Wii Fit Dares to Call Young Girl ‘Fat’ – Experts Call For Parental Warning (and even a ban)

Who could possibly have envisaged Nintendo's Wii Fit as being the next
software title to have 'nanny state' experts up in arms and calling for
reclassification and even a ban, but, thanks to the fact that a certain
Wii Fit balance board had the audacity to call a young girl 'fat' that's
exactly what's happened.

According to the Daily Mail (duly credited), the offending Wii Fit
balance board, based somewhere in the South East of England, horrified
the family of a 10 year old girl who's billed as being 'solidly built'
(purportedly her father's words, not ours) when it called her 'fat'.
She is a perfectly healthy, 4ft 9in tall 10-year-old who swims, dances
and weighs only six stone, (6 stone = 38.1kg, incidentally) said the
father, who did not want to be named for fear of embarrassing the girl
further, states the Daily Mail who also reports that obesity experts are
now calling for Nintendo's Wii Fit to be banned as far as young children
are concerned.
Nintendo have responded by issuing a press statement reading: 'Nintendo
would like to apologise to any customers offended by the in-game
terminology used to classify a player's current BMI status, as part of
the BMI measurement system integrated into Wii Fit. [The] Wii Fit is
still capable of measuring the BMI for people aged between two and 20
but the resulting figures may not be entirely accurate for younger age
groups due to varying levels of development.'
Personally I also have a problem with the Wii Fit as, thanks to having
only one TV in the house, my wife persistently working out with her Wii
Fit is preventing me from doing an especially lucrative drug deal in GTA
IV which is, let's face it, completely out of order.
Perhaps I'll also write to the Daily Mail though I suspect that my story
will be axed in favour of a breaking news item where a father breaks
down as he details how two (unnamed) insects had the audacity to have a
quick shag in front of his daughter (21, slim, blond and not
unattractive) occasioning grave offence and a long overdue chat about
the 'birds and the bees'.

What is the world coming to?

Daily Mail