Why do men take such pride in passing gas?

Answer 1

Actually, that modicum of sarcastic pride seemingly taken in lower forms of entertainment (potty humor), is not a pride specifically in the gas at all. Psychologically, it is a pride in what makes men a collective gender. It is an acknowledgement, uneducated or otherwise, that men collectively are able to handle certain things women once were not.

Remember when women would faint at the sight of blood? How about when little girls would get disgusted by being made to touch a toad? Ever heard of a woman getting the vapors? How about the uncontrollable screaming we see in old black & white tapes of The Beatles on the part of girls in the audience? Nobody acts like that now.

Women's function as part of the human race, mental, physical, and emotional parts, has been subjugated for centuries. Even in certain tribal beginnings, a balance was struck between the food providers and the food preparers. While altogether unaware of the gender forces that allowed these balances to be struck, the effect was that women far less frequently WENT OUT from the village. In turn, they saw or experienced far less of the world, instead, only the parts of it that were brought to them. While one has to make exceptions for the nomadic type tribes and female warriors, overwhelmingly this supposed tribal balance created two different effects on two different genders.

Add to these beginnings centuries of uptight religious practice and societal boundaries, and you eventually get to a new world America wherein women weren't supposed to have jobs, leave the house, enjoy sex, talk back, share ideas, show ankles, or do anything men had forbidden. It's no wonder that in the last few decades of eyes opening that the throng of experiences available in the world lead to a woman or two for whom the shock was just too much. Hence fainting, illness, vapors, screaming, nausea, outward expressions of stress, anger, jealousy, disdain and so on. We are only a few generations removed, if at all, from this natural process of women becoming the self-sufficient, independent contributors to society they were always meant to be. Women had to do this quickly, within just a generation or two, within even a single lifetime. There should be so surprise that they were sometimes shocked by parts of the progress as big as glass ceilings and as small as men commiserating over toilet humor.

As the playing field hopefully grows ever equal, sometimes all that older-school men had left was humor related to the dirtier things in life, the grit, the nastiness. They collectively and unconsciously associated their centuries-honed ability to HANDLE ugliness and anythingness with maleness. It's an identifier, a commonality, a visible difference between a guy making fun of a dead body and a woman fainting on the Ed Sullivan Show.

While many relate the male propensity for potty humor with a level of immaturity, most men actually sooner connect the use to adulthood, a practice of freedom that will not be curtailed by Emily Post and an identifier that self-shows them to be an upstanding person that can handle anything that comes along. Pride in "farts," for lack of a better description, is only a miniscule shade of this larger pride, a pride that is certain we can get our dying wives to the hospital before we emotionally break-down and a pride that is certain that even in war we will prevail.

If you know any one modern woman, I'm certain you can find in her these same measures of pride. Your question today becomes one about why such pride is voiced by one gender and rarely voiced by another. I believe men voice it to self-acknowledge. I believe women voice it, still, in the process of “newly” fitting in with men.

Answer 2

It's just one of those things.

Something about the way bodily gas smells, and sounds when it leaves the body is just hilarious to a lot of guys, and even a lot of women. Sure, it doesn't sound pretty and it doesn't smell nice, but I think men in general enjoy seeing the reaction they get out of other people when they do it. Plus, over the years, passing gas has slowly become equated with manliness (for whatever reason). Especially around their friends, guys like to pass gas as loud or as awful smelling as possible, in the hopes that one day one of their friends will talk to them and say..
"Dude, remember that fart you had?"

It's just a guy thing, but if it really bothers you, just politely tell whoever's doing it that you don't appreciate it and that you don't like it. They should back down.

Answer 3

Pride from passing gas? Perhaps they have low self-esteem and have done nothing more prominent with their miserable lives so they feel they need to take a sense of pride in something they can actually acheive. These men are probably womanizers and cheaters as well. (Such a broad generalization, I couldn't help it people lol).

Answer 4

Simply cause it is fun and feels oh so good. The bigger, the louder and the stinkier the better. Because we have a system to compare our farts there is pride associated with having a fart at the top rung of the rating system. Really makes one feel they've accomplished something in life you know?

Answer 5

I think they do it so show off. SOme men do take pride in doing it and some don't. TO me it is rude and disgusting. One time at work (I am a cab driver) I has these 2 teenage boys farting very loud in the cab, and they just laughed their heads off, and thought it was cute. I even said something to them and told them to act their age. IT smelled so bad I almost got sick. They also do it to draw attention. I had a few kids in my class, who would do it, and it was absolutely disgusting, they would let out the loud ones, and I MEAN LOUD ONES!. One time a kid sitting across from me in class let this loud one go, and he giggled about it, and I said. "Ohhhh!" Then he said don't make a big deal of it. Then I cut in "You need to say something!" then he said "EXCUSE ME! DON'T MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT IT!" then the teacher cut in. "You need to control it! I am getting tired of you doing that all the time. Next time you so that you are going to the bathroom!" He had a great thrill in doing it, and I did not like it at all.

Answer 6

not all men do... some men take pride in their burps ... I take pride in both as i can make them as loud as i want :P But that doesn't mean it should be done in public (that's just rude). I do it in the comfort of my own home with people around me who know it's a joke.

Answer 7

Men in general or you're guy? I am a guy and I have never taken pride in passing gas, especially around women!!!! Sounds like your "man" may be more of a child.

Answer 8

You must know the wrong men because none of the men I know take pride in it.

Answer 9

It's natural and I say better out than in. I also wouldn't say they take pride in but simply aren't embarrassed about it.

Answer 10

Let's face the fact's men are easily entertained.