this looks a lot like a case of Clarke’s Law of Girl-Toys to me, or perhaps an outbreak of the Pink Toolkit strain of liberation marketing bullshit, combined with ‘if it’s for women, wrap it in excess packaging’ syndrome.

there are other choices for pissing devices out there – why reward (or publicize on a feminist blog) a company that buys into the condescending overpackaged, pink-only sexist model of retailing to women?

As you’ve said, these devices have been around for a long timeand transmen obviously aren’t the only people to use them.

I on’t see how something on your genitals that says in HUGE letters “GO GIRL” would do anything other than totally out you in a public restroom. Even ciswomen who use it, as the author has atested to, risk a run-in with self righteous prejudice and perversion of other people’s invading their privacy.

As for the old woman I woud have called her a pervert for asking me about my genitals.

Oh and BTW, I sometimes pee sitting down on the toilet.

i make my own pee-funnels out of washed out pop/water bottles. once you get the hang of them, they work great – even drunk – and make peeing in bushes or wherever else, a helluva lot more discreet.