Starbucks dubbed ‘Slutbucks’ by Christian group because of new logo.
Starbucks dubbed ‘Slutbucks’ by Christian group because of new logo.
In order to compete with less expensive varieties of coffee, Starbucks recently introduced a new roast in order “to shift toward emphasizing brewed coffee.” As part of the campaign, the Seattle-based company re-introduced its 1971 brown-and-white logo that features a two-tailed mermaid. Apparently, the mermaid has caused an uproar because one Christian group has now called for a Starbucks boycott:
“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.“
Jen Phillips at MoJo blog notes, “The fact that Dice doesn’t get the difference between a fin and a foot may be an example of what abstinence-only funding does to education.”
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Seattle-ite here, I have boycotted Starbucks for some time now for a different reason, the owner sold our SuperSonics Basketball team to a Oklahoma Businesscum, who then stole the team and is moving it to Oklahoma, I will never, ever buy another cup of coffee from them.
But anyway, aren’t those Christofascist cute, the things they see in stuff is weird.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:50 pmDice? I LOVED that guy. Remember “Hickory Dickory Dock?”
In my neighborhood, we protested and then boycotted the Starbucks with signs that said “Support your local coffee merchant.” Due to the crushing numbers of tourists, however, it is still around, but gets very little business from the locals.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:52 pmYou think that’s bad?
May 9th, 2008 at 3:53 pmYou should see some of the tasteless garbage that guy named Michaelangelo produced.
What a bunch of homoerotic garbage!
No wonder Pastor Hagee hates Catholics.
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.
Okay, Markie. Please explain how YOU know her legs are spread “like a prostitute”?
…and if the wives of The Resistance don’t spread their legs, well, sucks to be married to them, eh?
May 9th, 2008 at 3:55 pmI just don’t care for their coffee. Or their prices.
I’m all for boycotting stupid people. There’s only so much I can take.
May 9th, 2008 at 3:55 pmFollowing up on most post of 3:53:
May 9th, 2008 at 3:57 pmIf you are LOOKING for porn, you will find it anywhere.
Abstract art is porn if you look at in the right way.
Which makes me wonder why some of these right wingers are looking stuff in the way they do.
This seems to be more of a reflection on the inner minds of “The Resistance.”
Try and deny yourself for so long, and you end up getting turned on by a coffee cup.
Try and deny yourself for so long, and you end up getting turned on by a coffee cup.
Wow! That’s Hot! (sorry, had to do it).
May 9th, 2008 at 4:00 pmPeople are dying.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:02 pmAll the truly smart people have already admitted their waste of money on that piss chain and have ceased being a customer.
Now the religious nuts are working on clearing Starbuck’s stupid customer base.
And thanks, TP, but I don’t need an advertisement of that place. Is Hillary a regular there? Is that why you jump to any criticism of that piss joint?
May 9th, 2008 at 4:04 pmBoycott a naked woman – but do nothing about war, poverty, and disease. Your typical Christian.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:05 pmIf you are LOOKING for porn, you will find it anywhere.
And if your mind is in the gutter you’ll find garbage wherever you look. It must be rough on those who think there’s something wrong with the human body, living in a world filled with human bodies.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
May 9th, 2008 at 4:05 pmAnd displaying their ignoramus status yet again, the wingers present to all their total vacuity re: art history.
Greco-Roman/Renaissance revival is so TEH DIRTY.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:08 pmY’know, I never drink Starbucks because I think it’s lousy coffee, but if these Resistance twerps keep making a stink about the stupid mermaid logo I’ll start buying it just to piss them off. I can always use it to clean rust off of old nails and degrease my engine block.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:08 pmThe logo isn’t quite the same as the original; they covered her boobs. Nice writeup of the logo’s development.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:08 pmNamtillaku Says:
Boycott a naked woman – but do nothing about war, poverty, and disease. Your typical Christian.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Yeah. It’s not like there’s any poverty or conflict or disease in the coffee-growing countries like Yemen or Indonesia or Ethiopia or Guatemala or Colombia.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:08 pmThis is beyond the pale. I would imagine that the American Taliban would have all women wear burkas if they could.
Sorry, I think it’s time to go to Starbucks for several triple lattes. (Yeah, their coffee sucks but the espresso isn’t half bad, and being an espresso gal….)
What an utter waste of time and energy.
Typical republican thoughts.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:08 pmyet, another example of the fundy Bible-thumpers imagination running amok. These Christofascists TRULY ARE agents of intolerance.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:11 pmI must say, however, I’m a bit concerned by this sudden change in logo. Does this mean that Starbucks is finally moving into Phase Two?
May 9th, 2008 at 4:11 pmNormally, I’d look at a string like this and say “who cares?” But this is beyond ridiculous, and most of the comments made are hilarious! I especially enjoyed Skeeter 1″s :”Try and deny yourself for so long, and you end up getting turned on by a coffee cup.”
May 9th, 2008 at 4:11 pmWhy is it that men like Dice have such as issue with a picture of a partially nude woman? He probably thinks that the Venice de Milo statue is in extremely poor taste. My advice Dice if you find it so offensive just don’t buy there coffee. Save your outrage for something really important, like Evangelists preaching hate.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:12 pmBTW- I can’t help but wonder how John ‘let the eagle soar’ Ashcroft is gonna cover up all those logos of boobs.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:14 pmMethinks Mark Dice needs to get a life. I can’t believe he thinks this is the most important crisis facing us today.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:14 pmI do have one point of disagreement with some of the comment here: Count me among those who LIKE Starbuck’s coffee, even the new blend.
Sure it is stronger that most coffee, but it tastes good.
Moreover, Starbucks does a better job than most companies in getting health insurance for their employees and they tend to pay fair trade prices for the coffee that they buy.
For a place that works on volume, Starbucks is a pretty good corporate citizen.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:15 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
Methinks Mark Dice needs to get a life. I can’t believe he thinks this is the most important crisis facing us today.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Just wait till people realize that the mermaid isn’t wearing a flag pin.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:15 pmI guess Im in the minority, but I love Starbucks.
I just don’t get it very often (even though I pass 3 on foot on my way to work) because I guess Im a bit of a fiscal conservative.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:16 pmhussein toasterhead;
LOL! now we will hear Rove, and those other phoney patriots disparage Starbucks for their unpatriotic anti-Americanism.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pmBut wait, if you like at the circle encasing the offensive figure, it appears to almost certainly resemble a……
NIPPLE! (gasp!)
And what exactly does “FRESH ROASTED” mean, anyways? Is that slang for “intercourse with a new partner”?
…and don’t even get me started on ‘LONG JOHN SILVERS’!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 4:21 pmdeebaser Says:
“I guess Im a bit of a fiscal conservative.”
Nope, the “latte-sipping elitist” in you cancels that out ;)
May 9th, 2008 at 4:22 pmIt…is…a…flippin’…CARTOON!!! What is with these fundies, anyway? Good gracious, if they didn’t point out the not so obvious, nobody would’ve thought she was exposing her vagina. Now that’s all I can think about. Coffee with CREAM, fur shure…
May 9th, 2008 at 4:22 pmJohn Ashcroft would cover up the Venus de Milo, just like Lady Justice, because she was flashing a marble nipple at him.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:24 pmIs it possible that Mark Dice truly doesn’t know what a woman’s legs look like?
May 9th, 2008 at 4:24 pmKids have the internet and yet are going to be whacking off to a logo?
Evangelicals have really jumped the shark.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:25 pmIt isn’t KIDS that’ll whack off to it…it’s Mark Dice. He wants to be pre-emptive in keeping his panties dry.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:26 pmThe human body, acording to relidion, was created by God. What is the problem celebrating it? Plus, the logo show a mermaid, a mythological figure. I gess right-wing Christians want to cover the female body like the muslims do. The difference is in the muslim world they do as a sign of humble humility, while the Christians would cover for hypocritical sexual repression. (PS. I’m Catholic, from Brazil and have no problem what so ever with any healthy sexuality! There we celebrate it! And get to worry about real problems like the record oil prices, the Illegal occupation of Iraq and Afegahnistan, the USA torture program, Bush’s criminal intent to attack Iran, etc)
May 9th, 2008 at 4:26 pmI thought Mark Dice was a 9/11 truth crusader.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:26 pm???
Actually, the 15th century engraving Starbucks got their logo from was a bit “naughtier” – in that it did include female bits and pieces. A short history of Starbucks logo can be found at this website:
May 9th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
…and I don’t think Starbuck provides good coffee either!
May 9th, 2008 at 4:28 pmJust wait til O’Reilly and Beck and Hagee and the other clowns hear about this, There will be raucous shouting from the Pulpits of Greed.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:28 pmmisshusseinmolly; Dice may not know what a woman’s legs look like, but I’ll bet he truly knows what a man’s leg looks like-if you know what I mean. heh, heh.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:28 pmPuleeze…sex trumps anything, even ogle-sexing the pseudo-mermaid logo is more important than millions of dead Iraqis. Puleeze…get your priorities straight, or at least in the proper order. I don’t even want to go into the fishy part of it…
May 9th, 2008 at 4:28 pmIn psychological term, when you repress something in the conscious mind, it comes out even stronger in a form of neuroses. When evangelicals repress their sexuality, they are able to see their secret desires even in a Starbuck Logo!
May 9th, 2008 at 4:32 pmbeam me up, Scotty!
no intelligent life here!
now, Scotty!
May 9th, 2008 at 4:33 pmbeam me up NOW!
Uncle Ho Says:
LOL! now we will hear Rove, and those other phoney patriots disparage Starbucks for their unpatriotic anti-Americanism.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Meanwhile Hillary will use it to disparage all those latte-drinking elitists who support Obama.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:34 pmhussein toasterhead Says
May 9th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Meanwhile Hillary will use it to disparage all those latte-drinking elitists who support Obama.
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I thought all the REAL latte-drinking elitists were drinking Tully’s or patronizing their local small-batch roaster. Starbucks is just for the masses of elitist wannabees with four dollars burning a hole in their pockets.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:42 pmMore fundie projection. They are so sexually repressed THEY freak out over simple images, so they automatically assume that’s how the rest of us react. Sorry, the rest of us don’t even look twice at that image, let alone see it in such a sexual, pornographic way.
I think part of the problem is so many of them home-school. Home-schooling is not always bad, but it can produce kids who aren’t exposed to society in many ways. That might be why they overreact so much to random things in society.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:42 pmHow come I think this “Resistance” will be futile?!
Do people like this open up an encyclopedia or do they “parental lock” themselves from everything PG-13 and above in-regards to all media?
May 9th, 2008 at 4:42 pmWow, I wish I had as much free time as Mark Dice!
May 9th, 2008 at 4:44 pmGlad he’s worried about important issues!
deebaser Says:
I guess Im in the minority, but I love Starbucks.
I love Starbucks too. I also love the female body :)~
May 9th, 2008 at 4:44 pmNo matter how much Dice wants them to be legs, they ain’t legs. Mermaids ain’t got no legs!
Question to Dice: Whatever she’s got, were they created or did they evolve? And how does she wrap them up around her ears like that? Looks like she’s a contortionist, too. Doubly offensive.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:48 pmmisshusseinmolly Says:
I thought all the REAL latte-drinking elitists were drinking Tully’s or patronizing their local small-batch roaster. Starbucks is just for the masses of elitist wannabees with four dollars burning a hole in their pockets.
I will say that there have been times, traveling in the boondocks of, say, Boston, where the Starbucks sign was a welcome sight, indeed. If you dump in enough 1/2 & 1/2, it’s drinkable, burnt beans or not.
Starbucks has also been almost single-handedly responsible for the new coffee revolution, because they opened markets up for “good” coffee that had never existed before. Small roasters and coffee shops have sprung up like mushrooms, but primarily (and most successfully) where Starbucks spread the fertilizer. And, obviously, there are some people who like their coffee and stale pastries.
I get my beans at a tiny roaster here in Portland, even abandoned the brilliant Stumptown and TheWorldsSexiestBarista to get their coffee. Still miss that crooked smile . . .
May 9th, 2008 at 4:53 pmDice is a whackadoodle.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:18 pmMaybe Starbucks could hire Ashcroft to design some tiny little napkins they could pin over the logo and charge the freaks another $3.
It’s more fun if you have to peek anyway.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:18 pmAnd how does she wrap them up around her ears like that? Looks like she’s a contortionist, too.
Damn it, Tired of being lied to, now I have a chubby too!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:21 pmAbstinence Based Coffee Consumption.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:22 pmhussein toasterhead Says
Just wait till people realize that the mermaid isn’t wearing a flag pin.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:15 pms:
DRxJ Says:
But wait, if you like at the circle encasing the offensive figure, it appears to almost certainly resemble a……
NIPPLE! (gasp!)
So is she holding her hand over her nipple during the Star Spangled pledge of Allegiance, or can I do that for her?
May 9th, 2008 at 5:27 pmDo these “christians” ever think of anything but sex?
May 9th, 2008 at 5:31 pmThey seem to see sex everywhere. I think they are obsessed and repressed, not to mention paranoid.
imagine no religion…
May 9th, 2008 at 5:31 pmIf someone was harvesting a crop, and nobody noticed, or cared, would it just go away?
May 9th, 2008 at 5:31 pmRemember when these whackos carried on some years ago about the old Proctor & Gamble logo?
I think the Taliban have nothing on these Christofascist reich wing-nuts.
I swear, these whackos make even Charles Manson or the Taliban look completely SANE!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:33 pmpickingcotton,
Are you pointing out that all religious extremists have wires touching? Because you’re not going to get an argument here. The Muslims are even freakier than our Christians, no doubt.
It’s our God given mandate to fight religious idiots of all kinds. And I am not going to let my God Poseidon down. Crom has RUCerious all fired up and ready for battle too.
Or did I miss your point?
May 9th, 2008 at 5:36 pmOh, shit Nan, you mention Crom and within seconds, the skin on the back of my neck stood up!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:41 pmI ducked out of my cubicle and went out on the third floor balcony and let out a Cimmerian War Cry to see if he’d pick up on that and smite the living crap out of croppicker…
Well said nanlichi,
All us Chthonians support you in your fight against ludicrous superstition. May Shudde M’ell bless us all.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:41 pmHi pickingcotton:
May 9th, 2008 at 5:42 pmGot any more stupid unrelated shit? Still scared of black folk?
Once again the English language evades our cropnosepicker.
This site only attacks Christians a fails to shed light on the whole picture
May 9th, 2008 at 5:44 pmWell, excuse me if I seem a little sensitive. Mermaids are as symbolic to my God Poseidon as Easter bunnies are to the Christian God, so when I see someone suggesting that that cute little split-tail is offensive, I rise to her defense.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:49 pmWhat’s wrong with sex? Without it none of us would be here. I’m sure that Jenna is being fitted with a chastity belt at this very moment. Jeez!
May 9th, 2008 at 5:57 pmSure, call a boycott on a corporation that provides jobs to millions of Americans during this crappy economy. How very Christian AND Republican.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:08 pmHere’s a link to a site I’m sure fits their logo requirements..
http://www.motherjones.com/photos/aryan-outfitters/
May 9th, 2008 at 6:10 pm.
Ooh Boobies…
Like Paris and Brittany exposing their crotch in public…
Tawdry scandals ALWAYS make front page news for it is TABLOID JOURNALISM at it’s finest.
Why TP feels compelled to travel down that path is beyond me…
The President and Vice President of the USA are war criminals and this is the best TP can come up with?
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May 9th, 2008 at 6:10 pmAh Ha!…I knew it and now finally something is being done about it!….now let’s talk about Osker Meyer and thoes packs of ….well…you KNOW….exposed weiners!
May 9th, 2008 at 6:11 pmI still am very concerned about those of you who turns the land-o-lakes maidens knees into boobies. Please think of the impact on the children!!!
May 9th, 2008 at 6:13 pmAlways did like reading the Song of Solomon.
May 9th, 2008 at 6:26 pmWinski; pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze!
May 9th, 2008 at 6:57 pmit’s way too early for Halloweenie costumes.
would a two-legged fig leaf help? We are taught to be ashamed of desire and sex but we are tempted with it by the Media and Hollywood. Who cares! In the Congo there are older women, young girls and babies getting raped while watching their entire family get slaughtered. It’s not only the Extreme Evangelicals obsession. It’s this entire planet’s obsession with sex and how “shameful” it is.
May 9th, 2008 at 7:42 pmI’ve not read all of the previous so if this has been said please forgive me.
Jen Phillips at MoJo blog notes, “The fact that Dice doesn’t get the difference between a fin and a foot may be an example of what abstinence-only funding does to education.”
Tru’dat! Toss in some Intelligent Design bullsh|t and instant (not brewed) stupidity and moronic thoughts flow through the streets of a once great nation!!
May 9th, 2008 at 7:47 pmtwenty thousand die in Burma and the world keeps turning; Britney spreads her legs and time stands still.
May 9th, 2008 at 8:05 pmI think Christofascists suck worse than Starbucks any old day.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:30 amDidn’t Fundamentalist Christians miss the bus on the educational aspects of evolution too, this may explain why they are so devoid of reality. A foot may have been a fin. But if it has got scales on its body – it is more likely still considered a fish. It is likely the exposed boobies is what has these Puritanical Dominionist Christians all flustered.
May 10th, 2008 at 12:56 amThe Fundamentalist males get confused with “fish scales” and then “fish net” stalkings because they close their eyes even when they go into the women’s underwear section at Target. These are the people who find the JC Penny’s catalog to be “highly arousing” and a serious talking point after church on Sunday’s. We’re talking people so devoid of imagination and sexual knowledge, they probably do still believe the baby comes out the women’s anus. These people believe in abstinence because without it, they’d have to touch their wives…and then they’d be exposed for the frauds that they are. The porno industry takes delight in the needs of the Fundamentalist female because of all this.
May 10th, 2008 at 3:09 amGod gave us sex and made it pleasurable!
May 10th, 2008 at 4:30 amConsidering that my favourite bar is specialized in strong european ales, with names (and pics in their labels, of course) like 666, Beelzebub, Lucifer, Morte Subite (Sudden Death), etc., most probably I’m going straight to h3ll.
http://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/
May 10th, 2008 at 6:50 amRUCerious Says:
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If someone was harvesting a crop, and nobody noticed, or cared, would it just go away?
That’s exactly what happend to my crops…like magic, up in smoke so to speak.
May 10th, 2008 at 9:11 amI’m a native Seattle-ite and have always gone to Starbucks (but I also get coffee from small, independent coffee shops (Lighthouse, Vivacci, Cafe Vita, Fiore)
The funny thing is that Starbucks has been using this logo since the start. The original store in Pike Place Market has never changed their signage which has the “Siren of Ill Repute.”
How come these “Wrong-Wingers” aren’t practicing what Jesus preached? Helping the poor, sick, outcasts. Turning the other cheek, loving your neighbor.
Nothing like being a sheep with a shepherd more lost than you.
Jesus…. save me from your followers
May 10th, 2008 at 1:23 pmThe more we hear from these folks to more I realize that we are VASTLY underfunding our education system . . .
My greatest dream is all Fundies to abstain from sex and in time, God’s final solution will reduce this group to a humorous footnote in history . . .
May 11th, 2008 at 12:19 amEuhm, guys, the Nike-logo, hello?!
May 11th, 2008 at 7:42 amIf I have ever seen a cameltoe,..!
Hey…you, Conservatives. Have you had a look at the letters Y and V lately? Have a peek at them if you dare and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Y and V are prostitute letters. The type that do it for $. And that scarlet letter O (no doubt pronounced ooooooooh!) and the zero and the exclamation point! This pretty much spells out how our little lower case b got herself knocked up. Lordy!
But we’re depending on you, Conservatives, because only you have got what it takes to guide us and protect us from the filth which lurks everywhere. Yes, even in the Starbucks logo and the entire English filth ridden alphabet.
You have natural, inborn talent we were not born with. You sniff out the bad from the good. A good Conservative is like a good hunting dog but with a nose for pornography.
May 12th, 2008 at 2:00 amI just googled “The Resistance”, and apparently, they are the kind of people who believe in the Iluminati. I’m not making this up, if you simply google “The Resistance”, you’ll find pages marked:
-Underground Bases and Tunnels
-Bohemian Grove
-The Illuminati
-Paris Hilton Going to Jail Party (well, I can understand that.)
-Terminators
-Georgia Guidestones
For a minute, I thought they were a serious Evangelical group like Focus On The Family or AFA, but this group is just plain nuts. Any doubt that they might be 9-11 truthers as well?
May 16th, 2008 at 1:26 amI also googled the name Mark Dice, and found his Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dice). It says that Mark Dice also uses the pseudonym John Conner. Yes, “that” John Conner, the kid in the Terminator movies who’s supposed to lead “The Resistance” against the “Terminators”. From what I’ve deduced, apparently in the future Skynet is going to send terminators disguised as topless mermaids to kill Sarah Conner or John Conner or something.
Hey, I’m writing just like James Cameron! Thanks for the fodder, Dicey-boy
Oh my goodness, are there not more important issues to worry about. Come on you idiotic christain freaks.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:34 pmWE have poverty, homelessness, education, healthcare…. to think about. not some overpriced coffee logo. Guess when your mind is in everyone else’s bed you tend to fantasize about mermaids with two tails…….I looked at the logo for 20 minutes and you know what, I never once thought anything sexual….only artsy, mystical, nautical…not sexual…get a life!
First of all, may I suggest that if you insist on leaving a comment, you check to make sure it is grammatically correct. There is nothing more ridiculous than a person pointing out someone else’s ignorance while exposing their own. Secondly, if you think that the actions of groups such as this represent all Christians, again… ignorance??? I agree that to make a big deal about such a thing is trivial. But seriously, try to muster up a little more intelligence if you want to comment before someone else comes to the conclusion that ALL “democratic libs are nothing but a bunch of ignorant close-minded haters.” Remember, if you want to be known for your tolerance, don’t give the appearance of intolerance of a group who claims a certain religious belief, please.
May 21st, 2008 at 10:21 am