Restaurateur Tim Johnson unveils controversial loos at revamped Everton Park retail centre

A well know Brisbane restaurateur has courted controversy by adding design features to his new bathrooms which some critics have called “sexist” and “tone deaf”.

For all you gents out there, it’s now possible to relieve yourself at a urinal in Brisbane with oversized classic renderings of Marilyn Monroe’s face gazing straight at your naughty bits.

Multiple black and white images of the legendary screen beauty adorn a row of dividers separating the orange troughs.

Yes, we learned about what just might be the most offensive bathroom in the city last night when restaurateur Tim Johnson showed off a video of his revamped facilities at Everton Park.

Marilyn Monroe urinal in venue at Everton Park owned by restaurateur Tim Johnson, who posted this picture to his Instagram account

Johnson, who operates his eateries Corbett & Claude and Comuna Cantina at the redeveloped Everton Plaza retail centre, posted it on Instagram, describing his newly upgraded bathroom as “looking pretty epic’’.

But reaction to the fit-out was as swift as it was outraged, with critics slamming it as “sexist” and “tone deaf”.

“Let’s just think about this for one feminist second,’’ one City Beat source said.

“I’m not even a full-blown feminist and I’m gobsmacked, literally disgusted. I’m so offended by this. What interior designer came up with that?’’

Johnson didn’t return a call on Thursday.

But, in comments sure to elicit a smirk, Johnson said late last year that he had now developed “multiple streams’’ of income after revamping his business model during the pandemic.