Rolling Stones Lips Urinals Receive Feminist Complaints
Thursday, 02 February 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
English rock legends The Rolling Stones have inspired some new novelty urinals at a museum in Germany – which have already received complaints from feminist groups and campaigners.
The new urinals take after the iconic lips logo, which is now synonymous with the band, and are used in the men’s toilet of a brand new Rolling Stones museum in Luechow. But, although the lips were originally based on frontman Mick Jagger’s own pair of smackers, feminists have now decided to piss (not piss) on the parade of Rolling Stones fans, and have lodged complaints that the urinals are ‘discrimination against woman’.
A feminist who lives in the area told the Los Angeles Times: “Its discrimination against women. If the urinals sported a tongue, it would have been acceptable because the identification with the band and Jagger would have been unmistakable. Without it, it's a woman's mouth, not a man's mouth.”
But, museum owner Ulrich Schroeder has stood firm and denied that the urinal looks like either a man’s mouth or a woman’s mouth or that it’s based on anything other than the iconic Rolling Stones logo - firmly adding: “Its art. It's staying.”
What do you think of the complaints – are these toilets really discriminative against women? Or are the feminists just going mad. Let us know in the comment section below.
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The new urinals take after the iconic lips logo, which is now synonymous with the band, and are used in the men’s toilet of a brand new Rolling Stones museum in Luechow. But, although the lips were originally based on frontman Mick Jagger’s own pair of smackers, feminists have now decided to piss (not piss) on the parade of Rolling Stones fans, and have lodged complaints that the urinals are ‘discrimination against woman’.
