Gaia Regrets Allowing Sony Management To Breathe Her Oxygen And Drink Her Water…

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Every so often, the patriarchs have to drop their drawers and fondle their agendas out in the open for everyone to see. There is SO much wrong on SO MANY levels with this, that it is hard to know where to begin to start ripping this thing to shreds. If what you see above does not make you boycott Sony as of yesterday, well, just check out the article excerpt from the Daily Mail below and hold onto your lunch…

Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game.

The corpse of the decapitated animal was the centrepiece of a party to celebrate the launch of the God Of War II game for the company’s PlayStation 2 console.

Guests at the event were even invited to reach inside the goat’s still-warm carcass to eat offal from its stomach.

Sickening images of the party have appeared in the company’s official PlayStation magazine – but after being contacted by The Mail on Sunday, Sony issued an apology for the gruesome stunt and promised to recall the entire print run.

Critics condemned the entertainment giant, which produces scores of Hollywood blockbusters each year, for its “blood lust” and said the grotesque “sacrifice” highlighted increasing concerns over the content of video games and the lengths to which the industry will go to exploit youngsters.

At the event, guests competed to see who could eat the most offal – procured elsewhere and intended to resemble the goat’s intestines – from its stomach.

They also threw knives at targets and pulled live snakes from a pit with their bare hands.

Topless girls added to the louche atmosphere by dipping grapes into guests’ mouths, while a male model portraying Kratos, the game’s warrior hero, handed out garlands.

The International Fund for Animal Welfare said it was “outrageous” that the animal’s death had been used “to sell a few computer games”.

The rest of the article can be found on the Daily Mail site here:

Gaia promptly issued the following statement through several of Her Oracles late today:

‘Gaia deeply regrets allowing the management and publicity sleazebags at Sony living space on the surface of the planet. They should be underground with the rest of the wormy-type things at the bottom of the foodchain, sustaining the sentient Awareness of this world that is three or more steps above them, such as moles, badgers, meerkats, frogs and birds. The Mother of All is looking into the speedy retirement and removal of the above-mentioned offenders via possible sudden heart-attack and/or fatal brain-tumors, and has flagged their energy-forms for severe demotion at their next opportunity for reincarnation, which will not be anytime soon. Additionally, She is requesting all Priestesses and other evolved Awarenesses currently incarnated here to immediately boycott Sony, as She does not find Women reduced to red-breasted robo-tits smarming joystick-jerking male primates with servile grape-feeding and drinks over the bloody remains of a freshly-gutted goat even remotely amusing.’

If you are able to keep from vomiting, please feel free to post a comment in support of Gaia and all abused lifeforms injured/killed in the above syphilitic-brained publicity-stunt. And to all those people who have always had a sneaking suspicion that corporate patriarchy is actively promoting violent, antisocial behavior by any means possible– well spotted! After this, there can be no doubt whatsoever that there is an organized sociopathic amorality hard at work promoting its deranged agenda under the guise of ‘entertainment’.

12 Responses to “Gaia Regrets Allowing Sony Management To Breathe Her Oxygen And Drink Her Water…”

  1. chasingmoksha Says:

    Corporations are pure psychopaths.

  2. akkarri Says:

    It flat-out amazed me that they actually thought that no one would pay them much attention, and would accept this as ‘just plain old advertising’. There really should be no question in people’s minds now just what the real agenda is with regard to vid-game violence (the dead goat) and targeted market (bare breasts painted red serving drinks and grapes), and it should be equally clear that the purveyers of this swill will stoop to any depth to sell an extremely harmful product. There will be glaciers on the surface of the sun before I buy another Sony product.

  3. Branjor Says:

    This makes me so SICK. The poor innocent goat!

    Gaia has my FULL support in the demotion of these scumballs to WORMS for the sustenance of higher life forms.

    Go Gaia! Go Akkari!

    I will never buy anything Sony again.

  4. Johanna Says:

    Oh my freaking god, isn’t this illegal?! I thought movies and such could only fake injury to animals.

    I’m sick.

    Yea, what Sony won’t do to make a profit. I’m done with them.

  5. akkarri Says:

    The full article at Daily Mail said that this little puke-fest was held in Athens, with the flood-lit Parthenon as a backdrop. I don’t know what Greek law has to say about animal cruelty, but Sony advertising staff may have been looking to partially skirt any laws in place by having people eating raw bits of goat, etc., so they could claim it was food provided for the press.

    In my opinion, the possible ‘deniability-because-it-was-part-of-the-menu’ angle makes me think that this was well thought out and approved by corporate big-wigs. Sony is now supposedly ‘investigating inappropriate actions on the part of advertising subcontractors’, which is basically nothing but standard corporate-speak for ‘we were fully on-board with the decapitated and bleeding goat carcass, but now that people are pissed off, we need to save face and blame somebody else’. The only reason that they are doing this now, is because the publicity backfired and created a huge flap in Britain. People are asking questions about the content of a lot of Sony products, and the possibility of banning certain vid-games in Britain has been raised again. I don’t think Sony wants the upset to spread to the U.S., hence the finger-pointing which does not fool anybody with more than two brain-cells to bang together.

    If no one had raised an eyebrow about this, you can bet that Sony would have probably done more of this kind of thing to launch the game elsewhere, but now they most likely won’t.

    All I can say is, sorry, Sony brass, but you-all do NOT get a ‘get out of jail free’ card on this one! You are peddling ultra-violent vid-games with ultra-violent advertising, and the content of the crap you sell shows that you are already quite comfortable with injury and death as entertainment, as long as you get your money out of it. The fact that you are also ready and willing to couple a dismembered goat with topless women whose breasts have been painted red, and who are feeding male reporters grapes in a kind of pseudo-slave act shows CLEARLY that Sony gives the ‘knowing nudge-and-wink’ not just to violence, but to porn as well.

    This is technicolor-baboon-butt antisocial maleness at its worst, and I do not intend to support it fiscally in any way, shape or form. I think people ought to reduce a bunch of Sony products to rubble and mail the wreckage to Sony corporate headquarters with a note saying that because of their love of wanton destruction and havoc (as per their own video games), they should not mind the public trashing Sony products wherever they are found, as well as gutting the company’s bottom line with a boycott. If there is a way to send the junk back to them postage-due, that would be even better.

    May Gaia strip these boors of every last penny they have made pimping hatred and bodily harm to the children of this planet!

  6. chasingmoksha Says:

    I don’t think Sony has anything to worry about when it comes to America. America typically sides with the capitalists. I checked around my house for sony, and we have a few items. It makes me sad. Just like my innocent pair of reading glasses are Dolce & Gabbana, a brand I knew nothing about, they were simply pretty and did the job. Then a month or two later, well pass the time that I could exchange them, I found out that Dolce & Gabbana said all the talk about expecting models to be 80 lbs was just coming from a bunch of backward thinkers.

  7. akkarri Says:

    No one can know everything about every company they buy stuff from. If somebody I know happens to have a couple of Sony products in their house, I’m not going to throw a fit. I’d just tell them about this incident and suggest they join me in not buying anything else from them in the future. It’s what a person does *after* they find out about bilge like this that counts. What I’d really love to see trashed are Sony Playstations and vid-games, rather than telephone answering machines or what-have-you.

    Also, I don’t hold Sony rank-and-file employees responsible for this. It’s the company’s management that decides what Sony produces and how it is made and marketed. That’s why I horse-laugh over that ‘it’s not us, it’s our advertising subcontractors’ BS. I don’t care what company it is, management at a very high level ALWAYS signs off on advertising, because it involves company image and marketing strategy/success. Therefore, it is a given that they had meetings about this very idea in a big boardroom somewhere, and Sony execs gave it the thumbs-up.

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  9. BrevisMus Says:

    Hi - I came here via the Carnival :)

    I was absolutely shocked to read about this - thanks for bringing it to everyone’s attention. Another company for the boycott list.

    I’m also ticked off by the Daily Mail (although I’m not surprised) & their focus on the fact that the only thing wrong with the event was the dead goat (even going as far as pixellating it). Yet the naked women? Oh, they’re fine - everyone can see them. GRRRRR! (I ranted about this on my own blog so as to not take up too much ‘anger space’ on yours!).

  10. akkarri Says:

    Yeah, BrevisMus, I hear you!

    There is just SO much wrong on SO many levels with the advertising, that it’s kinda hard to pick a place to start deconstructing it. I mean, with such a smorgasbord of depravity laid out in plain sight and with no excuses, where and with what does one start?

    For me, it was a toss-up between slaughtering an animal solely for advertising ‘effect’, and the bare-breasted slave-Women. I’m thinking that the red paint on the bare breasts of said Women was probably supposed to stand in for goat’s blood, which ties in the whole Women-as-so-much-meat porn angle, etc.

    The other thing that pissed me off royally was Sony execs looking to lay off the blame on ‘advertising subcontractors’ as if they had no idea stuff like this was going on in the corporate name. So not only do they insult us with disgusting, morally bankrupt advertising, they insult us a second time with their protestations of innocence. Since I have way more than three functioning brain-cells I am not fooled…

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  12. akkarri Says:

    To SOB…

    In a word, YES. And besides showing some backbone by not being a ‘consumer on autopilot’, you also need to sit your butt down and write two letters. The first one is to Sony, telling them why you will no longer buy your favorite music from them, and the second one needs to go to the Indigo Girls, informing the group that although you like their music, you will not be buying any more of it until they ditch the Sony label. Life is made up of choices, and the Indigo Girls chose Sony, probably due to being offered wads of cash to do so. Of course, if you like being a corporate-compliant amoral git, by all means keep buying those CDs…

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