Virgin Atlantic Airways was forced to ditch plans to offer hip, fun urinals in the men’s rooms of its lounge at New York’s JFK Airport after feminists complained that the designs were offensive to women, reports the New York Daily News. The airline wanted to put bright-red urinals shaped like women’s lips into the restrooms, but the National Organization for Women had a hissy fit.
“I don’t know many men who think it’s cool to pee in a woman’s mouth, even a porcelain one,” NOW President Kim Gandy wrote on the group’s Web site.
I have no way of knowing, of course, but I’m guessing the Kimster doesn’t spend a lot of time in the internet Newsgroups. Back before the net went GUI, I had a friend once who had a collection of Japanese schoolgirls in uniforms that must have represented a statistically significant percentage of the population of Japanese high school girls. He filled up a twenty-meg hard drive with them! Sure, I was appropriately appalled, but I have to admit that I was pretty impressed with his dedication to his hobby.
And I felt bad, too. Here’d I’d actually been living in Japan for six months and I didn’t bring back one picture of a girl in uniform for the guy.