Sony's Fat Princess Causing Controversy

I used to engage feminist horse-hockey every time I saw it, pointing out the obvious flaws in the hypocritical dogma and rhetoric, completely ignoring the social more against men calling shenanigans on what are clearly, obviously contrived excuses to get riled up about... well, anything.

A lot of the criticisms that feminists have are genuine, but largely they're not new and they tend to be works in progress.

But over the last 15 years or so I've grown bored with it. The conversation is always the same...  usually leading to me being called names and attacked personally. So... I'm bored with it, it's never different and as a result I no longer am surprised by this kind of idiocy. The reality is that if you put a female character in a game somewhere some feminist (in a frenzied attempt to remain relevant and keep their dead religion alive at all costs) will take exception. She's too fat, she's too quiet, she's too bitchy, she's too skinny, she's... whatever. But if there are no female characters in the game then it's merely castigation for that too, leading into another rant about how women are under-represented in the industry.

I'm at the point now where I'm fairly certain I've heard it all. Every argument, every specious statistic, every ridiculous claim of systemic descrimination against women, all of it. I know the counter-argument to every one and I know the counter-counter argument.

I'm bored... I'm bored of this Hallmark Cards equivalent of human rights movement. Seriously... feminists... find something worthwhile to do with your time. You are more than the cause you claim to support.

The fun part is the two bloggers closed their comments box. I know there were too many trolls, but some trolls were actually aporting some opinions. They were sarcastic, but I think sarcasm is valid on Internet.

Both bloggers were more busy looking for attention.

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I think the problem is that they're lacking a grasp on the game mechanics.  It's the other team (ie. the bad guys) who're fattening up the princess.  One supposes that upon rescuing their royalty, the winners can hook her up to some liposuction to bring her back to a healthy weight.  (But not overly skinny, lest she become a Barbie-styled target for objectification!)

Having tabbed through what few screenshots there are, I don't see anything truly controversial yet -- but if the game ends up glorifying the fat aspect, then yeah, I could see problems with that.  Bad enough that the only current role models for women in videogames are shirt-stuffers like Tifa Lockheart or Lara Croft.  When is "normal" going to make a comeback?

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The Mammon Industry

Here's some food for thought:

What if the game was 'Fat Prince,' where all the soldiers are female, and the objective to rescue the kidnapped prince, who's been fattened up by the other side, also comprised entirely of female soldiers.

Complete gender reversal of the roles.  I'm sure the hard core psycho feminists would say that game is insulting to women because it puts them in a subservient role to a male figure. ("Bring me more food!"  "Save me!")

Debating with psycho feminists is like trying to debate with buffalo stampede.  Doesn't matter how good your points are, you're still going to get run over.

You know what this reminds me of? I'm sure that a lot of people here have seen the movie "Wall-E" Pixar's latest film. And I think most will agree it's an amazeing story, very heartwarming and tearjerking in parts. A complety sublime movie, and one that deserves to be reconized for the piece of art that it is. You know what I've been hearing around the webboards I frequent? Which, by the way, are mainly for people who like larger girls and whatnot? How the movie makes fun of fat people. About how it's "Size Negetave" and now I won't take my kids to go see it, because I don't want them exposed to that kinda Hollywood propaganda. It's this kinda thing, where everyone is obsessed that "I am being OPRESSED!" that really annoys me. Everything is not about you, They were not trying to make a negative game, heck, the whole POINT is to SAVE the fat princess, despite what the good Miss McEwan said in her profanity filled blogpost.

I just don't understand people who take EVERYthing as a personal caculated attack on them. Lighten up I say. You are not that important.

If you cannot best a man in argument, all is not lost. You can still call him vile names.

I can see why they'd be upset, but I disagree with them.  I'm a fat female gamer.  I have no qualms saying such.  This looks like a game I'd enjoy - it's meant to be silly and fun; it's not meant to intentionally or maliciously bash fat women.  I can see how it can be seen that way, but I don't think that's what the game is trying to do.  (I feel a lot of times, "artistic" or "developers'" intent can get lost in a game, and in cases like this, it's important to see where they're coming from.)

Also saying "a girl made it" does not help your argument, Mr. Green.  That's like saying, "HEY I CAN MAKE FUN OF GAY PEOPLE CUZ MY BEST FRIEND'S GAAAAAY".  Doesn't work, and it's not cool.

I also believe that feminism should be about equality with men - not about preaching how women are superior to men.  However, I do believe that both genders should be more understanding and accepting of each other.  Woman-bashing (and male-bashing) is definitely not okay.