct" some would say.

[marceline]

Politically correct is one of those terms that's lost all meaning. Basically it means that somebody doesn't like the result and feels it favors some undeserving "other." When somebody who is used to being catered to discovers their needs and wants are no longer at the top of the agenda they tend to be the ones who use the term "politically correct."

[MontyB]

I wouldn't say it's lost it's meaning because what you've stated still applies 100%, but it's just evolved as with many adjectives.

[SFK]

So P.C. has pretty much lost its inoffensive/thoughtful/considerate/right and just connotations and become a pejorative for whiners who didn't get their way?

[marceline]

Just look at the people who use it and the circumstances under which they use it. It's almost always someone complaining about being forced to think about someone or something they consider unimportant.

It's an out of date term that basically should've fallen by the wayside with "Show me the money."

[SFK]

Gotcha. The early '90s don't seem that long ago, but yeah, they really were in ways beyond calendar years.

[MontyB]

Ha Ha. Yeah, that basically how it's used today.

I've noticed that a lot of Conservatives use it against Liberals.

[R Sinclair]

Preach it, sista! I almost stood up!!