Apparently, some people have absolutely no life whatsoever:
Seems that one person’s smut is another person’s morning latte.
A Christian group based in San Diego found grounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo for Starbucks Coffee.
The Resistance says the new image “has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute,” Mark Dice, founder of the group, said in a news release. “Need I say more? It’s extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks.”
The group, which claims more than 3,000 members nationwide and has found a place on the fringe advancing various conspiracy theories, is calling for a national boycott of the coffee-selling giant.
The logo will run on Starbucks cups for “several more weeks,” said company spokeswoman Bridget Baker, and will live on as the logo for Pike Place bags of coffee.
The image is a less-revealing version of what the chain used for many years, starting when it first opened in Seattle in 1971. That original logo was resurrected in its Northwest outlets for a time in 2006 to mark the chain’s 35th anniversary.
Dude, it’s a freakin’ coffee cup. Chill out already.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:11 am
A cup of coffee that is still being heavily purchased. Surely, this is not pornographic, but Starbucks has nearly saturated the coffee market and the cups are everywhere. For many people, nudity is still a taboo thing, particularly in public.
Still, Starbucks may want to reconsider simply on free-market issues. They may gain customers who just want to irritate those boycotting, but I wonder if they would be a large enough group (and stick around for long enough) to make up for the losses.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:54 am
wow. umm unless there is a different cup than the one pictured above, those aren’t her legs to me they appear to be bags of coffee beans. and shes not even nude you cannot see anything her hair covers it up. christians need to find something better to do than ruin everyones day.
May 16th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Mark,
That is the cup/logo in question — it’s on the bag of Pikes Place in my kitchen.
I really don’t get the phobia about nudity anyway — have these people not been to the Sistine Chapel ?