Feminists upset over "Fat Princess" video game

[Meredith]

bah, it's just a game, playing GTA doesn't make me wanna kill people, Playing Fat Princess doesn't want to make me stuff my SO full of cake.

 

[Hermiod]

bah, it's just a game, playing GTA doesn't make me wanna kill people, Playing Fat Princess doesn't want to make me stuff my SO full of cake.

Unfortunately the kind of people who would use the word "heteronormative" (incorrectly) are also the kind of people who think you're too dumb to tell the difference.

 

[Arrqh]

EDIT: I did want to point out how the game can be sexist though...other media (like movies) is consumed by all types of people, but video games are PRIMARILY played by young males.

This is actually false. 40% of gamers are female and 20% of gamers are teenage boys.

This is true, the average age of gamers increases every year and the percentage of women playing games has grown a great deal in the last few years thanks mainly to Nintendo and the growing popularity of casual gaming and games on mobile phones.

Here's a source on the numbers. 65% of US households play games, the average age of a gamer is 35 and women over 18 represent 33% of gamers with males under 17 representing 18%.

So the "games are for kids" argument really doesn't fly. The assumption that only teenage boys play games is in many ways more representative of a stereotype then Fat Princess is... I don't think there's a stereotype that obese women like to be used as flags in CTF which is basically all the game is.

 

[ToddPence]

What DON'T feminists get upset about?

 

[TEH BABA]

funny know groups ever protested sex violence and language in fallout games you can pimp your own spouse or be a porn star.

 

[Hermiod]

^If you can do that then surely they'd be complaining about Second Life first ?

 

[TGTheodore]

What DON'T feminists get upset about?

Intelligence.

--Ted

 

[Sheep]

Pro or con, I can't believe anyone is just plain STUPID enough to create a game like this.

I'd say a few execs missed a few meetings, especially at the conceptual and naming levels.

--Ted

Not a gamer, eh? While the game's title is questionable, the game itself looks fun as hell.

You can bet no one would have a problem if this was "Fat Prince".

 

[Jim Steele]

As for the rest of you defending this game, how many of you are overweight women who get teased about their weight?

I'm an overweight man who has to put up with tonnes of shit about his weight, sees fat people lampooned (and sometimes even blamed for society's ills - bizarrely) in the media, and as far as I'm concerned the Feminist Crusaders are being fucking stupid.

The phrase "get a life" would seem appropriate (not to you, to them).

 

[Bob The Skutter]

As for the rest of you defending this game, how many of you are overweight women who get teased about their weight?

I'm an overweight man who has to put up with tonnes of shit about his weight, sees fat people lampooned (and sometimes even blamed for society's ills - bizarrely) in the media, and as far as I'm concerned the Feminist Crusaders are being fucking stupid.

The phrase "get a life" would seem appropriate (not to you, to them).

You, too?

 

[Arrqh]

To my extraordinary shock, Kotaku actually said something insightful on the subject.

So what's the alternative for the princess? Should she not be fat, because thin girls are cute and funny while fat ones are not? Would it have been better to make her a typical, idealized female? Or must we be so sensitive that we are no longer allowed to rescue the princess, as we have done in our fairy tales for centuries, at all?

Ultimately, though, wouldn't removing the fat girl, or the issue of obesity, from the game because they bring too many issues into play be precisely the wrong message to send to women?

 

[Aragorn]

Damn you! Now I'll have to scrap my "Hardbodied Supermodel Princess" game!

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Damn you! Now I'll have to scrap my "Hardbodied Supermodel Princess" game!

Maybe they'd approve of that?

 

[Meredith]

bah, it's just a game, playing GTA doesn't make me wanna kill people, Playing Fat Princess doesn't want to make me stuff my SO full of cake.

Unfortunately the kind of people who would use the word "heteronormative" (incorrectly) are also the kind of people who think you're too dumb to tell the difference.

And people like that seem to ignore the fact that by censoring such stuff is akin to removing the freedom of expression which if they didn't have they would not be able to stick their noses up at everyone in the first place and complain about the fat princess video game.

 

[melancholymecha]

that game is gonna be a hit with inflation fetishist...

 

[Gary Mitchell]

"You can't forget, it's a sumo culture, Ted. They pay by the pound over there"

 

[Jim Steele]

As for the rest of you defending this game, how many of you are overweight women who get teased about their weight?

I'm an overweight man who has to put up with tonnes of shit about his weight, sees fat people lampooned (and sometimes even blamed for society's ills - bizarrely) in the media, and as far as I'm concerned the Feminist Crusaders are being fucking stupid.

The phrase "get a life" would seem appropriate (not to you, to them).

You, too?

Yup, I really need to get one too but that's a whole other thread

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I'm an overweight man who has to put up with tonnes of shit about his weight, sees fat people lampooned (and sometimes even blamed for society's ills - bizarrely) in the media, and as far as I'm concerned the Feminist Crusaders are being fucking stupid.

The phrase "get a life" would seem appropriate (not to you, to them).

You, too?

Yup, I really need to get one too but that's a whole other thread

Maybe I should have just said "me, too."

 

[Holdfast]

Over at Shakesville, however, writer Melissa McEwan cuts to the chase, telling Sony she's "positively thrilled to see such unyielding dedication to creating a new generation of fat-hating, heteronormative ---holes."

Wow, she's so tetchy.

Someone buy her some chocolates.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Over at Shakesville, however, writer Melissa McEwan cuts to the chase, telling Sony she's "positively thrilled to see such unyielding dedication to creating a new generation of fat-hating, heteronormative ---holes."

Wow, she's so tetchy.

Someone buy her some chocolates.

Maybe take her for a meal, and give her a bunch of flowers too?