ARE YOU ALL SO THICK AND STUPID YOU COMMENT WITHOUT EVEN READING THE ARTICLE. THE PROBLEM IS NOT THAT IT SAYS FAT.
The problem is that the child in question wasn't even fat, overweight, chubby, plump, rotund etc (whatever word you want to use, its simply wrong).
In fact the child, according to her body mass index, is underweight.
You have all made yourselves sound thick as s**t by not actually reading the actual article itself before commenting.
The world would be far better if people grew tougher skin. I won't say that it's one of our civilization's biggest problems, but it's certainly an annoying one.
Alot of children have very low self-esteem nowadays, and others need to be consideret of their feelings. This poor girl probably cried for days on end over that. When I was a child I had very low confidence and suffered from bulimia. Im being honest when I tel you that I was one of the super skinny girls that thought they were fat, although people constantly told them how skinny they were. I remember clearly a day when one of my guy friends jokingly called me fat. I took it so seriously and went home early in tears. Nintendo should definetly apologize to this poor kid for thier cruel words
But what the article reports isn't a case of a system being honest; it's a case of a system being inaccurate, and possible providing information that could damage a user's health as result. I think a warning is appropriate so people understand how to use the device properly.
But what the article reported wasn't a case of honesty; it was a case of inaccuracy. If a machine declares a kid fat who actually qualifies as underweight by normal standards of measure, that machine is providing inaccurate and possible dangerous information.
Only a trained medical professional should be authorized to provide certain health information or critiques for these young impressionable kids. This smacks of practicing without a licence, potentially causing long lasting irraperable harm to mostly normal, fit adolescents.
if those parents haven't encouraged good self esteem in their kid to the point that a computer game can hurt her feelings it's the parents failing. Let's stop blaming things on the media or Beatles records played backwards.
the thing tells you how you are by the imput you give it so its like buying a treadmill then rideing a bike on it falling and breaking your leg do it right or dont do it
ARE YOU ALL SO THICK AND STUPID YOU COMMENT WITHOUT EVEN READING THE ARTICLE. THE PROBLEM IS NOT THAT IT SAYS FAT. The problem is that the child in question wasn't even fat, overweight, chubby, plump, rotund etc (whatever word you want to use, its simply wrong). In fact the child, according to her body mass index, is underweight. You have all made yourselves sound thick as s**t by not actually reading the actual article itself before commenting.
for fucks sake political correctness gone mad again! isnt the whole point of wii fit for fat people to lose weight?
I think they should put the word overweight insted of fat...
I think they should put the word overweight insted of fat...
The world would be far better if people grew tougher skin. I won't say that it's one of our civilization's biggest problems, but it's certainly an annoying one.
Alot of children have very low self-esteem nowadays, and others need to be consideret of their feelings. This poor girl probably cried for days on end over that. When I was a child I had very low confidence and suffered from bulimia. Im being honest when I tel you that I was one of the super skinny girls that thought they were fat, although people constantly told them how skinny they were. I remember clearly a day when one of my guy friends jokingly called me fat. I took it so seriously and went home early in tears. Nintendo should definetly apologize to this poor kid for thier cruel words
wow who really cares? just dont play then...
hey all you morons out there, it's only a game, if you don't like it don't buy it.
But what the article reports isn't a case of a system being honest; it's a case of a system being inaccurate, and possible providing information that could damage a user's health as result. I think a warning is appropriate so people understand how to use the device properly.
But what the article reported wasn't a case of honesty; it was a case of inaccuracy. If a machine declares a kid fat who actually qualifies as underweight by normal standards of measure, that machine is providing inaccurate and possible dangerous information.
THATS as rude as hell.... calling your kid "fat".
Only a trained medical professional should be authorized to provide certain health information or critiques for these young impressionable kids. This smacks of practicing without a licence, potentially causing long lasting irraperable harm to mostly normal, fit adolescents.
Perhaps it is just a spelling error . . . PHAT!
that's rude as hell..I should be the only one that is allowed to call my child FAT.
I say that people who are offended by this product should not buy this product. If enough people did not buy it, they wouldn't make them anymore.
if those parents haven't encouraged good self esteem in their kid to the point that a computer game can hurt her feelings it's the parents failing. Let's stop blaming things on the media or Beatles records played backwards.
SO does it really say "you're fat"? Because I got my wii fit yesterday and I'm normal so I didnt see any of the "fat" stuff.
the thing tells you how you are by the imput you give it so its like buying a treadmill then rideing a bike on it falling and breaking your leg do it right or dont do it
They need to warn people that their system will be honest.
indeed