Women do NOT poop.

Brakhtin suggests that the reason we laugh at ‘billingsgate’ is because the organs that we defecate with are in the same vicinity as the ones that we create life, therefore, saying that these things are tied together as are life and death, sin and purity, and repulsion and humor. I think that it is nature to laugh at billingsgate but we are nurtured out of it. In western culture it is bad taste to let the neighbors see your dirty laundry. Laughing at a filthy joke is almost the same thing. You do not want people to know that you think these things are funny. When I was younger, I was stuck in beauty pageants, and cotillion lessons with the thought that I would one day be a debutante like all the other women in my family. They are all southern belles but all I wanted to do was be a cow girl. They reprimanded me up and down to do things that were deemed lady like. I would say, “I need to go pee.” They would say, “No, you need to powder your nose!” The moral of this story is that I was nurtured into being a lady, it was not my nature. It is nature to think a fart is funny. It is nature to laugh at someone taking a shit so much that he has to climb up into a tree to make room for it. It is something, however, that is nurtured out of us. Most of our parents want us to grow up to be doctors, lawyers, or politicians so we are supposed to have a since of humor that is more sophisticated. Going even farther than that, as Americans we consider ourselves to be privileged among the other nations. Why would we laugh at something as low and vulgar as poop? We are clearly much better than that. All this goes back to the age old notion that women do not poop, and as our cultural sense of humor would have us believe, neither does any other American.