Posted on 05/17/2023 2:48:54 PM PDT by Morgana
A new Starbucks India campaign featuring a trans model has caused a stir among social media users worldwide.
The two-minute ad, titled “#ItStartsWithYourName,” depicts a Hindi-speaking family meeting at a Starbucks to reconcile a father’s strained relationship with his trans daughter. After brief tension, the man shows his acceptance of his daughter by ordering coffees for everyone under her new name, “Arpita.”
“For me, you are still my kid,” the dad says in the ad, translated to English in subtitles. “Only a letter has been added to your name.”
The ad has been viewed online millions of times since its release last week, and reactions to it have run the gamut from praise to staunch opposition. Many South Asians said the depiction hits close to home and is an important step forward for young Indians in the LGBTQ community.
“I cannot imagine being estranged from my children for any reason let alone for them being who they are, but I know not everyone is there yet,” one person tweeted. “This advert for Starbucks from India, still an incredibly conservative country, sends a powerful statement.”
But some in the U.S. and India lambasted Starbucks for going “woke,” even calling for a boycott of the company.
“Starbucks facing a backlash in India after going full Bud Light,” an Australia-based news podcast host tweeted, referencing the beer brand which recently collaborated with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney. “If saturating the market with a mediocre US coffee brand wasn’t bad enough, now they are bringing their woke corporate culture to the Sub-Continent.”
A spokesperson for Starbucks told NBC News that despite the backlash, the company will continue to support the trans community.
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Yeah, add a letter to its name and it is Armpita. Seems appropriate.
What is wrong with people?!
Parenting fail.
I wonder if the stud go a Lopitoffame yet.
Global dehumanization agenda
No surprise, Strarbuck’s has always been in the leftist sewer.
“#ItStartsWithYourName”
Great day for a double pun then. Attracts monarchs:
““Only a letter has been added to your name.””
No, it’s more than just that, bright boy. Your daughter has also been sterilized.
This is also India, does he also have to pay her (his) dowry when it gets married?
Funny thing is... they are probably trading off up to 50% support to appease what? 10% or less new gay customers?
The math is silly and does not make profitable sense. Why not just stay neutral? Why stick their necks out on purpose?
Boycott Starbucks and their greatly overpriced sugary coffees.
Starbucks has a great racket.
Get customers to pay 8 times the price of a cup of coffee that they can quickly make at home.
Mapco and Kwik-Stop make better coffee, and far cheaper.
It starts with calling mental illness: Mental Illness.
NBC “news” expect nothing but LBTG mob spin.
They’re not selling Coffee or Beer etc etc anymore
“Not sure why Starbucks has to cash in on this.”
Starbucks is and always has been very WOKE. (I just checked their stock price chart. They went from 76 to 106 in a year. I suppose that’s because their clientele is largely on board with their politics, on account of they’ve never hidden the wokeness.)
One Word: GLOBOHOMO
XD XD good point.
If I was her dad, I’d make her pay the dowry she just screwed me out of!
“So Arpit, you cut off your johnson, changed your name to Arpita, and ended the family blood line forever. Here’s a coffee.”
“Starbucks India ad starring trans model goes viral with mixed reactions.”
So in other words the great majority reacted negatively to this ad. NBC News putting a slight spin on the phrase “mixed reactions.”
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