"Sexist and Misogynist" Lip-shaped Urinals up for Bids on eBay

[mandy]

From the auction:

Das Urinal wird selbstverständlich penibel gesäubert und vom Künstler persönlich sandgestrahlt, Zähne geputzt und Mehrschicht-lackiert!

Translation: "Each urinal will be meticulously cleaned and sand-blasted by the artist himself who will brush the mouth's painted teeth and give them a new coat of varnish."

the auction: http://cgi.ebay.at/ORIGINAL-OPERA-TOILET...dZViewItem

Four urinals shaped like a woman’s lips went on sale on eBay on Thursday after being removed from a public toilet in Vienna following protests from women’s groups who said they were sexist.

Designed by Viennese artist Rudolf Scheffel for the “toilet-bar Vienna” next to the National Opera, the urinals featured lips covered in red, orange or blue lipstick, a bright red tongue and gleaming white teeth.

The urinals were in the toilets for three years but raised an outcry in the run-up to Austria’s Oct. 1 parliamentary election when they were used by political party supporters attending rallies nearby...

full article: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15531249/

[BellisimaJ.]

They ARE sexist and misogynist!


  to the  mileyazwipe:    who created them, and 

  to the  mileyazwipe:        who buys them.


  to ebay.

Edited to remove a smiley.