HAPPY SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY! Here at the VM, we love a good pun, but Will was the master of pussy puns. Today, we'd like to be the cool English teacher sitting backwards on the chair, and present to you an annotated guide to some of the Bard's best sneaked-in vagina jokes...
every actor lives for the day where they can play the Dane and flat-out scream the word CUNT on stage
the original "see you next tuesday" pun
if Much Ado was made today, there's a strong case to be made for calling it A Great Big Hoo-ha About Hoo-Ha
we're not sure if there's a world record for how many rude jokes you can get into one paragraph, but this is a contender, and we pity poor Mistress Quickly's vag.
Hamlet again, because you have to remember Hamlet was a young guy, and therefore somewhat preoccupied, and also the play is pretty long and depressing so you need to cheer it up in places
and finally, a sad one. even in one of the most tragic dramatic climaxes in the history of theatre, Will manages to get a vagina pun in there
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The word of the day is "mittelschmerz". Literally "middle pain", it's a feeling of pain when you ovulate. It happens about 14 days before your period, and about 20% of people report it happening occasionally or usually.
Mittelschmerz is felt in your lower abdomen as a sharp twinge or dull cramp. In some people it only lasts a minute, while others might feel it for a day or two. Sometimes you'll be able to notice which ovary it's coming from, as the pain will be towards one side.
It's usually not severely painful - if ovulation is very painful for you, see a doctor as it might be a symptom of endometriosis, or scarring from surgery or an STI.
Meet Realdo Colombo. In 1559, this Italian anatomist claimed to have discovered the clitoris, then promptly died (for unrelated reasons)
We'll start by saying that obviously, Colombo didn't discover the clitoris. Anyone with one probably noticed it was there, since it's RIGHT THERE.
It also wasn't like Colombo was the first anatomist to point out the clitoris - it was known since antiquity among Greek, Persian and Arabic anatomists, on account of it being RIGHT THERE.
On this day in 2015, the obscenity trial of artist Megumi Igarashi, known as Rokudenashiko ("good-for-nothing girl") began in Japan.
Rokudenashiko's trial surrounded a controversial work of hers: a kayak based on her own vulva.
Rokudenashiko's work aims to destigmatise the manko - a Japanese term for vagina and vulva - by showing the anatomy in a light-hearted and playful way. She wanted to make the manko "casual and pop".
As Ramadan begins, let's celebrate a remarkable Muslim woman from history: Fatima al-Fihri, founder of the world's oldest university, al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco.
Fatima was born to a wealthy merchant family, who emigrated to Fez from modern-day Tunisia in the ninth century. Due to the untimely death of her father, Fatima inherited a vast amount of wealth. She vowed to use her fortune to build a mosque and learning centre for her community
Al-Qarawiyyin mosque and university were founded in 859. The university is the longest-running degree-awarding higher education institution in the world.
Good morning, We have another horrible egg fact for you today, and since it's Easter, it also includes baby bunnies. Awww, bless.
Anyway, sorry, this is a horrible fact, and content warning for animal death.
Since at least ancient Egypt, people have wanted to know if they were pregnant or not. The Egyptians did it by peeing on barley seeds and looking at how quickly it sprouted. Then, throughout time, there were more tests, generally involving inspecting urine in some way or other.
The first accurate pregnancy test with solid scientific backing was developed in 1927. It still involved pee - specifically injecting pee into immature mice and then inspecting their ovaries a few days later.