Britain Unzipped. As women are we suppossed to hold it in?!!!

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Has anyone seen the ad for this "programme" on bbc 3 or rather the trailer.
As part of the trailer Russell Kane and chum mentioned that (i think it was 53%) of women are happy to let rip (fart) in front of their boyfriends. WTF.
Do we have different digestive systems fron men or something? Or are we supposed to hold it in and get stomachache just cos we have breasts instead of a penis? Because BBC3 i would love to know.

at fart is not a feminist issue!

Its not tiny pooh specks that makes farts smell, its gas produced by bacteria. sulpher dioxide. that the really bad smell...

It is so a feminist issue. Like so much else women are expected to have more control over their bodies than men.

'It is so a feminist issue. Like so much else women are expected to have more control over their bodies than men.'

Marjery - what do you base this statement on?

I do actually know females who won't fart in front of anyone, and some who more or less pretend that they don't poo

I remember a woman at school, when I said I felt hot and sweaty on a bus, turned around and said "horses sweat, men perspire, ladies glow".

One of the reasons that many teenaged girls avoid exercise is because they will go red and sweaty and it will mess their hair up

In environments where I have worked, in the summer, men having sweat marks on armpits was fine for a man and a definite no-no for a woman

All that sort of thing. I think is what marjery is talking about.

I won't fart in front of anyone, nor will I discuss my poo unless I have some medical need to discuss it with HCP. I have been with DH for 15 years and we have never used that bathroom in front of one another. I don't think it's to do with being female - I wouldn't expect a man to fart in front of me or discuss poo either

I have IDB. Doubt I'd last long with a partner who couldn't handle farting & poo conversations

Not only that but during flare I'm sure my colleagues know exactly why I belt out of meetings with great speed. I would rather hope that they don't think about it though, but you learn to 'deal'.

DP also has IBD. This can at times be a very poo-obsessed house

It's less to do with anything that women are MEANT to do rather than what men SHOULD be doing....it's just disgusting to do it in front of anyone. Leave the room...go to the toilet...do it there.

And before anyone says "What?? EVERY TIME??"....yes EVERY TIME. If you're doing it so many times that this is awkward...then eat more slowly and sensibly or go to the GP.

I was farting at a rate of knots when I was pg.

No way am I getting up out of a warm bed and waddling to a cold bathroom every 5 mins when I am heavily upduffed.

Or under any other circumstances, quite frankly

I think DH would be really upset if I stopped cuddling him and left the room simply to fart

house Nice idea - not quite sure how we implement it in a house where there are times when making it to the loo on time for a crap is an achievement..

There really are much worse things than breaking wind and tbh unless someone is proud of it (I've never met anyone who was who wan't also a teenage boy) or excessively causing noise and a stink, I'd leave it.

Let's hope that House never has to have an op for piles (as I did after a particularly traumatic first labour left my nether regions severely damaged).

Believe me, once you've had that op many people find an escapee fart can occasionally happen with no warning whatsoever. It has nothing to do with diet and it was the attention of doctors that caused it in the first place......

Sorry TMI.

MizK did youu really mean to say 'there are more important things'? Because someone always says that about anything to do with women. It's on all the Bingo cards