Posted on 05/19/2015 7:40:54 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Top feminist academics that have respectable diverse doctorates from medieval art to 6th century English to Women’s Studies gathered at the University of Toronto meeting center to discuss if human flatulence could be sexist.
Ashleigh Ingle, a proud feminist and an anarchist, argued that because of patriarchal gender norms women were not allowed to release gas in public because of men’s unreal expectations of women to be clean and feminine. Furthermore she articulated that if a woman was to fart in the presence of a man and the man responded by farting louder than the woman, then that would be rape.
“By farting louder the man is using passive aggressive violence to position himself as dominant. This intimidates the woman to subconsciously not release as much flatulence and thus the woman fearing for her safety doesn't fart as loud as a sign of submissiveness. This in turn contributes to rape culture and women being oppressed.”
The discussion boiled down to women’s bodies once again being controlled by society and women being told what to do.
Local activist Steph Guthrie, a feminist advocate and community organizer who specialises in social media and interactive events, proposed an online campaign to tackle this misogyny that “keeps women down and trapped in their own bodies. I just find it horrific that the patriarchy has been controlling women’s flatulence this whole time and we have just realised this now. It is time for feminists worldwide to re-educate women on how they are being discriminated against."
Guthrie’s Twitter hashtag #FartRape has started to trend as women are taking control of their own bodies by naming and shaming men guilty of fart rape. Guthrie hopes the guilty men will be identified and then their workplace will be called up and their employer will be notified the type of person they are harboring in the workplace.
But Ingle argues that it simply isn't enough. “Don't tell women to fart louder. Tell men not to fart so loud. This is clear victim-blaming and government should pass laws to make male farts above a certain decibel illegal to make human flatulence equal and not discriminate against women."
Science advocates have argued that because of sexual dimorphism, men are larger, need a higher protein intake and thus can relieve more flatulence, but the speakers at the conference were adamant that it was a socially constructed gender norm that oppressed women to the point that they physically do not release equal amounts of gas as men.
It doesn’t take long for them to add their favorite R word to their lies.
> “I’ve never been killed by a fart.”
So you’ve obviously never hung around me after I’ve eaten a couple bowls of chili and drunk a six-pack of beer...
Well your wife is still alive right?...lol
Fixed it for you. :)
Disappointing, people, disappointing.
There is apparently a subspecies where one can catch it and save it for a friend.
Man turns fart recording into symphony, calls it his ‘rectum opus’ (VIDEO)
Back in the day, he'd be the butt the joke.
But air farts only smell because they’re from a smelly place.
Truer words have never been spoken.
Ah,the old Dutch Oven trick.
Obviously this needs to be posted to “Breaking” News.
You can no longer read something like this and have any confidence that it’s satire.
“It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good...”
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