Soaps: Why?

[Matheous-2]

Probably need some male support here, but why do you ladies watch such drivel? - I wouldn't mind so much if any of them had a decent plot or story....!
They just seem to revolve around some of the rubbish people type on FB and other social sites. Either there is a dramatic car-crash which of course ends up with the obligatory dreaded 'hospital scene' .....Wouldn't even be so bad if they incorporated socially unacceptable bad habits - you all know what these are -just to encourage better social conscience & responsibility.
Sorrow if I'm a killjoy here- probably because I don't have the bravery I would need to complain to my own female family members, but I feel there must be much better 'soap' writers out there that don't depend on the often very good acting ability I have seen on the major soaps who really work hard to carry off such feeble story-lines who could really add imagination and flair to this daily drivel.

[woofgang]

another lady here who has never watched them....I might ask though in the same spirit, why “you gentlemen” watch the drivel that is football?

[AlwaysConfused]

I'm not keen on soaps but I put up with them. My husband watches them all.

[marval]

I don't watch them, the story lines always seem to be the same.