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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
Tue May 7, 2013, 02:36 PM May 2013

Amazon.com: Remove "The Ex" shooting target = large-breasted woman who bleeds when shot

Sign the petition to Amazon.com. Immature, insensitive, stupid...people can have their toys to vent their hate and impotent rage about women but faciliators like Amazon should reap the reward..of loss of patronage and the push back from the rest of us.

A shooting target mannequin named the "The Ex," a large-breasted woman who bleeds when shot, is being sold on Amazon.com. It's manufactured by Zombie Industries, a company that was featured at the NRA convention last weekend.

Gun violence against women is a serious problem. But "The Ex" shooting target turns violence against women into a joke and promotes the idea that men should want to kill their ex-wives or ex-girlfriends. Zombie Industries has already had to pull a mannequin target that resembled President Obama, so they are definitely attracting media attention right now--and it's just the kind of bad press Amazon doesn't want.

If we all speak up about this horrible "Ex" target we can get Amazon to do the right thing and stop carrying this dangerous product. Can you sign the petition?
Your message to Amazon.com:

"Zombie Industries 'The Ex' shooting target--a large-breasted woman who bleeds when shot--promotes domestic violence and partner homicide and should not be sold on your website. Please remove this horrible product immediately."

http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/amazon_zombie_target

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Amazon.com: Remove "The Ex" shooting target = large-breasted woman who bleeds when shot (Original Post) Coyotl May 2013 OP
Done. n/t Wait Wut May 2013 #1
So you're saying we should not encourage violence as a solution to domestic problems? Deep13 May 2013 #2
Done, but the letter leaves out the Zombie Industries Paper Targets. NYC_SKP May 2013 #3
Done....and added the paper targets to my request. Gin May 2013 #4
K & R freshwest May 2013 #5
K&R marions ghost May 2013 #6
Pathetic... You just know the guys buying these (if any) have sad fucking lives... nomorenomore08 May 2013 #7
But I saw in "The Walking Dead" shawn703 May 2013 #8
I was watching MSNBC last night and apparently there is one like this of Obama. whathehell May 2013 #9
I can find a lot of references to the petition, but I can't find this item on Amazon. Stinky The Clown May 2013 #10
Mission accomplished, I guess. Nye Bevan May 2013 #11

Deep13

(39,154 posts)
2. So you're saying we should not encourage violence as a solution to domestic problems?
Tue May 7, 2013, 02:46 PM
May 2013

I suppose next you'll say that real men don't throw deadly violent hissy fits if they get dump, but suck it up, deal with the pain, and move on with their lives.

shawn703

(2,702 posts)
8. But I saw in "The Walking Dead"
Tue May 7, 2013, 05:13 PM
May 2013

Morgan couldn't shoot his wife when she was a zombie, and she eventually bit their son Duane. Couldn't a product like this have sufficiently desensitized Morgan to this situation so his son would still be alive? What will the rest of us do in the coming zombie apocalypse when our loved ones turn?

whathehell

(29,067 posts)
9. I was watching MSNBC last night and apparently there is one like this of Obama.
Tue May 7, 2013, 08:04 PM
May 2013

Hideous in both cases.

Stinky The Clown

(67,790 posts)
10. I can find a lot of references to the petition, but I can't find this item on Amazon.
Tue May 7, 2013, 08:46 PM
May 2013

I find other items by Zombie Industries, but not this one. Have you actually seen it on Amazon?

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