As part of their reinvention campaign, Starbucks re-introduced its vintage 1971 brown-and-white logo featuring a two-tailed mermaid (or siren, to be specific). But Mother Jones' Mojo blog reports the image of a female figure spreading its tails has made a few Christians vow to boycott the company. "The Starbucks logo has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute," explains alarmist Mark Dice, of a Christian group called The Resistance. "Need I say more? It's extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks." As MojoBlog and AdAge point out, the Starbucks siren is half fish, so she doesn't even have two legs to spread. But I guess those details don't really matter. Anyway, for interesting reading, here's a short history on the evolution of the Starbucks' logo.
Starbucks' 'slutty' mermaid angers Christian group
As part of their reinvention campaign, Starbucks re-introduced its vintage 1971 brown-and-white logo featuring a two-tailed mermaid (or siren, to be specific). But Mother Jones' Mojo blog reports the image of a female figure spreading its tails has made a few Christians vow to boycott the company. "The Starbucks logo has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute," explains alarmist Mark Dice, of a Christian group called The Resistance. "Need I say more? It's extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks." As MojoBlog and AdAge point out, the Starbucks siren is half fish, so she doesn't even have two legs to spread. But I guess those details don't really matter. Anyway, for interesting reading, here's a short history on the evolution of the Starbucks' logo.
I am a Christian, and while I find the bare breasts perhaps a little too uh...bare, I would never have found issue with the tail/fin deal.
All in all, it really is not a sexual image except for those with perhaps a fish fetish.
I am FAR more concerned with those little nasty "bikini shacks" and lingerie barista places.
That is something that The Resistance should be sounding the alarm about. Yeah, yeah, I know - it's a free country. But there is still something wrong with it.
That's quite a bold statement from a guy that has no problem using female sexuality to sell his propaganda. This video link is on his website:
http://revver.com/video/254292/babes-in-bikinis-talk-politics/
(safe for work, depending on your work)
Mark Dice is just another American that is schizophrenic about sexuality and needs to be ignored in order to make him go away or change his name again.
There are quite a few historic paintings of the virgin mary showing her breasts, so I find those quite offensive and to top it all off all those paintings of a naked baby jesus should be considered child porn! ;-)
Are you kidding me, this guy has obviously nothing better to do, my guess is he files a civil lawsuit next claing he has suffered emotional distress.
Hahahahaha! What a moron.
There are so many other things in this world that would actually be worthy of his scorn, this is just silly.
It is hard to take his group's adgenda seriously when Mr Dice makes stupid statements like this.
What really really angers me, are the "slutty" priests taking little boys behind the altar and having their way, and thoroughly ruining their lives forever. Does that matter to anyone? Oh...lets just get all up in arms over a "logo" that wouldn't hurt anyone. Breasts are givers of LIFE. They provide milk for newborn infants!! Thats right....un-ABORTED infants. stfu
Jeff
That reminds me I need to pick up some more Starbucks at the store tonight for the coffee maker.
As for this tool's comments ... wow. That's pretty left field. Maybe we should cater to everyone in the world remotely insulted with anything so that we'll have a society built on the backs of hard-working lawyers ready to sue at a moment's notice anyone who says or does anything that can, may or will insult anyone else.
Or maybe we just need to take people like Mark Dice, load 'em into one of those circus-style human cannons and shoot him into a brick wall just for laughs.
Oh my goodness!! are ya joking me? Do you mean to tell that Christians dont have sex? They spread there legs at least once a month to produce children and they are usually to be found in personals because they cannot get a date! We are all created equal this logo has been around for 30 plus years! So stop this nonsense!!
Maybe they should bring their own travel mug in with them and then they won't have to look at the "offensive" log on the cup. Mark Dice needs to spend his time on something better - as a good christian perhaps he could rally his group to send aid to Myanmar or China, and actually do some good!