Maybe you've heard. Starbucks is testing an update of their logo, which portrays a mermaid with a double tail. The current, regular logo mainly features her face and upper torso.
A fundamentalist Christian group in San Diego is apparantly outraged by this image. According to Mark Dice, founder of the group, the logo "has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute. Need I say more? It's extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks".
Personally, I think Starbucks' prices are far more obscene than that pretty little mermaid.
Not to mention the hypocrisy of certain mysoginistic religious factions.
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Kinda hard to know who to root for on this one, huh? I mean, I hate to defend Starbucks, but honestly, the Christian sex-phobes are just too much.
I'm no Starbucks fan either Gracie, but damn!
Ah, well...you may remember me ranting about Starbucks on POL. Sure, this objection is ridiculous, but being from Seattle, I have been sick of Starbuck's smug hype for a very long time. It's become such an institution here, that they have completely lost site of the fact that they sell coffee and that trends almost always do eventually turn, you know? Good to see you, Grace. Is FTR around?
Well, well.
SOME folks have TOO much time on their hands, huh ?
Now- if the complaint was only about how attractive the logo was-
Then.....
I nearly cannot belive this...
I LOVE mermaids in any form an position! :-) Even on Starbucks-cups.
lillie
Lillie, Sharil, good to see you here!
Starbucks is annoying, yes, but I just can't believe that this has tripped someone's trigger. Actually yes, I can believe it, but it's just really annoying.
What next, the Coppertone baby? Or has that image been protested too?
Aesthetically speaking, I think the image is just plain ugly. The legs remind me of a pair of braids like Laura Ingals from Little House on the Prairie (tv show) used to wear as her hairstyle. So to me, it looks like the mermaid is pulling up braids. Just doesn't work for me.
Dawn :)
I think her face is kind of pretty. Double tailed mermaids are quite medieval, so I like them. :) She looks like something that was depicted on an antique map. Yeah, her tails in her hands are a bit weird looking. But there is nothing pornographic about it, at least not in my mind. Sexual maybe, but not porn!
Well I learned something new everyday and today I learned from you that medieval mermaids had 2 legs - so to speak. I never knew that. Her face is pretty but I still don't like the image. I can't makes heads or tails out of it. lol
G'day lady.
Dawn :)
God.... what is my problem today with typos?????
One more time here:
Well I learn something new everyday and today I learned from you that medieval mermaids had 2 legs - so to speak. I never knew that. (thanks for the factoid). Her face is pretty but I still don't like the image. I can't make heads or tails out of it. lol
G'day lady.
Dawn :)
Well, you may not believe this, but I love Starbucks. I love them insanely. I had a dentist appointment this afternoon and soothed my nerves with a grande chai and a vanilla scone after. I buy a pound of Starbucks a month, ground for auto-drip, usually Sumatra, sometimes Kenya, sometimes one of the seasonal ones if I'm feeling adventurous. I buy Starbucks CDs and I have Starbucks mugs. I have written Starbucks thank-you letters for opening stores in places where I thought they should be (the Jersey Turnpike and National Airport), and have sent Starbucks letters informing them of empty storefronts where I thought there should be Starbucks. And they are a client. And I think they should draw a big ol snatch right in the middle of the mermaid's twin tails, and tell the Fundies to kiss it.
hahahaaaa, now that would give them something to complain about. Because vaginas are evil, you know. And sinful. And slutty.
Like boobies. We only grow them to be provocative, because we are agents of the devil.
bwaaahahaha
Dear LORD, folks-
You forgot the TEETH...
Good ole vagina dentalis.
I get them filed! What do you want? LOL
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