"Coffee chain Starbucks recently launched a new ad campaign featuring two well-known drag artists – American Idol star Adore Delano and RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bianca Del Rio."
The real story here is that Starbucks is making their ads with people who are extremely hateful towards trans women, so that's an actual reason not to go there.
I'd never heard of either of those people, so I looked them up - and I'm still not seeing transphobia, not even as much as a "controversy" section on Wikipedia.
Got a link?
(In the mean time I will continue to not go to Starbucks because they will continue to not serve anything I want to eat. Their plain coffee is terrible, I don't drink coffee milkshakes, and if I wanted overpriced crappy sandwiches and bottled water I would make better ones at home and set fire to a $10 bill. So I can't effectively boycott them *and* I still wouldn't spend money there if I loved everything about their company.)
I never liked Starbucks. However, my ex-boyfriend (a transman) prefers them over other coffee shops. Their washrooms are always clean and unisex, which avoids a potential source of conflict for transfolk.
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Date: 2014-11-06 01:15 am (UTC)The credulous are never going to get satire/humor, are they?
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Date: 2014-11-06 01:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-06 01:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-06 03:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-06 08:30 am (UTC)Wow, so NOT trying that. (Sodomites or otherwise.)
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Date: 2014-11-06 08:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-06 08:39 am (UTC)The real story here is that Starbucks is making their ads with people who are extremely hateful towards trans women, so that's an actual reason not to go there.
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Date: 2014-11-06 01:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-06 10:33 pm (UTC)Got a link?
(In the mean time I will continue to not go to Starbucks because they will continue to not serve anything I want to eat. Their plain coffee is terrible, I don't drink coffee milkshakes, and if I wanted overpriced crappy sandwiches and bottled water I would make better ones at home and set fire to a $10 bill. So I can't effectively boycott them *and* I still wouldn't spend money there if I loved everything about their company.)
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Date: 2014-11-07 02:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-11-07 03:34 am (UTC)warning: it's super awful