Grand Theft Auto V pulled from Australian Targets and K-Marts

The pulling of Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V for short) from Targets and Kmarts in Australia occurred in December of 2014 when a petition signed by 40,000 people denounced the game for "promoting violence against women."

Despite Target and K-Mart pulling the game in Australia, fans of the GTA franchise as well as other gamers have called out the action because of the inaccuracy of the petition due to the fact that the GTA franchise does not promote violence against women, but rather violence against both genders and the main questline has more violence against men than it does women. So thus, despite it being a violent game, it did not encourage misogyny and it was made clear that the petitioners had not even played the game.

Luckily, even with Target and Kmart pulling the game, it is still possible to get the game in other areas of Australia. However, Kmart stopped selling video games entirely not long after.