Filed under: Kids 5-7, Kids 8-11, Teens & tweens, In the news, Playground bureauIn spite of the fact that my butt has been consistently kicked by my six-year-old in tennis and that I score in the seventy-year-old range in the annoyingly difficult Wii Fitness tests, I love Wii Sports. Because the real world facts are I'm not even forty yet (I've just had major co-ordination issues my entire life!) and that I would cream the kindergartner on a real tennis court. I just laugh off my geriatric Wii age and losses to someone who still thinks a monster might reside in our heat ducts.
However, a ten-year-old girl from the UK wasn't amused when a Wii Fit game called her fat. The 4' 9" swimmer and dancer, who weighs 84 lbs, was crushed when the gaming system, which uses a BMI index based on adult height and weights, ranked her stats as "fat." According to her father, "She is solidly built but not fat. She was devastated to be called fat and we had to work hard to convince her she isn't. I know it is just a game but we already have to worry about young girls starving themselves to look like magazine models and now we have a game that tells them they're fat. This to me is very worrying."
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