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Newest Feminist Rallying Cry: “Farting” is Part of the Patriarchy
Pundit Press ^ | 1/4/15 | Aurelius

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.”

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: feminism; gasbag; girlfarts; glosswitch; pootinginyrdirection; pullmyfinger; smashthepatriarchy; thatsnotmyfinger; whiteprivilege
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To: Jack Hydrazine

what? No caterwauling?


101 posted on 01/04/2015 3:55:05 PM PST by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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To: arthurus
They eat a lot of beans and cabbage before they march so as to make the proper impression.

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.

102 posted on 01/04/2015 3:55:18 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Fungi
There's farting, then there is farding.

But you're getting into dangerous territory if you shart.....(Hint: We've all gambled on a fart - and lost.)

103 posted on 01/04/2015 3:55:38 PM PST by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: nascarnation

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.


104 posted on 01/04/2015 3:55:42 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (1`)
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To: Roses0508

kick fart?


105 posted on 01/04/2015 3:56:40 PM PST by getitright (If you call this HOPE, can we give despair a shot?)
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To: Fungi

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.


106 posted on 01/04/2015 3:56:43 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
Lord Windemere versus Paul Boomer on YouTube.

My father-in-law owned a copy of that on a phonograph record. Might've been a 78 rpm platter.

107 posted on 01/04/2015 3:57:28 PM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: a fool in paradise
who knew that Rervrunt Al Was .....a Feminist..??




108 posted on 01/04/2015 3:59:08 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
Anyone remember those farting contests where Lord Windemere wins the tournament? lol

Crepetation contests?

Never heard of them. < /s >

109 posted on 01/04/2015 3:59:33 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I’m guessing you’re old enough to remember that era.
The safety vs speed trade-off was much different back then for sure.


110 posted on 01/04/2015 4:00:26 PM PST by nascarnation (....)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Big Al, doing his p(h)art for feminisisism.


111 posted on 01/04/2015 4:00:45 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: MeshugeMikey

“YES WE MUCH!”


112 posted on 01/04/2015 4:01:06 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: nascarnation

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 ;)


113 posted on 01/04/2015 4:04:55 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (1`)
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To: rightistight
Original article in New Statesman is even more amusing.

http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2014/12/why-bodily-functions-are-feminist-issue

114 posted on 01/04/2015 4:14:53 PM PST by Salman
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To: Popman

Men pissing against a wall is Biblical. See I Kings 14.10.


115 posted on 01/04/2015 4:19:11 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Yo-Yo
explained that men are allowed “piss against a wall” and “spit in the street,” while women are not even allowed to fart.

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.

116 posted on 01/04/2015 4:25:28 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: a fool in paradise

“I dont know nuthin bout no GALEO,,but I know how to fart....”


117 posted on 01/04/2015 4:40:15 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: rightistight
Ladies...be truthful...do gaseous emissions ever emanate from....well,you know?
118 posted on 01/04/2015 4:44:48 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: getitright

I knew I missed one!


119 posted on 01/04/2015 4:49:04 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Mr. K

Well spoken, Sir!


120 posted on 01/04/2015 4:59:57 PM PST by majormaturity
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