Withdraw The Holy Bible – this sickening book encourages readers to commit sexual violence and kill women
It's a book that encourages readers to murder women for entertainment. The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get 'god' points – and now Target are stocking it and promoting it for your Xmas stocking.
This is The Holy Bible. This book means that after various sex acts, readers are given options to kill women by stoning her unconscious, Setting them on fire, cutting off their hands, and killing their children!
One of many fan passages on In The Holy Bible depicts woman being set alight for having sex "And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire." (Leviticus 21:9).
Thismisogynistic book literally makes a game of bashing, killing and horrific violence against women. It also links sexual arousal and violence.
Just knowing that women are being portrayed as deserving to be sexually used by men and potentially murdered for sport and pleasure – to see this violence turned into a form of entertainments is sickening and causes us great pain and harm.
This book spreads the idea that certain women exist as scapegoats for male violence. It shows hatred and contempt for women in the sex industry and puts them at greater risk. Women in the industry are 40 times more likely to be murdered by a man than any other group of women.
Books like this are grooming yet another generation of boys to tolerate violence against women. It is fuelling the epidemic of violence experienced by so many girls and women in Australia - and globally.
Target, you pride yourself on being a family company, caring for local communities, and have a strong ethical sourcing policy. How can you do this while contributing to hostile and callous attitudes toward victims of violence and, more broadly, to all women?
Please put ethics before profits and make a strong statement that you do not condone sexual violence, sexual exploitation or the abuse of women as ‘entertainment’.
Wow over 40,000 signed!
The people that petitioned to have this game pulled from target lied about the content of the game. At no point in the game is the player encouraged "to murder women for entertainment." You do not get "health points for committing sexual violence against women or abusing them" It was a straight out lie that pandered to concerned parents who would rather have something censored than take responsibility when parenting. I ask the question would a parent allow a child to watch an R rated porn film? I should hope not. It's a matter of responsibility.
With that said GTA V is a very violent adult game and I don't think children should be playing it. But you have to ask the questions how and why these children are getting a hold of the game and I believe there are two reasons.
The first is bad parenting, The game is rated R18+ yet just the other day I saw a father buy this game for his son at target and I believe this is very irresponsible. Just because it's a video game does not mean it's for ok for children to play it and that is clearly stated on the cover of the game.
The second is marketing. Here is a picture of a Target catalogue http://i.imgur.com/gQVDkiv.png as you can see Target have advertised GTAV in the children’s section of the catalogue alongside Pepper Pig and Barbie doll toys. So it's obvious that they are marketing the game to children which is also irresponsible.
In conclusion I think the problem lies with parents and marketing managers. Not with game developers.
My choice to use the Bible to satirise the original petition was to highlight their sensationalism.
As proven in the passage I quoted from the Bible "And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire." (Leviticus 21:9); the Bible actually does encourage violence against women and it is taught to children in schools.
So I believe my petition highlights a double standard in Australian censorship and begs the question where do we draw the line? Should all bibles be removed from schools as well?
It's a tough question that should be left up to the Australian people to decide rather than a dishonest and international petition of a small minority. The game had been rated and passed by the censorship board already and it had been made available for over a year before this petition was started so I believe it should stay that way.
I do not want to live in a puritan society where everyone is told how to think and behave by a small minority of disgruntled people especially those that are willing to deceive to get their own way.Read more