I...may have gone off on a bit of a tangent. My apologies.

While we're at it, can we agree that when it's someone's birthday, his/her brother/sister doesn't need to get a gift, too?

This sounds right up there with grading with purple ink and participation trophies.

Aww, but half the fun of giving a gift is watching them open it.

I would never recommend buying from a pet store.

Basically: getting a dog at 8 weeks gives you the best opportunity to train it and shape its behavior while its mind is fresh. If you get a dog that's, for example, a year old and has a history of abuse or neglect, that abuse could have been endured during the entire critical period, rather than just half of it, and…

I just posted similar to this from the perspective of the volunteer (I volunteer at a sanctuary - we have a couple of Mal's btw, awesome dogs, but very powerful when they want to go play with the Alpaca herd at the sanctuary!).

So you think it's asking far too much of these people to know what a piece of media actually contains before getting huffy and trying to get it banned from stores? This kind of ignorance you're supposing of these folks is EXACTLY the sort of thing that needs to be pushed back against.

At the very least if they were…

How is it NOT an example of feminists censoring a game? They started the petition to ban it in the first place.

Target may have made a mistake since giving in on this will open them up to further pressure to quit selling all sorts of things. GI Joes for promoting militarism and Barbie for promoting the color pink when its clearly hideous. It would've been better to keep their mouths shut for the bottom line too. But if they…

The only issue with that line of logic is where does it stop? Target pulls the game. Then other stores start pulling it. Then, due to lose revenue, Rock Star patches anything that might be considered inappropriate or offensive out of the game. It's a slippery slope where entertainment can end up getting censored.

The reason people are picking on the thing they're specifically complaining about is BECAUSE they are /specifically/ complaining about it. In light of all the other violence that goes on in the series it smacks of a glaring double-standard that this is the only thing they've got enough problems with to try to get this…

apparently violence toward men, including tortuing a man (which isn't optional) stamping on a guy's head (not optional) while telling said person how he's going to get raped is perfectly ok as opposed to picking up prostitutes and killing them (which is totally optional)

I feel that, given the massive amount of violence inflicted on people in the GTA games overall, specific acts of "Sexual Violence" toward women are largely a non-issue in comparison.

You are right, this isn't an example of evil feminists. This is an example of stupid feminists without much logical thinking skills. All this really shows is that there are at least 41,000 idiots in Australia.

Still absolutely reeks of double standard. You don't molest or sexually assault anybody in that game to begin with, and trust, you will slaughter a million men for sure.

You're right, but it doesn't disregard the fact that AU has the right to ban it entirely, which is still the root issue. It only takes a publicity stunt like this to make that happen. In most countries, like AU, an opinion can turn into law within months.

And people have the right to criticize them. It's how it works.

That's a really shoddy excuse for censorship on a massive commercial level.

why is the violence towards women more important than the violence towards the men in this game. Feminists seriously suck, they unfairly chastize men and looove the attention of being a victim without having anything bad actually happen to them IE a fucking fictional video game with no real victims