Daughter wants a Go Girl for her 12th birthday

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Check out Houston if you want to find some big mosquitoes. And large cockroaches, too.
 
1Lord1Faith said:
They don’t work anyway. Unless you want pee all over yourself. So, there’s that.
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Every time I’ve peed in the woods…even without a Go Girl…I’ve managed to pee on myself anyway. We just aren’t very adept at going in the woods…😂😂😂
 
I think it is important to teach your daughter the correct terms for her body and not use terms like “hoo hoo”.

It is perfectly acceptable to NOT want to squat in the woods. You are overreacting.
 
As a girl who is often irritated at the ease with which men can relieve themselves when out hiking, etc. I think it’s a great idea and I want one too.

You are likely overthinking it, unless there are genuine signs of gender dysphoria, I would be fine with this.
 
I’m against it! When I was in college, a few girls I knew had a secret club. To become a member, a young woman had to sneak into a men’s restroom and micturate into a urinal while standing up.
If we allow devices like the Go Girl, then what’s to happen to the meaning and value of secret clubs like my friends’?
 
I’m irritated with how quickly men can relieve themselves anywhere not just hiking.

Anyone who has gone hiking knows it about planning and trying to get the hike in early. Can’t imagine trying to remember to bring another thing, barely remember things that are essential to survival in case of emergency.
 
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It is no joke that Minnesota has some huge mosquitoes, evidently because of all the lakes. I’m from Iowa, but I’ve visited Minnesota and some are really big. Perhaps it is that way in Louisiana as well because of the swamps?
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When a dear friend was graduating from the US Marine Corps at Parris Island, So Carolina, our family visited what I believe was a nearby state park on the afternoon before the graduation ceremony. We couldn’t believe that barricades would block the entrance at a certain time, but we were ready to leave much earlier because dark swarms of H U G E mosquitoes were leaving welts on us. I admire the people who persist in living around that part of the country when they must contend with those monsters! They swarmed there, too, @(name removed by moderator). And, @GladTidings, yes, add mosquitoes to the litany of problems I mentioned in that roughing it scenario in Post #42.
 
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So you rinse it out after a use?

Have any of you ladies seen this at a public restroom? Or porta potty?

For that cleanliness, I would not take issue.

It might beat making the nest on yucky toilets

Doesnt sound like an exciting b-day present, though. 😋
 
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Urination’s a concern, how about getting clothing and/or shoes wet in a stream, wading up to thighs, mosquitoes, staying on the right trail, ticks, not replacing electrolytes and dehydration, snakes, bears, cold and darkness setting in. I guess it depends on where you hike.
 
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And you hike with that? With a 5 gallon bucket, double like with trash bags and a toilet seat?

Because a relatively small folding funnel in a baggie sounds much easier to carry.
 
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I’m against it! When I was in college, a few girls I knew had a secret club. To become a member, a young woman had to sneak into a men’s restroom and micturate into a urinal while standing up.
If we allow devices like the Go Girl, then what’s to happen to the meaning and value of secret clubs like my friends’?
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I was in an all-girls dorm suite in college that 6 girls had lived in for years. The year I moved in maintenance suddenly showed up and installed a urinal in the bathroom (which already had a normal toilet that we used in the normal way). I realize the intent was probably to have all the suites able to be used by men if necessary to make it a male suite, but at the time us 20-year-olds thought this was ridiculous and we proceeded to use the urinal for everything other than its intended purpose, like putting a bouquet of flowers one of us received from a guy we didn’t like very much in there and taking a picture. One girl was married to a serviceman and he came home on leave and actually used the urinal which made us all laugh embarrassedly. I think that was the only time a guy actually used it in the 2 years I lived there since most guys weren’t going to whip out their junk in a girls’ suite bathroom.

Now if we’d all just had these GoGirl thingies we could have been peeing in it right along!
 
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This is true and you’d be surprised how fast you can pee.

It is a good idea to hit the port-a-potty if available before hiking .It may be that the daughter is afraid to go off the trail to get privacy.
 
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Well yeah, but asking for information when it’s something you really don’t understand is a good thing.
 
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I see the logic, but, as a Dad, I have visions of her someday deciding she wants to be called Oliver instead of Olivia. All because of something like this.
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The so-called “Go Girl” is not a moral issue. Urinating standing up or down is an accident of biology, not anything essential to nature of either gender.

In the 1940/60’s, some building’s actually installed urinals for women (they were only remotely practical when wearing a skirt). My science building at college still had some in the bathroom that hadn’t been renovated.
 
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