A sign of a stick figure man peeping over the side of a bathroom stall at a stick figure woman sparked a war of words at Clever Blend coffeeshop in Park Slope. View Full Caption DNAinfo/Amy Zimmer

►UPDATE: Coffee Shop's 'Rape Culture' Bathroom Sign Replaced After Uproar

PARK SLOPE — "Rape culture" promotion or funny joke?

A new coffeeshop's bathroom sign depicting a stick figure man peeping over the top of a bathroom stall at a stick figure woman has sparked a massive debate among customers and on social media, as critics decry it as promoting "rape culture" while the store owners say it's just "an innocent stupid sign."

Clever Blend, which took over the Gorilla Coffee space at 97 5th Ave. near Park Place in April, sparked a firestorm with its sign on its single-use, co-ed bathroom door, which sparked a war of words online.

Customers took to Instagram and Yelp to demand owners take the sign down.

"Dude, here's a quick breakdown: women get sexually harassed or assaulted every day and it's never funny," Instagram user @christinawoowoo wrote.

But instead of caving, the owners doubled down, saying that despite the controversy, the sign stays.

Coffeeshop co-owner Luca Tesconi posted a long defense of the sign on its official Instagram feed, saying that they bought it as a joke on Amazon and that anyone who didn't like it should "get in touch with Amazon, EBay Pinterest etc... explain your point of view and convince them to have this silly sign removed from their websites."

"I don't think it's fair that you can just attack us this way," Tesconi's wife and co-owner Nadia Tesconi, who was working at the shop on Friday, told DNAinfo New York. "We're trying to keep everyone happy."

Nadia Tesconi said she thinks the brouhaha was started by a disgruntled customer mad that the store has a no-laptops policy on busy days.

But the store decided to open the decision on the fate of the sign to its customers, adding a handwritten paper sign to its bathroom door inviting them to vote on whether the sign should come down.

“We have received a number of threats and insults from a few internet users that believe this silly bathroom sign promotes violence against women,” an explanation sign on the bathroom door reads, “We are really having a hard time accepting and understanding how some people can turn silly things into an opportunity to judge and insult other human beings. We are not willing to take this silly toilet sign down unless we are sure that the majority of our customers believe we should.”

A "Cast Your Vote" sign invites customers to mark a paper poll with spaces for X marks under "just a silly sign" or "promotes violence."

As of 4 p.m. Friday, there were 9 marks for "silly sign" and 3 for "promotes violence."

A customer at the cafe Friday said she thought the bathroom sign could help promote unhealthy attitudes toward women.

“I don’t think that I would say that it promotes violence, but it is inappropriate," said the woman, who gave just her first name, Valerie. "It gets into your subconscious."