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The Resistance says the new image "has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute," Mark Dice, founder of the group, said in a news release. "Need I say more? It's extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves, Slutbucks."
Originally posted by vor78
Who friggin' cares?
The logo is a throw-back to what the chain used when it first opened in Seattle more than 35 years ago.
Originally posted by kdial1
Anyone know what she is holding in this logo?
"[Creative partner Terry Heckler] poured over old marine books until he came up with a logo based on an old sixteenth-century Norse woodcut: a two-tailed mermaid, or siren, encircled by the store's original name, Starbucks Coffee, Tea, and Spice. That early siren, bare-breasted and Rubenesque, was supposed to be as seductive as coffee itself."
Originally posted by Hal9000
Didn't you read the article?
[edit on 5/15/2008 by Hal9000]
Originally posted by vor78
I find no offense in it at all.