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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

What’s This? A Movie About the Historical Origin of the Vibrator?

by Susana Polo | 9:35 am, August 17th, 2011


With Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, and Jonathan Pryce? Addressing the severe mental strain placed on women in a culture that corralled their ambitions; the willful blindness of Victorian doctors to the existence of women’s sexual pleasure; and hand cramps?

Tickets, please.

(Thanks, Justin!)

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  • http://twitter.com/BettyNerds Krystal

    It’s like someone made a movie just for me.

  • http://www.extremelydissatisfied.wordpress.com Adam R. Charpentier

    So, every time I’ve heard the phrase, “She’s hysterical!” or in the case of comedies, “That was hysterical…”

    Sometimes the world is a wonderful and amusing place to live.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7G4SWUX2MCWWXLMYNN347JMIZY Frodo Baggins

    Sadly, neither of those statements apply to the vibrator scene in The Ugly Truth.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002188005079 Feklar Fourtytwo

    Is it an adaptation of “In the next room, or the vibrator play”?  I have to admit, I had mixed feelings about it which I won’t repeat since they are here: http://feklar.livejournal.com/69900.html.

  • Anonymous

    Yup, the root of “hysterical” is the greek(?) word for female genetalia (hence, hysterectomy), from back in the day when we thought that madness and irrationality was an inherently feminine affliction. Only women went crazy, and any man who went mad clearly just didn’t have the balls to stay sane. 

  • http://www.extremelydissatisfied.wordpress.com Adam R. Charpentier

    That is…hah. I cannot think of a downside to this treatment.

  • http://twitter.com/g33k_gal Natalie Ferguson

    Hah! This looks like it’s going to be amazingly funny. I’ll definitely be taking my BFF to see it.

  • http://twitter.com/perizade Perizade

    Vibrators are great now, but a lot of sexism went on behind their creation.

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