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Controversial Urinals in Vienna
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Having been in Vienna last summer, I was disappointed to learn a little too late about a most extraordinary bathroom.
The Toilet-Bar Vienna is a small public bathroom located in an underpass near the National Opera. As you can see from the photo above, this is no ordinary bathroom. For the small price of just 75 cents, patrons of the urinal arts can relieve themselves in some of the most decorative urinals ever conceived by man.
Unfortunately, someone blabbed their mouth off to the opposite gender and local women's rights groups eventually forced the proprietors to remove the sexist objects.
The creator of the lip urinals eventually sold them on eBay, so who knows where they might appear next. If you happen to run across them in a bathroom located in some sexist corner of the globe, don't tell anyone!
Filed under: Austria
Reader Comments (Page 10 of 10)
sunshinegirl Sep 1st 2007 7:45PM
I'm a woman, and I think this is absolutely hilarious!! Only a woman who is not confident in herself will feel degraded by a freaking urinal. You can't be serious.
BL Sep 1st 2007 7:53PM
And exactly WHY would these be a "women's mouth"??? THey are a mouth WITHOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION for Pete's sake. Let humor, however sick someone else may think it is, be humor for humor's sake!
Jill Meo Sep 1st 2007 8:05PM
Jeez! I am so tired of hearing stupid stories about uptight people. Lighten up! Who cares what the stupid urinals look like? I thought they were kind of funny myself. (I am a woman by the way).
Noelle Sep 1st 2007 8:08PM
The puckerd lip is a classic respresentation of women. I hate these morons claiming these toilets are non-gender, when the urinals are EXCLUSIVE to men. Straight men, don't poke their lips out and wear different lipstick colors as females do. Even if the lips belong to a screaming drag queen, we know they imitate women anyway, so the ridicule once again falls back on women. These people with their blinders on, need to get over their stupidity and desperation to make an argument for themselves. Worry about why you sound stupid, not whether or not something is petty.
I'll tell you what's funny though, watching some of these male posters pretend they're women and some of the women joining in for the laugh that's on them. Let me just say, If the majority women thought like the few here, it would be 1950 in 2007. Get a clue. The urinals were removed for the offensive trash they are and that works for me, it's time for a change of good, and I'm glad to see Vienna, Austria is strong on women's rights.
Tom Sep 1st 2007 8:14PM
The women do this because the men let them get away with it. Can't anyone just say no to the cronic complainers?
Tim Sep 1st 2007 8:34PM
Womens rights? What in HELL does this have to do with womens rights?.....the right to WHAT? Well I'll tell you this...if it were up to me, I would have told the womens rights group who "bitched " about these urinals, "tough luck, lady".....men have "the right" to piss in any kind of urinal they so choose..."so get a life"..
Heather Sep 1st 2007 9:07PM
I am a woman and I think it is hilarious! Some people just don't have a sense of humor.
web jones Sep 1st 2007 10:33PM
I'm a 52 yr.old female and I think these are a HOOT! How freakin' funny! LMAO!!!!
Sly1tr Sep 2nd 2007 1:35AM
As a male, I would never enter an unhygenic bar such as this one, regardles of the shape or form of the urinals. To have to shake hands with someone who may have used these facilities, would be not of my choosing. Ugh!
Eliabeth Brown Sep 2nd 2007 4:48AM
Piss on 'em is the most appropriate comment yet
Sally Sep 6th 2007 2:47PM
What if it were a toilet shaped like a masculine mouth with a fake "beard" and moustache around the seat? Make a difference? What if they were toilets in the women's room instead? What if they resembled baby's mouths, pacifiers and all? Still funny?
What if the urinals were shaped like the hind ends of various barnyard animals? Still think men would find them amusing? How about a very rotund, masculine, hairy, posterior sculpted to mimic "plumber's butt crack?"? I think that would be hysterical. But patrons sticking their d**k in the vicinity surely wouldn't (at least not the straight homophobic ones) - the others might.
This is not "art". It's cheap capitalization of men's degrading, porn-inspired fantasies. You want art in a restroom - build a freaking fresco.