Is this really offensive?

[Hortical]

By Starbucks, Starbucks


New revealing Starbucks logo has group screaming 'Slutbucks!'

By PAUL WALSH, Star Tribune
Last update: May 15, 2008 - 9:37 AM
Starbucks , Starbucks



Seems that one person's smut is another person's morning latte.
A Christian group out of San Diego has found grounds for outrage over the new logo for Starbucks Coffee.
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."
The group, which claims more than 3,000 members nationwide, is calling for a national boycott of the coffee-selling giant.


The logo is a throw-back to what the chain used when it first opened in Seattle more than 35 years ago.
The explanation for that initial log design is explained in the book "Pour Your Heart into It : How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time," written by company founder Howard Schultz:
"[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."
A reporter has contacted Starbucks for a comment about the Resistance's call for a boycott.

[Mosiah]

I would be more concerned with the scales on her legs. That's a real bad case of eczema if I ever saw one!

Starbucks should tell dem what to do with themselves. Whoever saw a mermaid in a bra!?!?!

[Gamma]

legs? what legs?

[Peter R]

A piece of tail?

pr

[Gamma]

i think that is more accurate....