So apparently Starbucks have ‘partnered’ with mermaids

[Kenworthington]

So the manager of my local one told me today. She looked aghast when I said I didn’t agree with it then as I started explaining, she had to take a drive through order. We had been chatting about my eldest ds being gay and she obv thought I’d approve of this collaboration. Hah. . I’m thinking of writing down where I stand on it and passing it to her. I take my elderly mum in there every day for a coffee and pastry. Not any more. Sigh. I hate thats it’s made me ‘that’ person

[NicholasTopliss]

@FrolickingLemon
They are TRAs who stalk individual posters, derail, stir up, goad. Then they report the thread to MN and it gets deleted.

[Pudmyboy]

I have seen a couple of ads on TV for Starbucks with trans people, being called what I assume is their birth name (eg when at a doc's appointment) and looking sad, then being asked for their name at Starbucks, giving their chosen name and having it written on a cup, and smiling: there is some tag line about names being important: I thought Starbucks had just decided to be woke for the ad campaign but if they have tied in with Mermaids that would explain it. I wonder why, and if they will backpedal in future?
As with many of the people posting here I cannot boycott Starbucks as I don't go in unless desperate; have always regretted it when I have as their coffee seems to be made of grit .

[Pudmyboy]

Oops sorry all, I leapt to the end of he thread so all of my previous post has already been discussed: especially how poor their products are!

[Mrstraveller]

I was just watching something I’d recorded and saw the James becoming Gemma advert. They are presenting having life changing surgery and drugs as a simple thing. You go into the Doctor’s office unhappy and come out happy and have your new name put on a cup at Starbucks.

[NicholasTopliss]

There is an interesting discussion over on site stuff right now, about the stalking/ manipulation/ deleting.

[FrolickingLemon]

Thanks for the info @NicholasTopliss I'll nip over and take a look at the thread.

[Quaagars]

@Mrstraveller

I was just watching something I’d recorded and saw the James becoming Gemma advert. They are presenting having life changing surgery and drugs as a simple thing. You go into the Doctor’s office unhappy and come out happy and have your new name put on a cup at Starbucks.

I've seen the advert, it doesn't mention anything about surgery in the slightest, just literally a trans man going in for a coffee and trying out his preferred name/being accepted.

[Quaagars]

Just noticed you said James becoming Gemma - that's the wrong way round, it's Gemma not being accepted at home as James and why he likes the fact he likes his preferred name of James being accepted when goes to Starbucks.