'Art' Urinals Spark Rolling Stones Museum Furor

Women slam mouth-shaped toilets as sexism
By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 31, 2012 4:43 PM CST
'Art' Urinals Spark Rolling Stones Museum Furor
The offending urinals, from a YouTube clip.   (YouTube)

A war has broken out over urinals in a German museum. Women's rights activists are furious over the mouth-shaped men's toilets at the Rolling Stones museum in a northern town, Der Spiegel reports. "Why does it have to be a woman's mouth?" asked one, saying she would have accepted the urinals had they looked more like the Stones' tongue logo—but the toilets don't have tongues. The museum's founder defends his restroom: "That's not a man's mouth or a woman's mouth, that's art. They were damned expensive and they're staying where they are and that's final." (Read more Rolling Stones stories.)

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