Feminists Are Back — This Time In Video Game Nerd Form
Author: AF Duncan
July 30th, 2008
A clever/funny sounding upcoming capture-the-flag squad game for the PS3 has some women gamers a bit miffed about some of the game’s content.
She’s plump, powerful and ready to cause more controversy than “SuperSize Me.”
She’s Fat Princess, the star of Sony’s upcoming video game of the same name. Debuting at last week’s E3 expo, the colorful Fat Princess is a capture-the-flag game with a twist: you can thwart capture attempts by locking the once-thin princess in a dungeon and stuffing her full of cake, thereby increasing her girth and making her harder for your enemies to haul back to home base.
Are you kidding me? I would say that this can be filed under “people taking things much too seriously.” This game looks and sounds amazing.
Gentlemen, behold:
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One Response to “Feminists Are Back — This Time In Video Game Nerd Form”
July 30th, 2008 at 8:59 am
I knew the article would link to that “Shakesville” woman who has done the majority of the shouting about this.
From what I can see, *any* person who posted on her blog disagreeing with her view (or even daring to question or explore it further) was simply labeled as a “troll”, and eventually she just shut down the comments altogether.
Apparently that’s the new “in” thing for blogging - disagree with me? You’re a troll! I win the discussion, the end.
Pretty pathetic.