Posted on 02/05/2016 3:02:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
Let’s start with when Starbucks opened up its location in Riyadh. The coffee siren is the face of Starbucks.
Her flowing locks of java love strike those brand affinity chords nationwide and across the pond, so why not in the Middle East?
Because boobies or some such.
The logo was considered a bit too randy for the locals, so Starbucks completely caved and came up with a falling star on the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
That story didn’t gain a lot of traction, but this more recent one is definitely approaching #PRFail territory.
Women have been officially “barred†from entering Starbucks. In fact, if you are female and thirsty for a cup of joe, “send in your driver.â€
According to Emirates 24/7, the nation’s religious police made this decision following a routine inspection revealed that the coffee shop’s “gender wall†— an actual wooden barrier intended to keep men and women separate — had collapsed.
So, this happened:
Let’s start with when Starbucks opened up its location in Riyadh. The coffee siren is the face of Starbucks.
Her flowing locks of java love strike those brand affinity chords nationwide and across the pond, so why not in the Middle East?
Because boobies or some such.
The logo was considered a bit too randy for the locals, so Starbucks completely caved and came up with a falling star on the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
That story didn’t gain a lot of traction, but this more recent one is definitely approaching #PRFail territory.
Women have been officially “barred†from entering Starbucks. In fact, if you are female and thirsty for a cup of joe, “send in your driver.â€
According to Emirates 24/7, the nation’s religious police made this decision following a routine inspection revealed that the coffee shop’s “gender wall†— an actual wooden barrier intended to keep men and women separate — had collapsed.
So, this happened:
Side-by-side, we have the misogynistic, neanderthal statement followed by the other one from Saudi Arabian Starbucks. (Yes, Howard Schultz, we see you.)
The notice, in Arabic as well as English, reads:
“On order by the Commission, please no entry for ladies, only send your driver to order. Thank you.†And now, for Starbucks official statement, in English — and from America:
Starbucks in Saudi Arabia adheres to the local customs by providing separate entrances for families as well as single people. All our stores provide equal amenities, service, menu, and seating to men, women and families. We are working as quickly as possible as we refurbish our Jarir store, so that we may again welcome all customers in accordance with local customs. In other words, if those dudes want to keep that up, it’s okay as long as they keep buying our coffee. Not good PR, people. Not good at all.
What were you doing there?
They have to go to Starbroads.
Sadly there is a way to tell the difference over there. If the person isn’t wearing shoes, most likely they’re a slave.
The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam
John Quincy Adams on Islam
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.
Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).
The lonely guys. LOL!
do you think the shallow left who supports starbucks could muster a one day coffee-out to show support for the Saudi women?....naw....too inconvenient...
The lines will move a lot faster.
How many people have stood behind a woman while she orders her no foam latte with half-whole milk, one quarter 1%, one quarter non-fat, extra hot, split quad shots with whip, 2 packets of splenda, 1 sugar in the raw, a touch of vanilla syrup and 3 short sprinkles of cinnamon?
". Homo in Saudi Arabia means they screw male goats."
same difference...even the smell.
Drives me nuts
Sam, it does seem reasonable to discriminate against females for you to not have to wait one minute longer for your coffee...NOT!
and to add, waiting behind a woman ordering coffee can’t possibly be worse than avoiding stepping on the spit that men seem to shoot everywhere on the sidewalk...now THAT is actual inconvenice...
But the men all have to hurry to get back to work!
Would Starkbucks open a store where racial segregation occurred? Nope.
lIberals are such hypocrites.
The ladies seem to want to primp, preen, posture and carry on and on and on and on while the guy with a deadline stews behind the 4 hipster chicks, each of whom wants some unbelievably intricate concoction.
Then again, there are the hipster dudes
Screw you.
I am a free American woman.
The pigs there believe my worth to be beneath animals.
They are bringing this to your doorstep completely unfettered.
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