Mermaids - sinister photo

Yup. We’ve seen it all before. Old as time. And they never bloody learn.

There's a lot of money to be made in the area of blurring boundaries.

It again highlights the lack of safeguarding.

Agree. There is pressure to be ‘sex positive’, but also to sanitise anything connected with sex.

‘Don’t be a prude, but how dare you imply that there is anything odd about interviewing people in a bathrobe’. It’s the Harvey Weinstein charter.

My kid used to dress up as Spider-Man or a power ranger. I didn’t spend loads of my time and efforts (as this child parents must be doing) to expose him to the adult world and manage his costumes.

It’s just a bizarre photo. As it’s in an advertorial puff piece it would’ve been signed off by Starbucks as well as Mermaids. The photo was probably supplied by the family as an example of Jennie enjoying herself as an average 11 year old girl.

It again highlights the lack of safeguarding. Anyone pointing out that this photo wasn’t appropriate would be cast out as a transphobic bigot.

It’s such a shame we can’t talk about this in plain language.

I am a 60 year old grandma. I’m going to go to Starbucks as often as I can and tell them my name is Bruce or Frank or some typical male name, then loudly proclaim I’m NB whilst chatting to the staff. I can bet that they won’t be so matey with me and will probably think I’m bonkers. Then I’ll take photos of me with my cup to post on their SM pages.

freebritnee if you watch the video Sinead talks about having testosterone injections and double mastectomy. She also mentions that people do often mistake her for a man and that she doesn’t blame them for this or correct them which is very gracious of her. It’s worth watching it all

I look at that and see a number of children who would have probably grown up to be gay. This is such old-fashioned crap - and damaging too.

Mermaids IMO are desperate for validation. They hook up with a big commercial sponsor like Starbucks and write drivel like this, then hope Starbucks will repay them by legitimising them.

I never go into a Starbucks now but when I did I never gave them my real name anyway. It’s just cringeworthy. The child here ‘finding out’ their name from a social media poll says it all. Hate yourself, re-invent yourself, get hooked on validation from social media. That’s not being your authentic self at all, is it?

Sinead (@ImWatson91 on Twitter) is as she says a detransitioned woman. She lived for several years as a transman and had medical treatment to transition, and then desisted. She’s campaigning to support detransitioners and for better care and therapy for young people with gender dysphoria.

I hate to talk out of turn but has she detransitioned and if so from which sex back into which sex? I genuinely couldn’t work it out. I think it was the voice.

Sinead is awesome isn't she, so eloquent and hits every nail on every head.

[quote WarriorN]Actually just started watching this film by Watson and she nails the issues with this mermaid page within the first 5 mins (it's much longer)

Scaredy is wearing a diaper? Excuse me while I vomit.

That is truly as creepy AF

When a minority has corporate capitalism behind it, you know it isn't as oppressed as it would have you believe...

They make crap coffee anyway. The only time I've bought coffee at Starbucks was just at the start of the big lockdown in California last March (we were actually on holiday!) and it was the only effing coffee shop open in the whole of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties as far we could tell.

Actually, the lady just wrote my name and didn’t say anything. They never spell my name right, but it’s okay.

And yet the cup that Jennie is holding has the exact spelling that Jennie uses...

They're not even trying to be convincing with those Starbucks stories.

How many people would be worried about this, if it was to be published in the Guardian/Independent, with Commnents enabled?
The problem is that those news sources are in an echo chamber, where real views arew supressed.

'Scaredy considers herself a "bedroom queen"—a queen who only does drag in privacy rather than a live performer'

A PP earlier said it was a meet and greet at a set.

If the reason for the bed is because of the bedroom Queen thing. That makes no sense if they're having photos taken on a set...?!

That nappy pic is. I don't like it. Fetishy and just. Creepy.

And the bed and the kids toys... It just feels totally off.

So many people will have been involved in setting up the shoot, at the shoot itself, production... then the designers, proofreaders, editors, whoever signed off the final format. So many people with zero spider senses.