There's been this controversy over this PSN game called Fat Princess, see. One of our contributors over on GameGrep described the title best: "[a little game] where 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."

Well, feminists don't like it. Melissa McEwan on Shakesville sardonically states she's "positively thrilled to see such unyielding dedication to creating a new generation of fat-hating, heteronormative [jerks]."

"Mighty Ponygirl" of the Feminist Gamers blog offers an alternative to the game's premise:

"Instead of running out into the forest to find cake to fatten up the princess with, why not go out and find gold (which is a lot heavier than cake) to stuff into a treasure chest. The more gold in the chest, the heavier it would be, and the harder it would be to carry. Oh, but that's not as 'cute' as cake and fat chicks. Right."

Meanwhile Abby McVay of Slashgear says: "It couldn't possibly be that it's just an innocent game, and you women are just looking for the latest and greatest thing to [complain] about." As you can probably predict, I like that one.

Feminists suck the life out of everything. At a fundamental level, I have nothing but respect for it, but every experience I've had with a feminist has resulted in them blowing things way out of proportion. I'm with musician PJ Harvey on it, who has held a similar stance on feminism over the years:

"I wouldn't call myself a feminist because I don't understand the term or the baggage it takes along with it. I'd feel like I really have to go back and study its history to associate myself with it, and I don't feel the need to do that. I'd much rather just get on and do things the way I have been doing them."

"I don’t ever think about [feminism]. I mean, it doesn't cross my mind. I certainly don’t think in terms of gender when I'm writing songs, and I never had any problems as the result of being female that I couldn't get over. Maybe I'm not thankful for the things that have gone before me, you know. But I don't see that there's any need to be aware of being a woman in this business. It just seems a waste of time."

Play the game. Laugh at it or ignore it. Everyone's happy.

(Note: Destructoid writer Jim Sterling did a great article on this himself. Check it here if interested).