

End "The Girl Store" and the Selling of Indian Girls


End "The Girl Store" and the Selling of Indian Girls
The Issue
"The Girl Store" is a website in which buyers can "buy a girl...her life back" that is focused on raising money for girls education in India through a Western savior trope. The girls featured on the website are all priced for you to buy. The rhetoric of the site is pornographic, saying that the girls are "100% genuine" and that buyers can "experience the sensation of buying a girl" while the girls are portrayed in highly sexualized ways. Further, commodifying a child or a girl is not an okay fundraising strategy, especially as it employs the rhetoric of human trafficking to promote girls education. This campaign defeats the purpose and perpetuates a relationship of immense power and authority between the West and India. Finally, this campaign further commodifies, sexualizes, and exploits the girls it claims to be saving.

The Issue
"The Girl Store" is a website in which buyers can "buy a girl...her life back" that is focused on raising money for girls education in India through a Western savior trope. The girls featured on the website are all priced for you to buy. The rhetoric of the site is pornographic, saying that the girls are "100% genuine" and that buyers can "experience the sensation of buying a girl" while the girls are portrayed in highly sexualized ways. Further, commodifying a child or a girl is not an okay fundraising strategy, especially as it employs the rhetoric of human trafficking to promote girls education. This campaign defeats the purpose and perpetuates a relationship of immense power and authority between the West and India. Finally, this campaign further commodifies, sexualizes, and exploits the girls it claims to be saving.

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Petition created on October 7, 2011