Nintendo Calls Little British Girl A Fatass

Nintendo’s Wii Fit video game called a little girl a “porky” and now she’s going on national TV to cry about it. The game uses a player’s height and weight to calculate his or her Body Mass Index (BMI), and uses this information to berate the player accordingly. Sounds fun!

On her TV appearance, an expert found at the back of a local newspaper and the 11-year-old’s mother made an effort to assert how ludicrous the game’s statement was because “she’s so lovely and tall and slim.” Needle scratch!:

Who gives a care? Can’t the point be made that it’s unhealthy and misleading to measure a child’s health on a video game or that its not wise to make healthy, active children concerned about their weight without equating slimness and loveliness? What is she were, in fact, overweight? Would that make the game’s message less ludicrous and potentially harmful?

Anyway, watch the whole overly long video, if you wish. Fatass.

Computer game tells ‘porkies’ [BBC]