The breakout female star of this year’s Wilderness festival in west Oxfordshire? Not the triumphant return of the 1990s girl band the Sugababes or the set by Christine and the Queens’ Heloïse Letissier. Not even Confidence Man’s Janet Planet or superstar DJ Honey Dijon. Or Carrie Johnson and Florence Pugh instagramming their glitter-cheeked/bunny-eared frolics all weekend. Stealing the show for the ladies was a headlining performance by a truly revolutionary act called Peequal, a new doorless, midriff-high, open-plan, squat-and-go urinal designed specifically for “women” and “gender non-conforming people”. Or, as my two daughters, both festival veterans, called it. “Total. Gamechanger.”
Relieving oneself at a festival, sporting occasion or any big outdoor/indoor public event has long been unfairly skewed towards males. For men, the peeing is
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