Letters to the Editor
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If he thinks those are legs
He's got more serious problems than being shocked at a logo.
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Let Them Boycott
Let them boycott Starbucks if they don't like the logo.
Starbucks will be a better and more pleasant place without these folks cluttering it up and bothering people with their reactionary views.
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Christian psycho element
Did you read the article on a substitute teacher being suspended for "wizardry" in Land O'Lakes Florida?
Christianity is a belief system which should not be forced on other people. Christians ought to acknowledge that they have been railroaded by charlatans for centuries. Religion is used to control the weak-minded. Never forget that the Dark Ages were brought to you courtesy of Christian book-burners.
Naked mammary glands! Scandal! Horror! We cannot have this! Put a burka on that mermaid, for God's sake!
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To each one's own
It's a full-city roast, same as at Peet's, and when you roast quality coffee that way it brings out all the best in a bean. Not all sour like most underroasted java.
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Who Has The Dirty Mind Here?
"Legs spread!" cries the fundamentalist. LEGS!?!? She's a freaking mermaid, for the love of GOD, she doesn't have legs, she has a tail! Talk about wanting to see perversion and attack where there is none. C'mon.
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Not a mermaid.
A siren. And those aren't legs.
The logo is the original, still in use at the first store, at Pike's market.
All that being said I would totally buy my doppio at Slutbucks.
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@)@)
The Christians and the Secularists cannot get enough of giving Starbucks free advertising, for some reason this has become their mission in life. I didn't even know Starbucks was going with the retro logo, but I do now. Thanks Salon for always looking out for the winners!
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I'm more incensed...
...about that new dreck they are pushing, "Pike Place Blend." I don't care what the cup looks like, just what's in it. I do remember a few years back, they changed their logo to eliminate the mermaid's belly button; I heard it was because some groups were saying it was too erotic.
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Last I heard
The Christian Right *would* be upset by such an image, it's basically a pagan goddess. Friends at Div school said it was Yemeja, an Orisha, goddess of the sea and fertility thus the "spread legs". Though, I thought Christians had shifted their hatred from paganism to Islam about 1500 hundred years ago.
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There it is
An absolutely lovely discussion of the topic:
http://www.endicott-studio.com/jMA03Summer/theMermaid.html
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Christian wackos vs. Muslim wackos
Oh, geez.....
Don't you just love it when some Christian group gets outraged over an innocuous display of the human body and makes complete fools of themselves?
They make the rest of us feel so good about ourselves ("I may be an idiot, but these people are real idiots").
But our home-grown Christian fundamentalist wackos pale by comparison with Muslim fundamentalists. I read recently about a father in Afghanistan who cut off his daughter's nose and ears because she had the bad fortune to be raped.
She had shamed him because she was raped. (Is that the height of pathological self-absorption, or what?)
So whenever you feel the urge to dump on Christian wackos like this group that's outraged over the Starbucks logo, think about the real wackos out there, and be kind.....
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Perhaps it's time for a revival
It seems like some Christians might need some legitimate good ol' fashioned persecution to help them regain perspective.
If we start randomly feeding them to lions, they probably won't bother worrying much about coffee logos.
I'm just saying.
I wonder if missionaries and christian-aid workers in North Africa have time in their busy schedules of helping the sick, homeless, and maimed to put out a press release siting their unified indignation over scandalous logo illustrations.
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Christian wackos
Did you look at this guys web site? Scroll half way down and you will find discussion about the Bohemian Grove and the Illuminati and Skull & Bones. This is either a joke or the guy is a serious nut job. He is also supporting Ron "bat shit" Paul, another nut job. I didn't look to hard but I'll bet there are screeds about the gold standard and the federal reserve on this site. Don't waste you time with this.
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You're out of date on the coffee
Starbucks stopped that thing of just having one style of coffee (and that, as you say, seriously over-roasted) years ago. Back then I only went in when I couldn't find anywhere else open. They now have a bunch of blends and roasts on rotation. Haven't yet tried the Pike's Place one, but Cafe Verona I buy to take to work.
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Christian group?
As the Gawker article says, more of a "Wacko Conspiracy Theory Group". I mean, go to the website that BS has a link to.
There's a whole list of links to members of The Resistance calling (it seems especially) FAUX News shows and right wing radio cretins, just to get airtime and piss them off. While generally in favor of such behavior, these Resistance people are truly beyond the pale. Their biggest hobby horse seems to be that W. and the neocons intentionally caused 911 (sheesh).
Now, I truly dispise the crowd in the White House right now, but I've got to agree with Bill Maher on this one -- these 911 theorists are truly batshit crazy. "You've got to find the one thing I agree with Bush on" (that foreign terrorists DID perpetrate 911). I mean, really folks. Geez.
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legs spread?
good lord, for somebody who probably doesn't believe in evolution, these folks have a strange idea of what constitutes legs.
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Hmm...
I'm pretty sure the old logo used to have visible nipples. Lucky thing they change that or they'd really be feeling the wrath of righteous Xians.
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it's not just dark roasted
naw, their coffee is just overroasted until it's burnt. lots of authorities say that.
i do like the new pikes place though. it's obvious they are going after the dunkind donies market, and vice versa.
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christians vs. naked deformed mermaid
Who do you think is going to win...I mean seriously...she doesn't even breed like humans...she's part fish...the lower half of her body doesn't even own a vagina...
It reminds me of that episode of futurama when fry is about to have sex with a mermaid...she's like, "this is the part when I lay my eggs and leave and then you spray them with your fertilizer." and then he runs away screaming....
If that's the idea of the Christian communities porn...then I'm shocked.