‘Zombie Awareness Month’ Shouldn’t Be An Occasion For Spreading Hate
You might think that the ZRC would be happy that this has apparently been declared ‘Zombie Awareness Month’. After all, Zombies do need more awareness – of their plight in society, their legal disenfranchisement, of the media’s endless campaign of misinformation against them and of the need for reform.
Sadly, however, that is precisely the opposite of the point here:
May is Zombie Awareness Month! Every day this month ZRS is giving away a free signed copy of the zombie children’s book That’s Not Your Mommy. 31 copies in 31 days to mark this important occasion. Mommy is a cautionary tale that teaches kids how to recognize a zombie outbreak in its earliest stage.
How to recognize… a zombie ‘outbreak’?
And what’s this about a book?
Product Description
CHARMING ILLUSTRATIONS BRING TO LIFE A GHOULISHLY FUN STORYIn the ongoing effort to warn an unprepared world of the rising danger from zombie attacks, one vulnerable group has been left out: small children. That’s Not Your Mommy Anymore is an inviting and entertaining story that helps early readers understand that a mom with fresh brain casserole on her mind probably isn’t their mommy anymore.
Not just for kids, adult readers are sure to love this hilarious parody as much as the real childrens books they enjoyed in years past.
I’m sorry, but this is just heinous, intentional Anti-Zombie indoctrination of children. That’s absolutely unacceptable; teaching children to *hate*? To hate Zombies? Even their own parents, should one happen to die and come back as one of the Differently Animated?
This is a new low. Incitement of violence against Differently Animated parents. What will the bigots at the ‘Zombie Research Society’ think of next? I shudder to think.
All that plus a month-long series of giveaways and contests to further stoke the fires of malice and discriminatory violence, domestic terrorism even.
Oh yes, and they have other merchandise to sell you on your way to the pogrom as well:
May is Zombie Awareness Month!
Support Zombie Awareness Month by wearing a gray ribbon or button to signify the undead shadows that lurk behind our modern light of day.
From May 1 through May 31, concerned citizens take this small step to acknowledge the coming danger. So spread the word!!!
As the great Sir Terry Pratchett wrote:
‘Multiple exclamation marks,’ he went on, shaking his head, ‘are a sure sign of a diseased mind.’
So right off the bat you know we’re dealing with a gaggle of deranged maniacs over at the ZRS. I suppose that explains their obvious paranoia, the monstrous fear that leads them to scapegoat against the looming, imminent (though of course imaginary) menace of the peaceable Zombie population.
Naturally The Zombie Rights Campaign can’t take this lying down. First, on the basis of that cover and description alone we can grant their hateful book a provisional Living Supremacist rating:
Second we can condemn in no uncertain terms this entire ‘Zombie Awareness Month’ for the sham that it is. If people want to be more aware of Zombies, wearing a grey ribbon and ignoring the positive contributions of the Differently Animated to society, their participation in the political process and their work in art and culture? That’s no way to go about it.
The Zombie Research Society should be completely and utterly ashamed.
P.S.
Although it would be beneath our long-suffering Undead clients’ dignity to point this out, I’ll admit, being a bit of a spiteful sort myself, to some small amusement at this detail from the ZRS blog:
ZOMBIE AWARNESS MONTH GIVEAWAY
05/01/2011
Yes, that AWARNESS is something we all need to.. be aware of. Whatever you do, don’t turn your back on an ‘awarness’, and a Zombie one?
Might as well crawl under the covers and never come out again; it’s too terrifying for words.
*snicker*
Perhaps the Spellingpocalypse snuck up on the ZRS staff as they busily stockpiled canned goods for their eagerly anticipated End Times festivities.
About The Author
Can we still wear a gray ribbon in support of ‘Zombie Appreciation Month,’ (and if someone asks tell them it’s for ‘Zombie Appreciation’) or is that just a ‘Zombie Awareness Month’ thing?
I think that it should most definitely be Zombie Appreciation, and I will twist it around and make my own specialized ribbon for Zombie Appreciation. I am disgusted that people are turning towards prejudice when it comes to the Undead. I have a serious appreciation for the lifestyle. :]
The ZRC fully supports co-opting the ZRS’ faux holiday and making it a true celebration of the Differently Animated, and commends you both for your empathy and compasison for the Undead.