Here’s some follow-up to a story I blogged about last month: Urinals a business removed — the ones shaped like full, lipsticked women’s mouths — have been sold on eBay for a total of more than $7,000.
Earlier I made the point that, yes, they’re sexist (okay, and funny), but they are sexist against a gender that can never see them. They were, after all, in the men’s restroom. It’s kind of a “if a tree falls when no one’s around, does it make a sound?” issue. Women’s rights groups were offended by the pure existence of the urinals, not by any effect they could actually have on females’ lives.
Indeed, stories indicated that no man had ever complained about them. If everyone who comes in contact with a piece of art (ha) is fine with it, and no taxpayer money is involved, where’s the issue?
That said, this outcome is probably the best one. It seems the publicity got the owner a decent price for his troubles, and now no woman will be offended by something she can’t see. Unless she finds out where the urinals ended up. Then we’d have a whole new problem.
The purchasers’ identities have not been released, but all four urinals will stay in Austria.
Robert VerBruggen blogs at http://robertsrationale.blogspot.com.
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