Yes, that’s right. There is a game for Playstation 3 called “Fat Princess.” Its an MMORPG, but the story part revolves around rescuing a Princess from an enemy castle. Okay, fine. Problem is that the enemy has been feeding her magical cake, which causes her to gain TONS of weight, and makes her more difficult to rescue (because, of course, she can’t just walk out alongside you – you have to pick her up and carry her).
I know I shouldn’t be surprised, considering that Playstation is of Japan, the country that brought us the ‘Metabo’ craze. But still, wtf?
On the one hand, its nice to see a princess who isn’t stick-thin represented in any media. On the other, however, this is a princess character who was thin to begin with, then gained a lot of weight by overeating (thanks to the BAD guys), and is relatively useless other than getting kidnapped. I haven’t played the game, but it certainly doesn’t look like she’s a player character option. She might as well be an object for all she can do. A very heavy one, apparently.
Why can’t we have SOMETHING that shows a fat princess being active and awesome? I’d be all for this game if I could use her as a player character and give her class skills and such, like the others seem to have. But noooo fat people are just round heavy things that need to be carried by other, thinner people, and can’t do anything for themselves, right?
*headdesk*
EDIT – in trying to find out more about the game, I found a great post by the Feminist Gamers about it, and another by Shakes of Shakesville (two blogs I need to start following immediately). Check them out, they echo my frustrations about in fewer words than I could.
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