I just can't honestly imagine (wanting to) carry around a plastic urine funnel wherever I go. It just seems unsanitary and unnecessary. Although I'd rather pee like a guy out of convenience it was not natures intention for me to do so.

I've seen ads for something similar in Bitch magazine, and I think the catch-phrase is, "REAL women pee standing up!" That's so offensive and stupid and I always got frustrated that they placed ads in a feminist magazine.

Although it IS sort of convenient to just un-zip and relieve yourself, there's nothing wrong with your or my biology and I hate the attitude of these products!

From the Shewee website: Men could just stroll up and be on their way in a few seconds, while women were having to take off backpacks and clothing and then attempting to find somewhere to squat, all the time worrying about touching things for fear of germs, keeping their dignity and keeping warm.

cause vaginas are undignified?

I always have to laugh a little bit when I see ads for stuff like SheWee or PeeFenders or whatever. I've never had the soul deep urge to pee standing up. Maybe I'm just the odd one out.

I...may be very strange, but I have always wanted to do this.

Then again, I also hike and camp a lot, so being able to go in the woods without worrying about accidentally pissing on my pants or being snickered at by other hikers/campers sounds good to me.

Course, I could always just get a 2-dollar can of coffee and use the lid. So. Yeah.

I don't like the idea of having to carry around one of these devices and don't know how easy and practical they would be to use but I actually often wish I was capable of peeing while standing, especially at big concerts or parties where I am drinking and really have to go and there is a huge line for the bathroom.

I have only twice in my life been into women’s toilets in my life, and both were definitely not by intention…I simply wasn’t paying attention to the sign, and no one was in the toilet. I only realized it was the ladies when I was in the stall and heard ladies’ voices…and when I left, I only noticed there were no urinals….Suffice to say, it was very embarrassing, as I had to wait in the stall until all the women left, lest I be branded a pervert.

I used to work at a club and when the line to the ladies stretched forever, now and then a couple of ladies would just use the men’s bathroom. My female friends do this occasionally too, because they don’t want to wait in line so they just barge into the men’s room to the envious looks of the other women, and the curious (and sometimes startled) look of the men. I do really think that any women who can just go into the men’s toilet like that just must have guts….I know that if I went into a women’s toilet (like I did in the aforementioned accidents), I would constantly feel like a pervert.

From the Shewee website: Men could just stroll up and be on their way in a few seconds, while women were having to take off backpacks and clothing and then attempting to find somewhere to squat, all the time worrying about touching things for fear of germs, keeping their dignity and keeping warm.
cause vaginas are undignified?

Aint I a woman: I think you are misreading the context of the message there. IMHO, I don’t think its about the vagina being undignified….more like women, in general have to keep their “dignity” and one way of doing that is to not let people see you pee. It is not the female genital per se, but rather the act of seeing a women pee. I am sure you would understand this more than I do.
I am very familiar with this concept as it is rife in Asia. For example, my school use to have two changing rooms, one for the boys, and one for the girls. When the girls’ one was undergoing construction work, they used the boys one and the boys had to change in a room that was partially open (no door, big windows) to everyone who walked by. When the boys’ changing room underwent renovation, the boys once again got the partially opened changing room . The moral of the story: women get to keep their “dignity”, as I guess their body is more taboo, and it is often phrased in various languages as women having “more to lose” by showing their bodies, while men don’t really have any “dignity” in the first place and a naked or semi-clad male body is nothing special.

Well I think this is ultimately up to the consumer. Probably someone who camps and has use for public urination, as the "pop a squat" seems uncomfortable especially exposing yourself to ticks and other insects being so close to the ground and all. The idea seems offensive but I'm sure there is no subtle sexism involved whatsoever. Just the obvious benefits of peeing while standing...

i just hope that this doesn't mean i'm now going to have to deal with women pissing outside my apartment, too!
my apartment building is behind a gas station. my front door faces the back parking lot. although there is a public restroom right inside the gas station, at least 3 times a week i have the pleasure of hearing some guy who's too lazy to walk inside the gas station take a piss. and when it's nice and hot (which is often since i live in l.a.) i can smell the urine baking in the sun.
i understand having to piss outside when one is far from a bathroom. but, why do so many guys seem to think it's okay to pee outside in the city, when there's a restroom so close by?
it is entertaining to wait til they're mid-stream, and yell "wtf? go use the bathroom like a grown-up. you're no better than my f'ing dogs!". this not only scares the hell out of them, but seems to anger them as well. only once in the 2 years i've lived here has a guy apologized for pissing right outside someone's apartment building.

While it isn't something I'd choose for an everyday thing, I've been on enough camping/hiking/middle-of-nowhere and have fashioned similar objects (lids to butter containers make great flexible funnels) that regardless of any misogynistic pushes in the advertising for it, it is an item that has a market.

I don't know about the rest of you... but squatting in a forest sucks. You have to worry about where your pants and shoes are less they get wet and finding a place where the brush is low enough that you aren't getting know nature too intimately... along with worrying about exposing more parts than you want to, to bugs.