Glastonbury: Did you find the Peequal female urinals?

[Daisydoesnt]

If you went to Glastonbury this year, did you find the Peequal female urinals? There were some near the Pyramid stage although there might have been others. Not smelly, hardly ever a queue, quick to use, oh and did I mention not smelly? They are nothing to do with me (this is not an ad) but having been dreading the thought of the disgusting Glasto loos they were a complete and utter game changer. They will be at other festivals this summer so look out for them!!

Women's urinal inventors

I’d definitely give them a go. Anyone going to a festival isn’t going to be too precious about using them.

I think they’re a great idea. I wish they’d had more of them, as the queues for the composting loos and long drops were a pain if you just needed a quick wee.

To all the posters wanging on about privacy or someone being able to take a photo, really not going to be an issue at Glastonbury, the smell of the long drops would not encourage perverts to hang around, it’s unholy. Plus there are so many people around all the time, privacy is not really a concept anyway.

Having said that, an empty Lenor bottle and a shewee in the tent were good for nighttime wees. 😂

The “touch point” thing is slightly odd to my mind because everyone washes their hands after using a toilet so how dangerous is it to touch the door if you’ll be washing your hands a few moments later

i believe the touch point isn’t about hygiene: it’s more of a mechanics and psychological thing to get you in, peed and out quicker (up thread a pp said that was on the woman’s hour interview). And no there’s no flushing anywhere at Glastonbury, although I’m sure I saw an attendant with a bottle of antibacterial spray but I might be wrong.

I've only read half the posts but most of the negatives come from people who haven't been to Glasto and experienced the horrific toilets! Many /all of the negative comments I've seen are about things which the current toilets have so these are an improvement for women, even if not perfect.
I wish I'd seen these! I'd have loved to have used them.

@roastednut yes I was thinking exactly that. When I posted I thought I’d maybe get half a dozen women say, ‘oh no I missed them but thanks for the tip’.

Anyone that’s been to Glastonbury or other festivals has either said I used them and thought they were great, I didn’t use them but thanks I’ll give them a try next time, or no they wouldn’t be for me but at least they make the queues shorter for the long drops/compostable. All the - frankly - sanctimonious tosh has come from people that don’t go to festivals and have no idea of the challenges of putting on
loos for 250,000 people for a week in the middle of a field with no sewerage facilities.

The safety and privacy issues that have been raised never occurred to me or my friends when we used them. It felt perfectly safe.

there are what 100,000 women camping at Glasto over however many hundreds of acres. So that’s sleeping in tents with nothing more than a zip and bit of canvas to the tent which is literally inches away. But no one throws their hands up in horror about that?

I was very glad to use the female urinals last weekend. I hope they are there next year. I wish the young female founders the best of luck with their venture.

Op, why are you calling them female urinais when the signs on them say that both sexes can use them?

When I went to Glastonbury in 2019 they had female urinals but forward facing, more like a men's urinal into a trough, and you were given a disposable she-wee to use if you didn't have your own. I found them quicker and better to use than the other toilets, but they were much less private than what you have described OP. Lots of bare bums on show as each section just had a small divider between, but everyone was quite amused at trying to work out what to do.
I hope they have these at the festival I'm going to. I'd definitely use them.

Op, why are you calling them female urinais when the signs on them say that both sexes can use them?

Because that’s how they were referred to?

It's irrelevant how others have referred to them. These urinals are clearly unisex and should be advertised as such. I wouldn't be happy if something was sold to me as "female only" and I then turned up and there were males there. As this is a female dominated website, we need to be calling rubbish like this out.

Is it really necessary to try to make a political point when this service is actually something that improves equality for women (there are loads of male urinals, but none for women) and gives us a better choice?

😊 Thanks
I think they're a great idea.
Hate queuing for loos!

So men can use these as well? So they’d be standing up and you’d be squatting down and the partition isn’t full length? I assume (hope) I am misunderstanding.

Not at the one I went too @iBrows there was the female urinals, female blocks of portaloos and the male portaloos and then male urinals. Sort of like a M shape.

Why would you be squatting down at a urinal?

the ones at Glastonbury are specifically for women and they have female staff there ensuring no blokes go in.

then again these days they’ll probably be accused of being transphobic if they refused to let “penis havers” in 🙄

You squat because that is how you use these urinals…

Are we not talking about SheeWee ones?

Nope

I believe a pp is referring to peequal as being unisex because of this photo which another pp posted.

It says female urinal at the top of the sign. As many others have said there were female attendants and only females using the urinals. No men. There were also the usual male urinals elsewhere.

@AllHailKingLouis i know in previous years there were shewees but no these were completely different. It was basically a potty-like drain in the floor which you did a low squat over. No funnel involved.

How is it improving female equality when it's mixed sex?

Give over. Would you rather there was nothing? Would that be better?

Does it really hurt to celebrate a start up business founded by two young women? That’s incredibly rare in itself. And there are male urinals and now there are female urinals. That’s how it’s improving equality. Call them unisex if makes you happy. But keep carping about a real positive achievement is I think pretty poor.

Surely instead of being pathetically grateful for something that sounds like it belongs in a 3rd world shanty town, Women should be asking for proper facilities?

Why aren’t there properly furnished portoloos there? If you can pay a ridiculous price for food and drink you could pay £1 to use a proper toilet so the people running them would make good money.
I bet the people doing luxury glamping there don’t have to endure such indignity.
I’ve never been to a festival but I’ve been to other large outdoor events that manage to have decent toilet facilities.

Oh and ‘trans inclusive’ means that there will definitely be Men in the Female urinals 🙄

@BorgQueen
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Glastonbury is the largest arts festival in the world, and it’s held in the middle of rural Somerset. So I doubt you have ever been anywhere that has to provide facilities on such a large scale with no underlying infrastructure for a whole week. There aren’t even large trunk roads to the venue (the road approaching the festival goes through Glastonbury town from the west, and the small village of Pilton to the east).

Do you know what, I WAS grateful for such an improvement in facilities. When you’ve come up with something even better why don’t you let us all know?

Do you realise how many portaloos you’d need to cater for all the women at Glastonbury?! Plus they’d be used by men also and would be covered in piss, shit and vomit in no time.

and if by “glampers” you mean the people who pay for a tipi tent then yes, they use the same bogs as everyone else. You clearly have no idea how big Glastonbury is if you imagine people can just pop back to their tents for a piss inbetween bands.

Sounds like hell on earth so I’m very glad I’ve never been.

If they can get Artics full of stage equipment and luxury motorhomes for the Singers to the site then I’m sure they could get a few hundred portaloos.

Badminton horse trials has similar numbers of vistors, they manage.