# Can a Woman Belch as Loud as a Man? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 10, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-belch-as-loud-as-a-man/387448 "2007-01-10T20:17:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-belch-as-loud-as-a-man/387448/1 "2007-01-10T20:17:16Z")
I’ve been drinking beer all afternoon and just expaitrated a belch a good 3 seconds that sent the cat under the couch. Question: Does a burp resound from vocal chords or something else down there? Would a female burp (higher voice and all) sound as loud? Higher pitch? Yes, I’m a bachelor. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-belch-as-loud-as-a-man/387448/2 "2007-01-10T20:51:09Z")
I’m female. Gimme a couple of cans of Diet Cokes, and I’ll take you on! Long, deep, and loud – you betcha. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-belch-as-loud-as-a-man/387448/3 "2007-01-10T22:00:16Z")
Mine can be as low and long as a man’s. It’s “vocal cords” BTW. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-belch-as-loud-as-a-man/387448/4 "2007-01-10T22:01:19Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Mine can be as low and long as a man’s. [/QUOTE] That sounded…not quite right. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Skrull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@Red\_Skrull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skrull)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-belch-as-loud-as-a-man/387448/5 "2007-01-10T22:48:25Z")
I’d take Rosie O’Donell over Vernon Troyer (Mini Me) any day in that bet. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-belch-as-loud-as-a-man/387448/6 "2007-01-10T22:57:46Z")
[QUOTE=Henry Higgins] Why can’t a woman belch more like a man? [/QUOTE] … ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-belch-as-loud-as-a-man/387448/7 "2007-01-10T23:21:17Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] That sounded…not quite right. :eek: [/QUOTE] Au contraire! I am intrigued. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-woman-belch-as-loud-as-a-man/387448/8 "2007-01-10T23:33:18Z")
To add yet another off-topic post… My sister has a newborn baby girl. She’s about three weeks old now. I saw her at five days and again at two weeks. This girl is a farter. I mean, she’s a farting machine. But not only that, the farts are amazing. As a newborn, her brother would let out a little “peep peep” from his nether regions, but this girl lets loose the most incredible, resonant, male-sounding farts. A forty year-old ex-footballer would be proud of them. Great big, booming, low frequency rumbles that could potentially result in law suits from neighbours for structural damage to their homes. Passers-by look skywards trying to spot the fighter plane. Truly amazing. And she’s so _tiny_.