Tasteless
[Posted by reader_iam]
What I don't understand is why anyone could be surprised that "no man has ever said anything about this."
By the way, is that statement of mine itself sexist?
Now, being a child of my times, the AP photo instantly put me in mind of this:
(And just to confirm, for all time, that I can have a really stupid sense of humor, this...
...made me laugh myself silly, when I stumbled upon it while searching for the first video clip.)
Both tastelessness and silliness aside (or not!), don't you think it would have been funny if those urinals had featured a stream-activated doohickey to launch the playing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show theme song? Or better yet, samples of various songs from the flick? Oooh, baby:
I can make you a man, so touch-a toucha- touch-a me: I wanna be dirty! Hot patootie--bless my soul!--you sweet transvestite, you.
Update: Commenter Tommy provides this appropriate link to Gothamist in response to this post.
I note that a commenter on that 2004 Gothamist post pointed out that the urinal was designed by a woman, Meike van Schijndel, who talked about controversy over her design in an interview here.
Sunday: Welcome, visitors from the Carnival of the Insanities!
What I don't understand is why anyone could be surprised that "no man has ever said anything about this."
By the way, is that statement of mine itself sexist?
Now, being a child of my times, the AP photo instantly put me in mind of this:
(And just to confirm, for all time, that I can have a really stupid sense of humor, this...
...made me laugh myself silly, when I stumbled upon it while searching for the first video clip.)
Both tastelessness and silliness aside (or not!), don't you think it would have been funny if those urinals had featured a stream-activated doohickey to launch the playing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show theme song? Or better yet, samples of various songs from the flick? Oooh, baby:
I can make you a man, so touch-a toucha- touch-a me: I wanna be dirty! Hot patootie--bless my soul!--you sweet transvestite, you.
Update: Commenter Tommy provides this appropriate link to Gothamist in response to this post.
I note that a commenter on that 2004 Gothamist post pointed out that the urinal was designed by a woman, Meike van Schijndel, who talked about controversy over her design in an interview here.
Sunday: Welcome, visitors from the Carnival of the Insanities!
