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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008...5:11 pm

#14: The Nintendo Wii

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For the Best Parent, proving they are a better parent than you is of primary importance. This was once a dreary and tedious chore, filled with costly tennis lessons and time-consuming carpools to baseball, golf, or soccer practice. Add to this, the Best Parents’ compulsion to condemn most forms of mass media, especially those anti-social video games, and it was indeed the Dark Ages of White Parenting.

But then, in the Fall of 2006, the white light of freedom, fun, and status arrived in a stylish, Apple-esque, box. But this was no overpriced I-tunes-laden Ipod (which the Best Parent already owned, thank you very much). This was the Nintendo Wii, a magical device capable of accomplishing a trifecta of white parent goals – it was (1) affordably priced, (2) politically correct, and (3) fashionably difficult to find.

It not only enabled Best Parents to flaunt their superiority over non-best parents with grand tales of The Best Parent Ever Wii Hunt. It also offered an ostensibly athletic and pro-social experience. No longer would their precious progeny sit transfixed before their Playstations or Xboxes, mindlessly pushing buttons. Now they could leap around the room, mindlessly swinging a small stick within inches of the new
flatscreen!

Cancel those tennis lessons! Get your refund from Little League. With the Wii Play
game and Smooth Moves, you can even, in good conscious, renege on your promise to buy the brood a ping pong table or dartboard! Get the Wii Zapper and you’ll never hear: “Mommy, I want a Crossbow for Christmas!” With the Medal of Honor Wii series, they can even get to play World War II – just like Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan! See, it even teaches history.

The possibilities are endless in this brave new Wii-topian world. While the Best Parent frequently espouses the virtue of community and diversity, they secretly would much rather live in on their own private Biosphere of stylish accouterments and bulletproof safety, exiting only long enough to flaunt their betterness to the other Best Parents and non-best parents alike. The Wii is one of the single most significant advances towards achieving this Utopian goal.

So take that, non-best parent who didn’t get up early enough to stand in line at Toys-R-Us or overpay for a console on eBay! The Best Parent is pressing their A-button and waving their numchuck, straight for the much-better-than-you state of Wii-phoria!

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11 Comments

  • My God, I have the worst white mother. I knew the empty place under the tree should have contained a Wii.

    Now I’m doubting my mom’s ethnicity. Oh darn.

  • This is funny but riding in the wake of Stuff White People Like. That guy got a book deal and over 18 million hits!

    I’ve got to come up with a clever idea as a SAHM…

  • We have a Wii and I’m quite happy with that fact.

    2 of 14.

  • We got one today. It is a lot of fun!

  • i LOVE this blog more than stuff whtie people like because I always knews I was a white person…. and when I became a white parent….. I felt like I had a void in my life… NOW that void has been filled… NOTHING says “i’m not white” like being able to laugh at enteries on this blog and the others that have sprung up….. nothing says it more except maybe mentioning my tall dark friend Kunta Kente… did I spell that right?

    So keep up the good work! I love this…. Every time my husband reads these (or other) pages he points out just HOW MUCH i resemble what he’s read….. he’s right…. I’m white…

  • NUNCHUCK IT’S SPELT NUNCUCK!!!

  • I love this site, but this is the one entry that doesn’t quite hit the spot for me. Surely the Wii is just a games console? The latest and greatest games console maybe, but a console none the less. I’m sure Best Parents don’t let their offspring play Video Games. Video Games stunt development just like television, you know. Parking the kids in front of the Wii is more the style of second-best parents, who don’t have a nanny and therefore need something cheaper to entertain the kids.

  • Howard Stringer
    July 8th, 2008 at 8:40 pm

    Doesn’t matter what color you are for this one. Wii is the best babysitter. BEST BABYSITTER! BEST!! Buy three–if you can even get one!!

  • I. need. a. wii.

    I’m pregnant and when I’m home on maternity leave for three months, me and my four year old are going to need some stuff to do.

    I’m going to open a paypal donation fund, so that I can get a wii.

    LOL

  • yes and tell me how you feel when you 3+ year old throws the wii mote and breaks your tv ill be sticking with real excersise

  • oops….i walked into the wrong blog…I saw: “nintendo” and i just sort of walked in…i’ll be gone now.