Why is it that so many people think women don't fart?

I admit, I am a gaseous woman. I like my fruit and veggies, and the tendency towards gas seems to run in my family. I'm discreet and hold it in when I'm in public, but at home? Well, my dear husband told me once, when we were dating, that he was glad I felt comfortable enough around him to fart. Of course, that was before I scared him out of bed one morning . . . (poor guy thought someone fired a gun.)

The LW is going to have to either reassess his ideas about women and bodily functions or get to the root of the deeper issues at hand. His wife seems passive agressive from his letter- using her farts as punishment. But maybe that's just his skewed view. Emotional turmoil certainly makes me more gassy, and something as stressful as a fight with her spouse may do the same to the wife.

Either way, he better get a hold of this and resolve and learn to live with it before they start a family. Nothing makes a woman fartier than pregnancy!

Women are no different than men when it comes to having gass and the need to release this gass.

A good spouse tries their best to reduce the 'pain' their gass can cause their fellow loved ones! Using farts as punishment isn't a good idea since it can backfire!

...the social graces down pat. men do too, but a pick up trucker is forgiven some things.

look, it;s not a question of gender, it's a question of social tact. i would no more fart at the dinner table, then at an office meeting, then in front of my kids, my wife, mother, even best buddy. neither would i take a crap in front of them. sure, in the military there are no doors in front of the potty, it's an assaultive environment anyway and there it's a competition who can lay the loudest longest fart as well as who can piss the longest. if the DI gets a hold of your ass though you may spend the day on hand and knees scrubbing the latrine floor with your toothbrush. outside the military, farting in company is gross, low class. accidents happen only rarely. if my wife didn't have the same sense of decorum i'd fire her, and wouldn't have married her because any person that routinely farts in company is a PIG.

My farts smell like roses!

I did fart like crazy with my first pregnancy, those pre-natal pills really did a number.

db ( I don't want to call you dumb blonde, BTW),

pregnancy gives women a pass on everything.

But like intersurfa said, when you use the toilet, close the door.

I'd add: when you feel gas coming on, go to another room. If you can't move (like in bed), say excuse me (ecspecially) if your spouse is conscious.

Usama2:

db ( I don't want to call you dumb blonde, BTW),

pregnancy gives women a pass on everything.

But like intersurfa said, when you use the toilet, close the door.

I'd add: when you feel gas coming on, go to another room. If you can't move (like in bed), say excuse me (ecspecially) if your spouse is conscious.

Only rarely are my farts so strong as to render my wife unconscious!

And, by the way, I think that is silly. Unless one has especially foul-smelling farts, or are in a poorly vented space, the idea that one cannot fart around ones family and friends is just being stuffy, IMHO

It depends on your company, and each situation is different. Suppose your spouse does not have a problem with farting and feels it is a natural bodily function that there is nothing to ashamed of (maybe they even think it's funny!), by all means, let loose. If you are in public, with people you do not know well, or with people whom you KNOW do not want to hear/smell your farts (with your parents who brought you up to believe it was rude), do your best to respect them and hold it in. I agree that it is natural and everybody does it, and I wish society in general did not feel like this was so taboo, but I also think that the smell and sound can be offensive in polite company and therefore you should take care to respect those around you.

pffft! Music to my ears! In any language! Farting is universal!

I like my fruit, veggies and cheese! I figure if I turn vegan, the lack of dairy will save me!

Gas is universal, but so is defecation. I suspect a few folks here leave the door open when they're riding the porcelain bus.

BTW, do you leave the restroom stinking and encourage your spouse to enjoy the human aroma?

This is certainly an individual's personal preference.

The gasbag's victimized husband needs to light one of his own farts as a demonstration and keep matches or a flick of a bic handy to hold near the gasbag's ass when she rips one.

I always figured that was the main reason to keep candles burning in those romantic situations -- so the mood isn't ruined by a particularly aromatic fart.

Th Paine:

the idea that one cannot fart around ones family and friends is just being stuffy, IMHO

Not necessarily. Just like one person might love to go camping every weekend and another hate the ooutdoors, sensibiliities regarding farting, etc. around family varies. Just as I wouldn't expect a couple where one camps regularly and the other can't bear to to co-exist peacefully without some major compromises, so would I expect this couple to compromise. Asking her to excuse herself when one slips is reasonable. Asking someone to step away from where food is being served is reasonable. Getting angry if one does slip and he says "excuse me" is not.

Th Paine:

the idea that one cannot fart around ones family and friends is just being stuffy, IMHO

well, in hubby's family it gets to be a contest on who can fart & burp the loudest.

his family---burps & farts--extremely funny

My family, you must excuse yourself & fart & burp in private. (to this day, i say excuse me when i burp or fart, even when there isn't anyone else around)

my family--burps & farts--extremely rude.

IncogNeato:

...Not necessarily. Just like one person might love to go camping every weekend and another hate the ooutdoors, sensibiliities regarding farting, etc. around family varies.....

True, and I would strongly recommend that those two people not marry each other!

In my own experience, those who are overly squeamish with bodily functions (farts, sweat, menstruation, etc) are almost always too inhibited to be very sexual as well -- so I tend to screen them out early.

It seems to be the general assumption that one is always aware of an impending passage of wind and can control such. Certainly, if I have that suspicious feeling of pressure, and am about to approach and speak to someone, I'll tighten the muscles to prevent escaping air. But so often there is no warning! (insert horrified and sorrowful emoticons here) There are also the silent but stinky ones.... a reason why everyone should be accompanied at all times by a dog (on whom to blame sounds and smells).