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).
This misogynistic 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 fueling 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’.
Well it's hard to argue against all that now isn't it?
It is hard to imagine that Target would comply with this request, but it is worth noting that the petition is only 134 signatures shy of reaching its goal of 25,000 as I write this.
So that tells us something.
And I do so enjoy tilting at windmills sometimes.
I hope this goes through.
ReplyDeleteI've said it before and I'll reiterate:
ReplyDeleteI can't believe any THINKING woman that has actually READ the Bible would subscribe to any of the religions that come from it: Judaism, Christianity, Islam...
I don't sign Change.org petitions because they want your street address... and I honestly don't this petition is going to do any good because Target is a very mainstream outfit that wouldn't want to even appear to be anti-bible -- even if it gets a petition signed by a million people. But I agree with the sentiment of the petition 100%.
ReplyDeleteWhat! I don't like this at all. This is BOOK BANNING. ALL books (including the bible) should be accessible to anyone who wants to buy them.
ReplyDeleteIf one does not want to buy any book (including the bible), they don't have to buy it, but to try to ban it from a store, is ridiuclous. Would they ban science books from stores? So overbearing.
Next will they try to ban the bible from hotels, and libraries next. When will the come into homes and confiscate our bibles.
This is disgusting.
The bible book banners are trying to tell others what they can and cannot read.
Target will NEVER go along with BS.
I agree with you, 6:45, about book banning. Far better for women's rights organizations (Pro-Choice, Planned Parenthood, anti-rape groups etc.) to use those selected passages in answer to the reich-wingers and tealibangelicals who want to do away with any laws allowing women equal rights as well as the right to manage their own bodies.
DeleteI agree 6:45am
DeleteWe can lead people to knowledge and enlightenment but we cannot force them to learn and put down their stone-age ways, however we should not employ the same tactics used by the small-minded, i.e. book banning and withholding of that which we don't agree with.
We can hope at some point that these people come to terms with reality and stop using their religion as a bludgeon, until then we keep a close eye on them and are prepared to act when they overstep their boundaries. That is the civilized way.
Book banning isn't cool with me, by anyone anywhere.
DeleteI am a Liberal Democrat, I am also a follower of Christ, a child of God.
ReplyDeleteI read my bible. I don't tell others to read the bible, and I'll be darned if I will let someone tell me NOT to read the bible.
Which part promoting abuse of women is your favorite?
DeleteWho is telling you you can't read it?
DeleteMust See: A Look Inside the Twisted, Racist, and Misogynistic World of the Accelerated Christian Education Program
ReplyDeleteThe Accelerated Christian Education program (ACE) is an example of the sort of subtle cancer that’s slowly eating away at our education system.The program began in Texas back in the 1970s; it currently claims to have books distributed across 6,000 schools in 140 countries. Since ACE operates within private schools, the workbooks are published internally, and the vast majority of people have no clue what’s being taught. There are no ACE books in public libraries, and they’ve been ignored by the mainstream media, leaving them to operate as a force for the last 40 years without anything resembling scrutiny.
Just in case you forgot where you were living, most ACE schools are the beneficiaries of various voucher programs in the United States and in the United Kingdom, despite these schools lack teachers in the conventional sense and having a backwards notion of education. Rather, students are set inside of cubicles, and complete workbooks (called PACEs), separately and in silence.
And about the workbooks; they’re full of lies. They’re little better than propaganda tools, teaching children that solar fusion is a myth and that the Second Law of Thermodynamics disproves evolution. It teaches children that the scientific method begins with throwing out all reasoning and trusting God, and have even been condemned by Bob Jones University (you know, the place that banned interracial dating because the 1960s scared them).
The main vehicle of indoctrination is the cartoon strips that the PACEs use. These strips echo the very best of Jack Chick; to call them “repugnant” would be akin to saying it’s “sort of unpleasant” on Mercury. Just what do these propaganda tools peppering the books show?
Nothing good. It’s time to get out the thinking caps, class, so we can study the Three R’s — Racism, Right-wingers, and Religion.
http://aattp.org/must-see-a-look-inside-the-twisted-racist-and-misogynistic-world-of-the-accelerated-christian-education-program/
They martyr themselves with their ignorance.
DeleteIt's a conspiracy I tell you! If someone wants this book, they're going to buy it, so I'd rather see Target get the profits than a small, family owned christian book store.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I'm not a fan of censorship, no one's forcing me to buy the book OR shop stores where it's offered. So fill the shelves with the fifty shades series, books on atheism and any and all holy books, I'm sure no one would be offended.
Jesus would stand up indomitably for the man who said he could not breathe.
ReplyDeleteJust sayin'. Read your Bible.