Daily Read: 21May2013 - Muffin Top = Food not Female

I so love stumbling across an article that makes me go, "Yeah, what she said!!!"  Here is today's treat for me...calling out the world for the "kind" words thrown at overweight women's body parts.

"Muffin tops", "bingo wings", "turkey wattle", "love handles", "cankles": truly, there is no bottom to this pit of ingenuity when it comes to coinages for apparently faulty and almost invariably female body parts. (Men have "moobs" but, guys, I'll see your moobs and raise you the dozens and dozens of names lobbed at women's anatomy. No, it's not right for either gender but seriously, dudes, welcome to our world.)

Daily Read: 8MAY2013 - It is *so* tough to portray a woman playing soccer

Apparently EA Sports is not the gaming company we thought they were.  There is no plan for EA to include women in its FIFA 2014 release.  Now, the feminist in me was incensed because it smacks of sexism and a continuation of the feeling that women are not athletes...and if they are...well, surely no one wants to play as one in a video game.  Good news is I was apparently too harsh on EA.  It isn't sexism at all.  What it comes down to is the fact that EA doesn't have the skill set to create women characters in its soccer video game.  

In an interview with Sebastian Enrique, a producer involved with FIFA 2014, here is the problem:

Tiger Woods 14 includes women’s golf and the LPGA, do you think women’s football will ever find a way into FIFA?

It is something we have talked about but there are no plans at the moment. There are lots of things we would have to change though, like the physics would be different, it would affect collisions. There would have to be a lot of new models and hair styles, there are lot of things that are involved.

Well, sure...I get that.  Damn those athletic women's bodies with small boobs.  We don't have a model for that.  And the long flowing locks of hair.  Sure, there are men with long hair that we have to replicate, but that is different.  Women are just...so...well...the physics...so different.  I think EA might need to find some new employees if this is the type of thing that stumps them.