Feministing showed us a new video game recently, and although the video game industry isn’t exactly known to treat its female characters with respect, we’re still disgusted. It’s called “Fat Princess,” and Feminist Gamers (a site we haven’t seen before but are glad we know about now!) has some choice words about it.

Every little girl wants to be a princess, right? But no one wants to be a FAT princess! Then no prince will come to rescue her; instead, they’ll fight an army… just to get rid of her! LOL!

Don’t little girls have a hard enough time having a healthy body image without more not-so-subtle messaging telling them how to objectify themselves? Then again, if we can find this, this and this for our kids, it’s really not anything new. We say: Don’t buy it. There are plenty of other games out there, and even though these games are released and played by lots of people, we can teach our children better.

More feedback below.

Broadsheet:

“A new video game from Titan Studios/Sony has taken the cliché of the beautiful princess in distress, turned it on its head, and fed it lots and lots of cake. So much that — ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! — it apparently takes a whole crowd of soldiers to carry her. See, because she’s fat. Joke’s on you, Mario.”

Melissa at Shakesville:

“…[T]he only thing I can’t figure out is why anyone would want to rescue a fat princess in the first place, since everyone knows that fat girls are unlovable human garbage at whom any sensible bloke would sooner hurl invective than cast a longing glance.

I sure hope there’s a clever dénouement like the Fat Princess magically becoming thin once she’s rescued! ‘Cuz that would rock, yo!”