An Anti-Bulimia Website Fattened Up Hot Female Video Game Characters Like Lara Croft For Some Reason

Daily Dot – The website Bulimia.com has taken on a new foe in its battle to prevent eating disorders: the gaming industry. Faced with notorious depictions of scantily clad women in games like Grand Theft Auto and Halo, the website has decided to illustrate the ugly truth behind these fantasy girls: the fact that most of them would be scarily underweight in real life.

“The difference between the original video game heroines and their more realistic interpretations is hardly subtle,” the website’s staff wrote in a scathing conclusion. “In these images, unfeasible waistlines expand and arms and legs grow wider. Perhaps the changes are especially noticeable since most of these characters are so scarcely dressed.”

I feel like this concept has been beaten into the ground with Disney princesses and the like before but using video game characters seems pretty insane to me, even if we can all agree that puking yourself to fitness isn’t ideal. You want some double chinned Lara Croft shopping at Lane Bryant and pinching her fat thighs in the mirror before she goes and leaps off some cliffs and shit to unearth ancient artifacts? Or Jade from Mortal Kombat fighting for her life against Shang Tsung when she can’t even lift her leg above her hip and gasses out with heart palpitations after 30 seconds of battle? Their body types are unreasonable because what they do is unreasonable. If they sat around and wrote blogs about fat shaming in between huffing down cheese curds, they could probably stand to be in less great shape like a normal chick. But if your job is murdering shape shifters or mapping out the Shrine of the Silver Monkey then maybe doing a squat or two isn’t unreasonable.

Plus it’s not like men don’t have to deal with unrealistic physiques in video games too:

You’d think committing mass genocide by jumping on the heads of the indigenous people of Mushroom Kingdom would be better for the core but here we are.