Mermaids sponsored by Starbucks.

[lightlypoached]

Seen in Newcastle today.

You can even get a 'cute' biscuit to dunk in your vat of coffee.

[ThinEndoftheWedge]

Is that a mermaid being boiled alive in coffee..?

Sounds about right.

[OneEpisode]

It is a non-functional mermaid that is superficially socially acceptable.

[OneEpisode]

Whereas our real gay kids are flapjacks made with identifiable natural ingredients.

[stillathing]

It might have only just occurred to me how devastatingly apt the mascot of a mermaid is to this movement when it applies to children.

[Lordfrontpaw]

Did you not proclaim loudly 'Are you fucking kidding me?'.

[Bluerussian]

I swear at least half these people who say they support Mermaids know little or nothing about the organisation. Someone might say, "They exist to support transgender young people", and the listener will think, "That sounds OK". Tick.

Can they get out of it when they've found out what it's all about?

[womaninblue]

Right, no more Starbucks for me.

[womaninblue]

Oh, and I now know where to target my next stickering foray.

[LastTrainEast]

is that mermaid giving a speech? Is that the end they talk out of ?

[OvaHere]

Douglas Murray discusses the Starbucks/Mermaids collaboration in this podcast. Discussion is in the last 15 minutes or so of the video.

He makes some interesting points about large corporations using social justice issues as a shield for unethical practices. He also mentions the Oxfordshire Judicial Review.

I could sense his genuine anger when he talks about the transitioning of children.

[Forgotthebins]

Stillathing yes I always thought "mermaid" was a weird image for a charity supposedly about self-acceptance. Mythic and fairytale mermaids are beautiful but sexually unattainable because they are sealed up below the waist. I think it says a lot about the founder that she called her charity that, it evokes a real discomfort about children growing into adults and the physical and emotional changes that entails. Which is challenging for all parents but most of us think our job is to help our children navigate puberty, so that they can become independent and make lives and loves of their own, not freeze them in time.

[FearaNohope]

I saw a Twitter thread about this. The ratio Starbucks got was epic

[Aesopfable]

I understood that mariners were afraid of mermaids as they would lure them to their deaths.

[Lordfrontpaw]

I watched a truly dreadful horror films about killer mermaids. Not nice creatures.

[TheRealMcKenna]

OvaHere I listened to that podcast yesterday and thought his furious commentary about Starbucks was fantastic.

I also thought it was interesting earlier in the discussion where he touched on the fact that the ‘post truth’ approach in the world of academia is now creeping into the STEM subjects. This could go some way to explaining why we hear so few voices from the world of biology defending the idea of the reality of biological sex.

[Lordfrontpaw]

‘Post truth’ is just lies though surely?

[TheRealMcKenna]

‘Post truth’ is just lies though surely?

That’s what I’d assume. However, I just did a boring old engineering degree at a boring old STEM university where you had to learn boring things like ‘laws’ and ‘principles’. The pseudo-science of the social sciences just baffles me.

[Durgasarrow]

Mermaids Are Maids

[Durgasarrow]

Mermaids are mythical creatures whose false promises lure sailors to their deaths. If sailors jump ship, the ships are deserted. If ships are deserted, trade is lost, and civilization founders.

[Lordfrontpaw]

Very disappointed sailors too. They think they are getting a sexy babe but it’s all just glitter and fishnets.

[Mockersisrightasusual]

Mermaids are mythical creatures whose false promises lure sailors to their deaths.

AKA Sirens

[Lordfrontpaw]

Sirens were half bird bit half fish. Original surf and turf.

[Lordfrontpaw]

Half bird NOT half fish

[Aesopfable]

Sirens were fated to die if a mortal ever resisted their beckoning

[Mockersisrightasusual]

The mermaid story sometimes put down to sailors spotting basking seals and mistaking them for women. This indicates

a) They'd been at sea a long time

and/or

b) men will fuck anything