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Search term Sun-gay

In ms elaine e. ouse, pcp news on September 11, 2011 at 6:19 pm

As you may be aware Pop Culture Playpen has been taken over by Emmas.

There is a theme to this week’s Search Term Sunday, see if you can guess what it is. The title might give a you clue… Happy GAY Sunday!

No gays were hurt in the making of this article, and this really wasn’t hard to do as most of the terms people searched for involved either something gay or pornographic. (We count naked Jensen Ackles as fitting into both these categories.)

And dragons. No gay dragons as yet though. Disappointing. Upsetting. I demand to pet a gay dragon right NOW.

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Emmas of Pop Culture

In comical, dr ella mentary, ms elaine e. ouse, screenshots, tv kicks on September 11, 2011 at 1:53 am

The Emmas have taken over.

The regular Pop Culture Playpen team have temporally left civilisation and have no contact with the internet. As such they have foolishly left two silly women who go by the name of Emma in charge.

We would like to take this opportunity to promote awareness of an issue that we are particularly concerned with.

Although we, the Emmas, disagree on how to pronounce this name (Em-er Vs Eh-mah) we have put aside our differences to come together to write this article. So without further ado we present to you: The Emmas’ top ten Emmas in popular culture (in no particular order)!

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Rainy sundays

In ms elaine e. ouse, pcp news on June 6, 2011 at 7:37 am

Hello dear PCP fans!

HAPPY SUNDAY! I am Ms Elaine E. Ouse- Miss Thropist’s little sister- and I am writing my very first Search Term Sunday in celebration of  Miss Thropist’s birthday!  As it’s her birthday I am giving her the day off. That’s just the kind of great little sister I am.

Oh, I can’t lie to you. It’s not really her birthday. The Queen gets two birthdays, right? Is that true? My sister would know. Anyhow, my my you search for shocking things. What is wrong with you people? I love you anyway, you awful humans (no judgement). Ok, let’s go…

homer eat

Also works for the person who searched for National Doughnut Week 2011, which the pop culture queens celebrated by writing really difficult quizzes.

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Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens

In miss day, miss penn, miss thropist, ms elaine e. ouse, screenshots, tv kicks on March 21, 2011 at 7:40 pm

I tend to view childhood through extremely rose-tinted spectacles. (Most likely because puberty was so horrific.) I forget the scabs and scuffles, and relish memories of sucking honey out of flowers, rolling down hills and seeing how long I could get away with not changing my knickers. It might not have been Enid Blyton, but it was bags of fun.

Despite the recent proliferation of rather adult celebrations,  spring – my first English one in years – has led to me feeling rather childlike. Or should that be childish?

I forgot how lovely and fresh days could be, how bouncy the grass, how blue the sky… oh I could go on forever, and it would sicken you more than a Guinness followed by a Baileys chaser. Or a lollipop milkshake.

Instead, I’ll get my kicks by having picnics and by taking a trip down memory lane. Over on our sister site Apocalypse Book, I’ll be posting about favourite books from childhood for the next week or so.

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Top 40

In bookmark, fasc-ion, good vibrations, ms elaine e. ouse, screenshots, tv kicks on March 8, 2011 at 4:04 pm

Happy Women’s Day!

It’s also the start of Lent, for which this year, having mostly quit smoking already, I am giving up misogyny.

If you would like to do this too, here are daily activities for the duration of Lent to keep us all focused.

Lent 2011 starts the day after Pancake Day, which is Wednesday 9th March. It continues for 46 days until Saturday 23rd April.

In Western Christianity Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Holy Saturday. The six Sundays in Lent are not counted among the forty days of Lent because each Sunday represents a “mini-Easter”, a celebration of Jesus.

If you feel that you do need activities for each Sunday during feminist Lent you may meditate and practice your mantra ‘I must not be a misogynist, I must not be a misogynist’.

And of course, make the pledge: swear off Disney porn for the duration of Lent.

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High Heels and Low Corsets

In fasc-ion, ms elaine e. ouse on February 22, 2011 at 1:58 pm

For the last week or so I have been staring at everybody’s shoes. I really like shoes.

It’s not a fetish thing, although please don’t think that I don’t like fetishism. Especially if shoes are involved.

I was asked last week why anyone would ever go out in high heels in London at all.

I do see that it is madness- there’s so much time spent on squishy tubes and lurching night buses, and sometimes you’re expected to face cobbles.

But then conversation turned to whether high heels are anti-feminist.

My grandma (Feminist icon #1) speaks about having to make meals and be treated like dirt, whilst also feeling that she was expected to be on stupid, painful stilts. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear Disney Wankers

In ms elaine e. ouse, screenshots on January 14, 2011 at 5:19 pm

The Search Term Sundays lead me to believe that an awful lot of people are googling Disney porn and ending up on Pop Culture Playpen. Now it’s not up to me to limit people’s sexual fantasies, and Disney porn doesn’t harm anyone directly (assuming that cartoons don’t feel pain anyway).

But…

Since this blog may be the window to communication with the Disney porn world I would like to use this opportunity to ask them to stop. Stop making Disney porn. Stop searching for Disney porn. And most of all, stop getting distracted by pop culture websites as you go.

There is, I think, probably nothing wrong with porn in itself, as long as it doesn’t encourage violence or display the subordination of any group. In my mind (or according to the harm principle, whatever), that divides porn into two categories; the first, porn that is personal and not harmful and the second, porn that is just, well, icky.

In fact, if the porn is in cartoon form, it takes out the possibility that real people have been coerced into the making of it. Attraction to cartoon characters is also par for the course. My girlfriend fancied Ginger from As Told by Ginger, when they were the same age. She also drunkenly confessed to a past crush on Eliza Thornberry from the Wild Thornberries, but now denies this. Perhaps you consumers of Disney porn are harbouring childhood crushes on Disney characters, and these crushes have never gone away. It’s possible, so you get back to us. (We love qualitative research like you love princess porn.) Let us know what you are feeling, Disney Wankers. My other thought is that you are testing the internet rule 34 that if you can think it; there’s porn of it. (Cornflake porn? We wonder, but we don’t look it up…although now I kind of want to.)

And why are there so many you people? As the post-Sex and the City generation we know that your masturbation is neither bad nor wrong. But Disney masturbation shows that you sexualise gender inequality, which is what Disney depicts and teaches with its stupid female leads waiting for princes. There are Disney women who don’t rely so much on the male heroes; there’s Mulan, for example, who doesn’t seem to  know her place as woman. Outrageous!  Disney is outdated, we can tell because the monarchy still seems to be important. And, more importantly, because it teaches that women should sing, cook, clean, hang about with small creatures, and wait. Men should be arrogant, wealthy and have bum chins. Disney, like Miss Thropist, will not meet my children.

And Disney has wronged me personally! I had to grow up knowing that I didn’t look like a Disney princess, get told that it was fine, because nobody does, and then get to secondary school and realise that some girls do. On the other hand, I grew up wanting the dresses that the lucky princesses got to wear (not like the chiffon ones, the heavy velvet stuff), had to deal with them not existing in the real world, and then found out that they did, in Camden!

Anyway, my research is limited. I haven’t seen it. I haven’t searched it, because I don’t want to encourage it with my Google-vote, and probably it would just end up bringing me back here. But you just know that this is going to involve nasty depictions of Disney princess; Snow White, Beauty, Jasmine, Belle, Cinderella and the rest. Obviously you know, Disney wankers, you love that shit. This is because it involves childhood imagery, twisted.

It’s also just plain misogynistic to sexualise what Disney stands for, which is old style bubble pink Barbie playhouse fun female subordination. Disney princesses are crap. The Disney stories are taken from traditional patriarchal stories which kept women sitting around trying to be more womanly, fearing that they were doing it wrong. They gave children sexist, racist messages from which nothing can redeem them. I am, however, told that these traditional stories aren’t as cut and dried.

The question I am ending this with may help to clear up whether the real problem with you, the Disney porn market, is actually the making-childhood-things-sexual ickiness factor or the making-male-domination-sexual-as-ever factor.

Perhaps it may be both.

The question: Would Through the Glass Ceiling porn be ok?

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