When you surf the effluent-choked waters of the mainstream media, sooner or later you'll run into a turd.

After installing service pack 2 for Vista, I restarted the machine and up came Windows Messenger with its portal page. An link for a controversy over a video game called "Fat Princess" seemed quirky enough to check out.

Alas, the controversy is manufactured by the oppressive high priesthood of feminism which objects to--well, I'm not sure what they object to, but you know these people--they find everything offensive.

Yet what prompted this post wasn't the ho-hum outrage of wymen bent on holding their own feminist auto-da-fe for the unbelievers, but Winda Benedetti's idiotic defense of the video game.

Here we are one year later and “Fat Princess” has finally arrived on the PlayStation Network and I have finally played it and I am, as it turns out, a woman. All of this, I believe, qualifies me to say: I don’t know what the big fat deal is.

Artist Weng Chen, the woman who created the concept art for the princesses, believes portly can be pretty too.

I’m a pro-woman kinda woman (Go women!) who would happily pay the dues to join Club Feminist (we do pay dues, right?) And yet, there’s not a single pro-woman bone in my body that is offended by this game. (Does this mean my membership application is going to be rejected?)

So seeped in fascism is Ms Benedetti, that she misses the entire point of the controversy--nobody cares about a video game featuring rotund royalty. Its controversial because feminists insist that they should be the arbitrators of other people's choices based on their peculiar religious beliefs.

Benedetti is unoffended by the game, which means you are now allowed to go ahead and play it. Of course if she were offended, you would be condemned to be burned at the stake.

The implicit acceptance of the view that women, or anyone for that matter, should determine other people's choices is positively anachronistic--Salem witch trial stuff. Almost as backward is the idea that the purchase of a video game should be based on its political correctness.

The biggest obstacle for women are women themselves. This kind of fatuous public reaction only undermines their prospects for being taken seriously.

ADDENDUM

Speaking of being taken seriously, Hillary Clinton betrayed her sore spot when an apparent translator error resulted in her being asked what her husband thought of a Chinese trade deal with the Congo.

"You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?" Clinton replied, clearly irked by the thought of being her husband Bill's spokeswoman.

"My husband is not secretary of state, I am," she replied. "If you want my opinion I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband."

I almost can't express the profundity of this remark. In one sentence Secretary Clinton expresses everything wrong with affirmative action and political correctness. Mrs. Clinton is, by all accounts, a capable and intelligent woman, who has never done a damn thing on her own merit. She rose to partner in the prestigious Rose law firm (third oldest in the U.S.) because her husband was governor and Rose was and is the ultimate establishment law firm (Clinton associates Webster Hubbell and Vince Foster were also partners...). Is there any doubt that Hillary Clinton won her Senate seat because of who her husband is? Ironically, her most recent appointment is about the closest she's ever come to actually earning something by her own labors. The hard fought primary campaign meant that she had enough chips to demand a high-level cabinet appointment, but any objective analysis makes it clear that she really only has one qualification for the job--her relationship to Bill Clinton.

Among the Axis of Evil boys, chicks don't rate, and when Kim Jong Il demanded the diplomatic crown jewels (among other things...) from the Obama administration in exchange for the Al Gore minions he had locked up in his basement, he accepted a visit from Bill Clinton, and pointedly invited Hillary to stay home.

To be fair, many women, and they might indeed have feminists viewpoints, have understood the native reality of the human species, and achieved power and influence on their own terms--running successful businesses and being elected to public office without a well-connected spouse or near-relative. Its the difference between charismatic and fiat authority.