Farting, also known as flatulence, passing gas, and cutting cheese, is a natural bodily function that among humans contributes relatively little to global warming. Both ordinary discussion and scholarly study of farting has tended to be silenced. One common, deviously oppressive saying is “he who smelt it, dealt it.” That saying should be replaced with the more enlightened and awareness-promoting expression, “If you smell something, say something!”
John Heywood’s Play of the Weather follows Boccaccio’s Corbaccio in using mundane figures for women’s corporeality to undermine gyno-idolatry … Read the post natural and mechanical figures against gyno-idolatry
The gift of farting promotes health and well-being. Gynocentric society shames men’s natural bodily functioning to the detriment of women and men. … Read the post the gift of farting: affirming natural bodily functioning
The troubadour Arnaut Daniel courageously stood against Truc Malec & Raimon de Durfort in refusing to kiss a woman’s ass. Fart to save lives, but no worse. … Read the post men must do anything for women: Arnaut Daniel’s medieval protest
The medieval French farce known as La farce du pet presents a family court ruling, less sexist than normal, that a husband partially owns his wife’s fart. … Read the post rule of marital common property: husband partly owns wife’s fart
Farting, a matter of human equality, has been used both to express wind against hierarchy and to assert hierarchical relations in “a fart to your beard.” … Read the post farting, equality, and hierarchy: analysis of “fart to your beard”