Farting is a powerful word. It immediately takes you back to childhood and silly bathroom jokes. Ask your typical 3 year old.
To be accused of letting it happen or worse doing so deliberately was a child’s greatest horror, an amusing sort of horror. It was a loss of honor!
It was almost on the level of saying somebody had the indefinable “cooties”,
another Capital Crime of schoolkids.
I dated a hot chick in the 80s. She said she didn’t know what that was....with a wink. I thought it was funny and turned me on about her. LOL!