Monday, March 22, 2004

Virgin Won't Put `Kisses' Urinal in New York Airport, Post Says

March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., responding to critics, said it canceled plans to install urinals shaped like a woman's mouth in a restroom at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, the New York Post reported.
John Riordan, vice president of customer services at the second-largest U.K. airline, said in a written statement, ``We can assure everyone who complained that no offense was ever intended,'' the newspaper reported.
Rita Haley, president of the National Organization for Women's New York chapter, said at a news conference yesterday that use of the urinals would be ``a symbolic act of degrading and humiliating women.''
Riordan said Virgin intended the ``Kisses'' urinals, which resemble a woman's open mouth, to be ``fun and quirky.'' The urinals were to have been installed at Virgin's executive clubhouse at Kennedy, the newspaper said.


Didn't take long for some killjoy to scupper that idea, though I can't say i'm surprised.