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	<title>Comments on: Fat Princess is hate!</title>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
		<link>http://www.whatwouldmattdo.com/2008/07/24/fat-princess-is-hate/#comment-121392</link>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Or what Raelyf said.</description>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
		<link>http://www.whatwouldmattdo.com/2008/07/24/fat-princess-is-hate/#comment-121390</link>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Athryn said:
"Well, this fat princess finds it offensive, and I don’t think it should be published. I’m sure if it were a game where you needed to tempt a stereotyped Jewish character with money in order for it to stay, that more people would find it offensive. But it deals with two things that are typical amongst male gamers: Girls aren’t to be taken seriously, and fat people are ok to make fun of."


You're a fat princess? You literally live in a castle, are overweight, and spend your time eating things because people bring them to you?

My point being that it doesn't have to offend unless you want it to. And saying they shouldn't publish it...you're sounding like that guy who doesn't want Colonization published because it doesn't take the subject matter seriously enough or would be too offensive. WTF.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Athryn said:<br />
&#8220;Well, this fat princess finds it offensive, and I don’t think it should be published. I’m sure if it were a game where you needed to tempt a stereotyped Jewish character with money in order for it to stay, that more people would find it offensive. But it deals with two things that are typical amongst male gamers: Girls aren’t to be taken seriously, and fat people are ok to make fun of.&#8221;</p>
<p>You&#8217;re a fat princess? You literally live in a castle, are overweight, and spend your time eating things because people bring them to you?</p>
<p>My point being that it doesn&#8217;t have to offend unless you want it to. And saying they shouldn&#8217;t publish it&#8230;you&#8217;re sounding like that guy who doesn&#8217;t want Colonization published because it doesn&#8217;t take the subject matter seriously enough or would be too offensive. WTF.</p>
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		<title>By: Raelyf</title>
		<link>http://www.whatwouldmattdo.com/2008/07/24/fat-princess-is-hate/#comment-120978</link>
		<dc:creator>Raelyf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ Athryn 

You find it offensive? That's fine. Don't buy it. Your even welcome to bitch about it on your website, on any forum or comment threat which allows bitching, or you can stand outside my house on the street with a sign. That's your right. It makes you look like an overly sensitive crank, but that's just my opinion. You don't have the right to decide what is offensive and what isn't, however, and personally I don't find it offensive it all. 

Maybe the message is that it doesn't matter that his princess needs an army to be carried home - rescuing her is still the point of the game.

Comparing fat people being tempted by cake and jewish people being tempted by money is a bit of a disconnect, however - one is racist, the other isn't. If this was a fat man being tempted by cake, no one would have said a word about it. If you had to tempt a man into staying by finding naked women to occupy him, no one would have jumped up and said "THIS IS OFFENSIVE FOR MAKING ALL US MEN LOOK LIKE SHALLOW PIGS". Those are closer analogies than your jewish arguement.

In any case, offensive or not, my question is this:
Why do you think that because something is offensive it shouldn't be published?

Perhaps, rather than choose to be so offended, you should choose to laugh it off. Perhaps you, as a self proclaimed fat princess, would also be tempted to stick around for the cake? If I was a large person, I could laugh at myself for being tempted to stay with the evil kidnappers because they promised more cake.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ Athryn </p>
<p>You find it offensive? That&#8217;s fine. Don&#8217;t buy it. Your even welcome to bitch about it on your website, on any forum or comment threat which allows bitching, or you can stand outside my house on the street with a sign. That&#8217;s your right. It makes you look like an overly sensitive crank, but that&#8217;s just my opinion. You don&#8217;t have the right to decide what is offensive and what isn&#8217;t, however, and personally I don&#8217;t find it offensive it all. </p>
<p>Maybe the message is that it doesn&#8217;t matter that his princess needs an army to be carried home - rescuing her is still the point of the game.</p>
<p>Comparing fat people being tempted by cake and jewish people being tempted by money is a bit of a disconnect, however - one is racist, the other isn&#8217;t. If this was a fat man being tempted by cake, no one would have said a word about it. If you had to tempt a man into staying by finding naked women to occupy him, no one would have jumped up and said &#8220;THIS IS OFFENSIVE FOR MAKING ALL US MEN LOOK LIKE SHALLOW PIGS&#8221;. Those are closer analogies than your jewish arguement.</p>
<p>In any case, offensive or not, my question is this:<br />
Why do you think that because something is offensive it shouldn&#8217;t be published?</p>
<p>Perhaps, rather than choose to be so offended, you should choose to laugh it off. Perhaps you, as a self proclaimed fat princess, would also be tempted to stick around for the cake? If I was a large person, I could laugh at myself for being tempted to stay with the evil kidnappers because they promised more cake.</p>
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		<title>By: Athryn</title>
		<link>http://www.whatwouldmattdo.com/2008/07/24/fat-princess-is-hate/#comment-120904</link>
		<dc:creator>Athryn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well, this fat princess finds it offensive, and I don't think it should be published. I'm sure if it were a game where you needed to tempt a stereotyped Jewish character with money in order for it to stay, that more people would find it offensive. But it deals with two things that are typical amongst male gamers: Girls aren't to be taken seriously, and fat people are ok to make fun of.</description>
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