Posted on 01/04/2015 12:07:30 PM PST by rightistight
In an article published in the New Statesman, the self-described feminist writer who only goes by the name “Glosswitch,” explained that passing gas is now a feminist issue.
The piece, called “Why farting is a feminist issue,” explained that men are allowed “piss against a wall” and “spit in the street,” while women are not even allowed to fart.
Glosswitch explains that women aren’t allowed to exhibit behaviors that come naturally to their bodies, while men can. “It’s understood that male bodies are a part of what men are,” she explains. “Female bodies don’t have the same status.”
Women are pushed through a patriarchal society that demands they act a certain way, according to Glosswitch: “These days the phrase “real woman” is associated with Dove adverts, not with women who fart and burp and might occasionally want to cough up some phlegm while out on a jog.”
She wonders aloud if the perception that women cannot fart is harmful to women: “I’m not saying these are pleasant things to do – nor am I proposing we organize a feminist fart-in (unless it’s held at Claridge’s) – but I do think we need to ask ourselves whether the perceived “maleness” of bodily functions is harmful to women.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
what? No caterwauling?
Normally when it comes to protesting, it's difficult to find someone so bold as to lead the brigade down the streets.
With this movement, no one wants to bring up the rear of the march.
But you're getting into dangerous territory if you shart.....(Hint: We've all gambled on a fart - and lost.)
That is easily the most awesome thing I have ever seen car related. And I used to hang with the SCORE Trophy Truck crowd.
They bolted it to a Volkswagen...Dear God... Now we KNOW men involved in the Space program are aliens with hoevos like Buffalo.
kick fart?
Rush Limbaugh has taken women to task for farding while driving around town.
Media Matters will be sure to misquote him as they usually do.
My father-in-law owned a copy of that on a phonograph record. Might've been a 78 rpm platter.
Crepetation contests?
Never heard of them. < /s >
I’m guessing you’re old enough to remember that era.
The safety vs speed trade-off was much different back then for sure.
Big Al, doing his p(h)art for feminisisism.
“YES WE MUCH!”
49 but I have read a lot about the early drag era. I was a big fan of the gassers.
Different for sure. It was IIRC anything you can dream, you do. And many did. I remember the Pomona museum having one of the first ‘drag cars’ on display. Frame. Motor, Wood box seat. Rope seatbelt, tires ;)
http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2014/12/why-bodily-functions-are-feminist-issue
Men pissing against a wall is Biblical. See I Kings 14.10.
Whaaaa?! This is just silliness!!! Women can spit in the street and women can piss against a wall and fart like a motorboat if they like. Something is wrong with these people.
“I dont know nuthin bout no GALEO,,but I know how to fart....”
I knew I missed one!
Well spoken, Sir!
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