Friday, December 5, 2014
ESQUIRE/GTA V
The video gaming community of Australia is an uproar after Target Australia decided to pulled GTA V from its shelves citing depictions of sexual violence and misogyny.
But what’s really happening on the tiny island of Australia boils down to a war of petitions, on the one hand you have the crusaders who want GTA V removed from the shelves, life, society, everywhere. And on the other hand you have the much more clever video gaming community firing back at Target Australia with a petition to change their ‘violent name and aggressive logo’.
This petition is currently up to nearly 50,000 signatures, and it calls for the removal of GTA V from the shelves of Target Australia:
Target: Withdraw Grand Theft Auto 5 – this sickening game encourages players to commit sexual violence and kill womenIt’s a game that encourages players to murder women for entertainment. The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get ‘health’ points – and now Target are stocking it and promoting it for your Xmas stocking.This is Grand Theft Auto 5. This game means that after various sex acts, players are given options to kill women by punching her unconscious, killing with a machete, bat or guns to get their money returned.Please Target – we appeal to you as women survivors of violence, including women who experienced violence in the sex industry, to immediately withdraw Grand Theft Auto V from sale.
It goes on to use this video as a reason why GTA V should be pulled from shelves:
