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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn other news, people are panicking that the hands on the new Starbucks cup might be lesbian.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/17/1716480/-World-seems-intent-on-assigning-gender-and-sexuality-to-Starbucks-holiday-cupIn 2017, the issue is whether Starbucks very holiday-themed cup has lesbian hands on it.
The hands are a frickin line drawing, yet somehow people have decided the line drawing requires gender and sexuality, and while the Fox News headline currently says Starbucks holiday cup causes social media buzz over mystery hands, the URL says Starbucks holiday cups accused pushing gay agenda.
Starbucks did announce the cups with a video that included, among others, a lesbian couple, but they are not wearing the same clothes that the hands on the cups are wearing.
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Aren't liberals supposed to be the easily-offended snowflakes????????
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)I've never noticed that. In fact, hands are pretty generic, really.
jumptheshadow
(3,269 posts)I used to check the fingernails back during my single days many moons ago.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)Dirt under the nails?
Response to MineralMan (Reply #12)
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MineralMan
(146,329 posts)Please don't post stuff like that here. Really.
jumptheshadow
(3,269 posts)I am gay and in a long-term relationship and I know that many other lesbians will find this funny. Partially because the original post just walked into an inside lesbian joke.
I am sorry if I offended anybody.
Response to jumptheshadow (Reply #14)
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jumptheshadow
(3,269 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)OMG, maybe now I will get an alert..
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(52,317 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)I don't get it.
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(52,317 posts)that dinner party got a bit out of hand, lol!
with short nails, fingers can do things that would hurt with long nails....
Henry Krinkle
(208 posts)It hit me after looking at that pic for a minute.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)I'm really not finding any of this subthread amusing. Not one bit.
jumptheshadow
(3,269 posts)It's been deleted. In the meantime, my partner and I are laughing.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Henry Krinkle
(208 posts)Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)tkmorris
(11,138 posts)Lesbian, Gay, Hetero, or whatever flavor, it's still just sex. And it's the 21st century, a new day has dawned, a new era begun. We can TALK about it now, without hiding, or giggling, or resorting to painfully awkward euphemisms. Lesbians prefer short fingernails because of course they do, and there is no reason for that to make ANYONE uncomfortable. Or unamused.
Betty88
(717 posts)That straight women like nice clean short nails too boys. Take that as a lesson learned from a middle aged lesbian. Thank me later.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)I could tell you a story about fingernails, but maybe we should go to the bar first
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)And Im a gay woman.
Thank you MM.
Sometimes this place is unrecognizable.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)has since been deleted by its poster. I suppose it makes less sense now that the image in that post can't be seen. However, other posts have renewed my objections.
Still, I have been told to "lighten up." I always react negatively to that advice, though.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)And my thank you stands.
jumptheshadow
(3,269 posts)I should have dug deeper into any number of stories available under the keywords "lesbian fingernails" on Google to answer your question. Perhaps I would have found something else that made the point in a mixed environment where most people haven't met each other. Perhaps they would have laughed, and in their impromptu research, come to a new understanding about some of the challenges I faced when I was single.
Or perhaps people would have taken offense anyway. *Shrug.* I did lighten some readers' days at a time when we all need to laugh.
Have a good day. We are.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)I understood the image immediately. It's just that I believe that we are far too interested in how people have sex here on DU. The sex lives of people I'm not involved with are really none of my business. Yes, your image was immediately understandable, but also completely irrelevant to the discussion of the Starbuck's cup, which had nothing to do with that meme.
I found it troubling in a variety of ways, but primarily because of what I said in the first paragraph of this reply. Clearly, not everyone agrees with my opinion, but some certainly do, and have said so.
It's easy to offend people. It's also easy not to do so.
jumptheshadow
(3,269 posts)Who were having a laugh.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)This is so freaking stoopid it's just BEYOND.
Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)Only one of the hands is wearing bracelets.
MattP
(3,304 posts)My limp wrists give me away I hate that but Lesbian hands?
CrispyQ
(36,509 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)lame54
(35,321 posts)Throck
(2,520 posts)Keep closed minded nit-wits out of the store.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)as usual
lunasun
(21,646 posts)All the hands look bigger that trump's
Dr. Strange
(25,923 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)MuseRider
(34,119 posts)and then spend a few chuckles on and off throughout the day. These people. They never change. Few will even let the thought of change enter their little, shallow lives.
When they thought I was a lesbian because I was working for equality, surely a middle aged (then) woman would ONLY do this if she were, they would not even shake my hand in front of a TV reporter and cameras. One finally grabbed the tips of my fingers (I was NOT going to withdraw my offered hand), gave them a quick shake and then wiped his hand off on his lapel.
Oh the horror. If they continue to be shits about this all I can do is laugh at their discomfort and their worry that it is catching, even through a couple of non identifiable hands on a GD holiday cup of coffee.
underpants
(182,877 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)would suggest that they are.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)complain about? Why can't for once in their god damn lives just be happy?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. - H.L. Mencken
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)RobinA
(9,894 posts)that somebody is trying to pull one over on them. Liberal-leaning Starbucks puts secret liberal code drawings on their cups and then laughs when conservatives unknowingly drink from them. "Haha, look at him, he's drinking from a cup with lesbians holding hands, har, har, har." You can't be too vigilant in these times with liberals hiding behind every tree.
Sailor65x1
(554 posts)To give us a break from everything else
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Maybe they should make them with a Nativity scene, but then they might get in trouble if Baby Jesus didn't look white enough or something.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)Starbucks for next years Happy Holiday cup. A black baby Jesus. Lets just piss them fundies right off all proper like.
klook
(12,165 posts)bringing gold, frankincense, and a copy of the Quran.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)Starbucks can't win.
Sailor65x1
(554 posts)It was crazy
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)it's time for them to get a life. How petty and absurd they are.
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)"Sometimes a holiday cup is just a holiday cup."
Sigmund Freud
petronius
(26,603 posts)from RWers, but this seems idiotic even from them. Got to think someone is trolling here...
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)Is that A Thing these days? It looks like it'd be really annoying.
RobinA
(9,894 posts)for a sexual proclivity so outlandish I can't even mention it on here, because a conservative might be reading and they can't know. Rest assured, the people involved will get it immediately.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)Quiet_Dem_Mom
(599 posts)And, those 2 doves in the upper left side could be a bit lesbian-y...
OR IT COULD BE JUST ANOTHER FUCKIN' STARBUCKS CHRISTMAS CUP WITH CHRISTMAS SCRIBBLES ON IT, FER CHRISSAKES!
By the way, I'm way more concerned about the "do not microwave" warning on the cup. Holy crap, I've never not heated up my cup in the microwave!
Doreen
(11,686 posts)repukes and drink in front of them with my new lesbian Starbucks cup just to piss them off even more. What total morons.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Lesbians, like all of us, come in a wide variety.
Thus our hands, and lesbian hands, come in a wide variety.
In my opinion,
those hands remind me of Waldo and Wendy.
klook
(12,165 posts)All part of the defense against our war on Christmas!
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Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)If Starbuck's had plain red and green cups with no logo or image, the snowflakes would still complain.
Bettie
(16,124 posts)The annual war on Starbucks Holiday Cups is at hand and it is WAY more real than the "War on Christmas".
Oh and who actually comes up with this crap? Seriously.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)Now I want some coffee. DU plants an idea in my head AGAIN!