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Miss Bimbo Website Teaches Clubbing, Not Studying, Helps Girls Get Ahead

Tuesday March 25, 2008
My once-preteen daughters used to play NeoPets online obsessively, earning points to feed and dress the furry cyberpets under their care at the popular children's website.

To think that had me worried at the time.

Cyberspace has gotten a lot uglier since then. The latest entry into online gaming for children teaches girls as young as 7 that breast implants and diet pills are the keys to success.

CNN.com blows the whistle on Miss Bimbo and the life lessons it imparts:

The provocatively named "Miss Bimbo" Web site launched in the UK last month and is described as a "virtual fashion game for girls."

Girls are encouraged to compete against each other to become the "hottest, coolest, most famous bimbo in the whole world."

When a girl signs up, they are given a naked virtual character to look after and pitted against other girls to earn "bimbo" dollars so they can dress her in sexy outfits and take her clubbing.

They are told "stop at nothing," even "meds or plastic surgery," to ensure their dolls win....

[T]he creators of "Miss Bimbo" claim it is "harmless fun."

Nicolas Jacquart, the 23-year-old Web designer from Tooting, south London, who created it was quoted in the Daily Mail as saying: "It is not a bad influence for young children. They learn to take care of their bimbos. The missions and goals are morally sound and teach children about the real world."

With morals like these, we're just days away from a new website for boys called Mister Roofie that will demonstrate how bimbos are so much easier to 'manage' (i.e. have sex with) when you slip an easily dissolving pill into their drinks.

Comments

March 27, 2008 at 3:35 pm
(1) GIT says:

It is hypocritical for people to complain about Bimbo game when many of the most popular video games involve joining para-militant criminal organization with ruthless massacres as the winning goals. The only reason they give a hoot is because for the first time, a video game featuring female as leading character earning ’street credz’, and targeted at female gamers, become popular! If it is just another GTA clone, people (except Jack Thompson) would have just said ‘boys will be boys’.

April 2, 2008 at 3:20 am
(2) y says:

Both crazily violent games and this kind of game are equally harmful; two wrongs can never make a right. The line between fantasy and reality is very indistinct in young children.

April 2, 2008 at 7:17 pm
(3) Raquel says:

Harmless?! let’s see 1.) the girls are given ‘bimbo’s’ which we know is a reference to the female dog and human females who act like dogs. 2.) The bimbo’s are naked 3.) the girls goal is to compete for bimbo status a la Brittney and Paris. 4.) Do whatever it takes to become [gasp] the best bimbo?!

There is nothing positive about this garbage but what really gets me is the fact that the bastards that created this don’t have the spine to call it what it is: a way of exploiting impressionable young girls for profit and notoriety. The “Adults” that created this obviously stopped developing both mentally and emotionally at age 12. Condolences to those raising children I thank God I don’t have any.

May 7, 2008 at 1:53 am
(4) Kate says:

You haven’t played the game obviously.
Your “Bimbo” must spend a ton of time in the “library” getting smarter enable to advance in the game, and playing games that promote learning sodoku, memory type games and other puzzles range from easy to difficult, in order to earn money to buy things from food to clothing and to pay for apartments and make-up, or even to go out dancing. Hey, sounds kinda realistic, even if it is a little silly, FYI, no one said it was for little girls, if litle girls are playing it, take it up with MOM!

April 19, 2009 at 9:40 am
(5) H says:

I think you’ll find it’s not diet pills and plastic surgery, the game encourages you to gain i.q, there is a libray where you bibmo can go and study and it is impossible to be good at the game without the i.q. You also have to train for job and get a job on it, you obviously haven’t looked into it enough to realise this. And when you sign up, the doll is not naked, it has underwear! Which infact is everywhere on the high street, why should you be botherd about virtual dolls in underwear, when there’s hundreds of pictures of real women in underwear all over shops and magazines!

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