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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Great point!
Call it Mariah.
highborn ladies in hats and white gloves!....It’s them damn hats, I keep tellin’ em.
HAHA! My Dad always blamed the dog...as if we kids couldn’t determine the direction from which the sound was coming.
Men are allowed to piss against a wall?
Really ?
Urinating in public areas is a minor crime almost every where.
If men do urinate in public they can be discrete where women need to swat...
very unlady like....
O wait’ I must be a msygoious..
So the "Dutch Oven" is love, eh?
Always wondered what "the sign" was. d;^)
Yep. Pretty much sums it up for me. And it better look good too.
Angry B**ch Studies. LOL! I’ll have to remember that.
“Where’s my Laudanum?”
OK. I took beano. Where did all that gaseous noxicity go? I did’nt fart, I can’t shiite for a week, the Paramedics threw me in the ambulance and I shit like a buffalo on the plains. They threw me out and I found out later I’d had a heart attack. WHO do I sue? Gibs me dat, dammit!
Lighten farts is the next frontier.
What did you guys think was going on when the left started instructing men to position the toilet seat for women to use, and creating the image of male activities as so childish, that they needed to be conducted in an adolescent “man-cave”, away from the adult woman’s portion of the family home?
Now, it is sitting with knees apart in public, asserting male space domination, and passing gas.
Women fart plenty. Just not so much in public. It has to do with having a sense of class or not. Actually that applies to males just the same. BTW - why would a feminis worry what men thought them anyway?
I must be a msygoious.....Jeeeezus, I hope not. That can be fatal, I heard.
I volunteer to lock the doors - from the outside.
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