So feminists got all riled up about the game "Fat Princess" - a simple fun game that showed that eating too much cake will make you fat, that the Kingdom's loyal subjects love their Princess regardless of whether she is fat or skinny... and a game that allows for female warriors to help rescue the Princess. Huh?

On one side are the "feminists"... and frankly I have no idea what their argument is... well, maybe aside from the tired old cliche that a Princess even needs rescuing... and on the other side there appears to be everyone else that simply likes games, but also seem to hate "feminists".

Big picture kids! We women today are lucky that we are able to vote, to own land, to become educated, to earn an income... we women today were raised with the idea that we can be anything we want to be... even an astronaut. We owe this to ... yes, you guessed it - feminists. Feminism at it's basics is a doctrine that advocates for equal rights for women, for the female gender to be treated equally under law and by society.

Men, ask yourself...
Do you want the little lady to be able to go to the corner store and pick you up a case of beer?
Do you like to look at sexy pictures of women?
Do you like to see a woman walking down the street in a skirt and sexy high heels?
Do you want your wife/girlfriend to earn an income... and help pay for your beer?
Do you want your daughter to be educated in a school?

If you answered yes to any of these questions... then smooth out that "No Fat Chicks" T-shirt, put down your beer, sit up straight and say out loud "I am a Feminist".

In areas under Taliban rule, women are not allowed outside without a burqa (covered from head to toe), they may not leave the house without the escort of a male relative (and should they have none, they simply may not leave the house). They may only attend school until the age of 8 and may only learn about the Qur'an. Bottom floor windows of houses must be painted over or screened so that a woman may not be seen from the street without the burqa. Women are not to be employed. They may only receive limited medical care due to the fact that male doctors could not visually examine them and had to diagnose based on verbal questions. In other countries, honor killings of women are common... women who are raped and become pregnant, women who in any way are seen to bring "dishonor" to their families may be killed... pretty much with impunity (no punishment).


This woman is NOT a feminist. She is a fat chick concerned with weight-discrimination.


This woman IS a feminist. Her sign reads "stop violence against women".


The man holding the gun... no, he is not a feminist.


This man, yes, he is a feminist.

It's sad that in our society, "feminist" is becoming a dirty word. Just in my lifetime within the United States the Equal Pay Act (1963) was passed giving women the right to the same pay as men for the exact same job, the first state law was passed in 1976 making it illegal for a man to rape his wife, and other laws have been passed to allow women many of the same rights as men. It seems that in the western world we take for granted many of the struggles of early feminists that give us the life we lead today. Much of the fault does lie with women... who expanded the word "feminism" to encompass an "anti-men" rhetoric and to pursue agendas that had nothing to do with equal rights for men and women. At it's heart however, "Feminism" simply seeks for women the life and rights that we western women have already achieved.

I am a feminist... and I like the game Fat Princess.