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Mermaids sponsored by Starbucks.

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lightlypoached · 13/02/2020 10:13

Seen in Newcastle today.

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

Mermaids sponsored by Starbucks.
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FearaNohope · 14/02/2020 07:18

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

Forgotthebins · 13/02/2020 18:53

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.

OvaHere · 13/02/2020 18:30

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.

LastTrainEast · 13/02/2020 14:48

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

womaninblue · 13/02/2020 14:40

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

womaninblue · 13/02/2020 14:39

Right, no more Starbucks for me.

Bluerussian · 13/02/2020 14:38

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?

Lordfrontpaw · 13/02/2020 14:34

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

stillathing · 13/02/2020 11:44

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.

OneEpisode · 13/02/2020 11:12

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

OneEpisode · 13/02/2020 11:10

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

ThinEndoftheWedge · 13/02/2020 10:15

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

Sounds about right.

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