Video of Starbucks employee in UK branch

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https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/1655477645184835586

It’s not clear what the customer said, it’s presumed she misgenders the employee as he calls her transphobic. He calls her Karen and then either grabs the phone or the person who’s filming.

Excellent point @Usedtobeuser76538 no excuse to use the name Karen as a slur anywhere - but even less so in a cafe that takes such trouble over customer’s and employee’s names.

If VTPHP deliberately ignored Vanessa’s name in favour of slur - well that that must be worse than literal violence, surely, in they’s ideology?

It's reasonably close to Solent University which has quite a lot of lecturers on its books whose output is informed by Queer Theory.

Dementor?

Ooh, ooh, Honeydukes?

I’m hoping that JKR at least came up with Dickweed as a name.

Muggle?
Expelliarmus?
Crucio?

Hippogriff? Please let it be Hippogriff.

The Daily Mail wants people to snitch and name them, so I'm sure someone will soon. Nobody here has got it yet. Would people really stand in a field yelling Honeydukes at a dog?

But Southampton ferry terminal?

Don’t be so heteronormative. Nowt as queer as folk ferries.

Peeves

Not Hippogriff? 😟 Can we not just say it is?

Thanks, @AutumnCrow. It's starting to make sense now. Well, not actually make sense because it's intrinsically nonsense, but you know what I mean.

Mind you, @StarbucksKaren, we could all start going into Starbucks and giving our name as 'Karen'. That'd be fun.

Tonks
Riddle
Muggle
Newt
Skeeter

(This is like the Baby Names thread! 'I need a sibling name for Sadducee')

@Usedtobeuser76538 "VTPHP was not referred to as a lady at any point"

very true - Until IW got involved, India is ignoring VTPHP's actual gender identity and preferred pronouns and incorrectly calling them a "trans woman" and a "she"

VTPHP was not referred to as a lady at any point.

Except by HotDiggety in their rush to demonstrate ther genderist credentials 🤣

@Katherine1985
I'm definitely going to do this, all hail to the Karen 🙌🏻

But would I need to show photo ID at Town Quay or get thrown out without my soya caramel macciato blond roast ?

Absolutely @Rightsraptor we totally should. It’d be fun and a way of honouring Vanessa - she who wasn’t to be shut down by seal clapping or deterred by a public Karening.

Yes if every woman’s Starbucks cup has Karen on it, any woman can defend herself or speak up if needed without fear of being called Karen because we all are …..

I would. But then my cat is called something you wouldn't associate as a cat name.

Thinking about it, Honeydukes would be a great name for a horse.

Voldemort?

Joking aside, please don't name him if you know who he is. Public speculation about the events along with his name could be argued as being prejudicial to a fair trial, should he end up in court for criminal damage and assault.

I reckon it’s Crookshanks and I will not be argued with.

Slightly off topic, but about 15 years ago I was at a conference, and the speaker took questions from the audience at the end of his presentation. "Yes, the lady over there" he said, inviting the first person to ask a question. To which he got a huge rant from the woman, tearing him off a strip for referring to her as a "lady." What was he supposed to say? "The woman over there" somehow sounds too blunt, but why? We teach our children that "lady" is the polite form of reference - we say "give the money to the lady" if we let them do the paying in a shop, for example.

Since then, Little Britain has added overtones to the word

An added layer in this scenario, perhaps?

I think I agree with @Waitwhat23 on Honeydukes for a horse.

Voldemort is more of a hamster name.

ArcaneWireless cool user name btw.
It's funny I've always loved the film, watch it numerous times, but never really honed in on that scene, then watched it more recently and wondered how the TRAs haven't demanded for Reg's (played by John Cleese) line to be cut. I always thought the Pythons were well before their time!