In other news, people are panicking that the hands on the new Starbucks cup might be lesbian.

[DetlefK]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/11/17/1716480/-World-seems-intent-on-assigning-gender-and-sexuality-to-Starbucks-holiday-cup

In 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]

1. Do lesbian hands look different from other hands?

I've never noticed that. In fact, hands are pretty generic, really.

[jumptheshadow]

10. Hahahaha

I used to check the fingernails back during my single days many moons ago.

[MineralMan]

12. Check them for what?

Dirt under the nails?

[MineralMan]

17. Uh, not funny.

Please don't post stuff like that here. Really.

[jumptheshadow]

24. I will delete the post

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.

[jumptheshadow]

26. I wonder if this was my first jury after all these years (nt)

[pangaia]

58. jeeze, Now I want to see your deleted post. LOL

OMG, maybe now I will get an alert..

[unblock]

18. the few lesbians i've discussed this with have a marked preference for short nails on their partners

[MineralMan]

19. Why were you discussing that with them?

I don't get it.

[unblock]

23. it was a very raunchy discussion

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]

25. Finger banging (I guess)

It hit me after looking at that pic for a minute.

[MineralMan]

27. Uff da!

I'm really not finding any of this subthread amusing. Not one bit.

[jumptheshadow]

29. Fair enough

It's been deleted. In the meantime, my partner and I are laughing.

[RKP5637]

33. ...

[Henry Krinkle]

30. Well, thats what you get for asking

[Act_of_Reparation]

51. Lighten up, Francis.

[tkmorris]

53. It's just sex MM

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]

63. May I just say

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]

59. LOL-

I could tell you a story about fingernails, but maybe we should go to the bar first

[MineralMan]

60. I can just imagine...

[cwydro]

64. Me either.

And I’m a gay woman.

Thank you MM.

Sometimes this place is unrecognizable.

[MineralMan]

66. Well, this subthread began because of a post that

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]

67. I saw that post.

And my thank you stands.

[jumptheshadow]

68. I admit the original meme was a little raunchy

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]

69. I'm always having a good day, really.

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]

28. Maybe they were fellow lesbians or good friends

Who were having a laugh.

[Kirk Lover]

2. Which hands are supposed to be the lesbians...I see two sets there.

This is so freaking stoopid it's just BEYOND.

[Cartoonist]

3. Nonsense

Only one of the hands is wearing bracelets.

[MattP]

4. Lesbian hands are different from normal hands?

My limp wrists give me away I hate that but Lesbian hands?

[CrispyQ]

9. I know, right?

[Initech]

5. I would file this under "Who gives a shit????".

[lame54]

6. It's just somebody who found Waldo

[Throck]

7. I hope they are.

Keep closed minded nit-wits out of the store.

[dalton99a]

8. Christian Taliban obsessing about sex

as usual

[lunasun]

11. we see holiday joy, gifts and hearts . Fox news folks see this....

All the hands look bigger that trump's

[Dr. Strange]

43. Or maybe...

Link to tweet

[Sneederbunk]

13. Looks like commie hands to me.

[MuseRider]

15. This makes me laugh

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]

16. I count 35 poca dots. Clearly lesbian.

[GeorgeGist]

21. The Franken freakout ...

would suggest that they are.

[gopiscrap]

22. why is it that a republican, a conservative or a fundy always has to find something

complain about? Why can't for once in their god damn lives just be happy?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. Because they're afraid someone else might be happy.

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” - H.L. Mencken

[gopiscrap]

34. well said

[RobinA]

44. They're Paranoid

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]

32. We can always count on the Starbucks Cup time of year

To give us a break from everything else

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

37. If they didn't have a Christmas-themed cup they'd get shit for that.

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]

46. Uhmm, I think we should start making suggestions to

Starbucks for next years Happy Holiday cup. A black baby Jesus. Lets just piss them fundies right off all proper like.

[klook]

54. And the Three Wise Women

bringing gold, frankincense, and a copy of the Qur’an.

[Doreen]

56. Next years cup is sounding better and better.

[crazycatlady]

50. Conservatives freaked out over a plain red cup

Starbucks can't win.

[Sailor65x1]

61. I remember that

It was crazy

[FarCenter]

35. Might be Trump's hand -- the thumb looks really short?

[RKP5637]

36. More for my WTF list! n/t

[CatMor]

38. When they spend their time complaining about a festive coffee cup

it's time for them to get a life. How petty and absurd they are.

[nocalflea]

39. Huh ?

"Sometimes a holiday cup is just a holiday cup."
Sigmund Freud

[petronius]

40. I have extremely low expectations when it comes to critical thinking and intelligence

from RWers, but this seems idiotic even from them. Got to think someone is trolling here...

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. One seems to have a large crystal or tag dangling from the wrist

Is that A Thing these days? It looks like it'd be really annoying.

[RobinA]

45. It's A Secret Code

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]

42. This makes me smile

[Quiet_Dem_Mom]

47. I am drinking out of one of those cups right now...

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]

48. I think I want to go buy one now and find a crowd of pissed off

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]

49. Having had lesbian friends ...

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]

52. Ah, the annual Starbucks cup kerfuffle - right on schedule

All part of the defense against our war on Christmas!

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[Thor_MN]

57. IKR? The annual snowflake whine - Starbuck's holiday cups aren't what we want!!!

If Starbuck's had plain red and green cups with no logo or image, the snowflakes would still complain.

[Bettie]

55. Geez Louise...

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]

62. Dammit

Now I want some coffee. DU plants an idea in my head AGAIN!

[LiberalFighter]

65. How do they know the hands don't belong to Trump?