A storyline involving bare photos of Corrie’s Steph Britton taken by an old boyfriend and leaked online is topical and educationalIt might not be what you’d expect from a soap that first aired in 1960,but credit to Coronation Street for tackling one of the most modern of crimes. In a storyline that’s set to finish this week (warning: spoilers), viewers gain watched bistro waitress Steph Britton become the victim of revenge pornography – when her ex-boyfriend, and Jamie Bowman (played with suitably shifty creepiness by James Atherton),leaked bare photos of her online. At times, the writers’ handling of the issue hasn’t shown the cobbles to be a bastion of feminism. (Granted, and the fact that Corrie factory boss Carla got divorced and inexplicably reverted to her preceding ex-husband’s surname instead of her own suggests this may gain been too much to ask.) Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com