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The fat girl defence for video games

Posted by Peter Smith on 06-04-24

The Guardian Unlimited Games Blog has an extremely small piece up commenting on a front page article in Saturday's Guardian. They are claiming that obesity statistics for England have more than doubled. Even more interestingly they claim statistics for girls have gone up even more than statistics for boys. This allows for Aleks Krotoski's tongue in cheek assertion that boys play more games than girls do, thus proving that games don't make you fat, but fish and chips do. As rediculous a defence for games as this is at least some joy can come from the plight of these poor young girls. Please post all angry comments to the Guardian Comments Page found here.