Fat Princess (1 Viewer)

[JenFast]

I obviously have too much time on my hands but came across this this morning

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/feminists-cry-foul-over-fat-princess/1232315

 

[Carlow Punks!]

I obviously have too much time on my hands ...

you do

 

[JenFast]

 

[the strange guy]

That's hilarious.
A bunch of feminists are outraged at a game where you fatten up a princess so that she becomes harder for the enemy to carry off.

Never mind the fact that there are loads of games where you have to shoot men in the face.

Better not mention Super Mario Bros. which enforces gender roles by placing the player in control of a man
so that he can save a woman from a lizard king, eating magic mushrooms on his way.

You might as well be furious at Tetris because the only way to get rid of four lines in a row
is to use the most phallic object available.

If someone comes up with a 'Get Back To The Kitchen' simulator, then's the time to be outraged.

 

[nooleen]

that reminds me, i should spend the rest of the afternoon playing tetris. feminism aside, that game doesn't seem like it would be entertaining for very long. i'd rather spend the money on cake and get too fat for my sense of guilt to carry me to my office.

 

[the strange guy]

I found this on another site.

• Fat Princess - Enforcing gender expectations on physical appearance causing young girls to have eating disorders, low self-esteem, etc.
• Skinny Princess - Enforcing gender expectations on physical appearance causing young girls to have eating disorders, low self-esteem, etc.
• Beautiful Princess - Enforcing gender expectations on physical appearance causing young girls to have eating disorders, low self-esteem, etc.
• Ugly Princess - Enforcing gender expectations on physical appearance causing young girls to have eating disorders, low self-esteem, etc.

The only way to eliminate the issue is to remove the entire princess angle - which then, of course, changes the artistic intent of the game.

 

[nooleen]

Plain Princess with BMI in the Centre of the Recommended Range, of Unspecified Ethnicity

 

[D0njo]

I's all lose-lose these days

 

[the strange guy]

You could get a job as a consultant, Nooly.
After the revolution, like.

 

[nooleen]

i'll be far too drunk for that. no-one would listen to me anyway cos i don't look crust.

 

[JenFast]

 

[Big d(A)ddy G]

i'm just amused by the fact that there's feminist gaming sites

 

[JenFast]

i'm just amused by the fact that there's feminist gaming sites

it was just up next to where ya sign in for yer mail on yahoo like a news bulletin

 

[Corm]

The revolution definitely won't come out of crust. Too busy studding jackets and watching everyone else and trying to score sexy crrrröst vixens. More likely it'll be a spiralling revolution ever inwards until we're all Nathan Barley. Or else humorless drone-like androgynous automatons.

 

[JenFast]

well...well i...well i never

 

[DeAd_KeV]

"Feminists cry foul over Fat Princess"


i must cry foul more often

 

[therealjohnny]

fantastic

 

[Gambra]

http://www.lesbiangamers.typepad.com/lesbian_gamers/biggest-dicks-in-gaming.html

Essential reading

 

[DeAd_KeV]

'top gaming jigglies'

ha

 

[nooleen]

even though i have it on good authority that i'm a trouser-wearing lesbian, i'm not into gaming, and now that i've learned there are no massive heaving hard-ons to rival the breasts of lara croft, i'm deeply unlikely to ever take it up.