Miss Bimbo Online Game for Girls - Sinking to New Lows
It’s official - I am sick to my stomach. This new online “game” for girls ages 9 - 16 is becoming an international hit! If you have daughters, I urge you to learn about Miss Bimbo and talk to your daughters about avoiding the game.
We’re talking about girl gamers leading Miss Bimbo through boob jobs, extreme weight loss, and boyfriend catching (so he can buy you stuff, as the game states). Bimbo dollars earned by players helps them to pay for their plastic surgery, lingerie, and those much-needed diet pills.
Miss Bimbo is going to have parents yearning for the “moral” days of Barbie, whose boobs may be unusually large, but plastic surgery was never an option. The links in this post will bring you articles from around the world - although the game originated in France, it’s quickly becoming an international craze.
There’s just no way around it, a game like this is aimed at setting women’s self images back generations - teaching girls to “become the trendsetting bimbo in town.”
And this is one toy that can’t be recalled.
March 26th, 2008 at 9:48 am
I was absolutely stunned after reading this post. Our young ladies have enough to deal with just to navigate safely through their teen years…then some trash like Miss Bimbo comes along! Since this is “online”, don’t parental contols help to eliminate this type garbage? This may not be the “politically correct” thing to say (but when have I ever been politically correct) but I’d like to wring the neck of the inventor of Miss Bimbo.
Keep up the great work. Thank you so much for the hours you must spend in research to help us avoid the ‘pitfalls’ that are out there.
Kindest Regards,
Kathryn
March 26th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
This is just horrible. My girls are only 3 and 2, can you imagine the kind of trash they’ll have when they get older? It is precisely this reason-one of- that our computer will always be in the family room where I can keep an eye on what they are doing!
March 26th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
No way. That is completely disgusting.
Off to move into a bubble in the woods.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I won’t even begin to know what to say… maybe a “WTF” is actually appropriate…
March 26th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Save us from this!!!
March 27th, 2008 at 11:31 am
this game is excelent, it shows the real world and how to become succes in life. i will love to play it with my daugther
March 27th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
And I thought Bratz was bad.
I can imagine that this may have been created as a joke but if so, it’s just too close to the truth to be funny. Why not call it “I Wanna Be Paris Hilton” and be honest? But I agree with you, talking with your daughters will be the best antidote for this kind of thing–the best thing to combat these kinds of images is for your daughters to know you know you love and respect them for who they are and that neither you nor they need what this game’s selling. And for their fathers to be right there with the message as well. You keep seeing those studies that talk about the largest part of a girl’s self-esteem rises from her relationship with her father, whether he’s respectful and loving–a girl’s first experience with how to relate to men is with her father and that relationship will often affect her future actions and self-image.
March 28th, 2008 at 12:09 am
Esteeming our daughters begins now, while they are young. Stuff like this is something you pray your daughters can rolls their eyes at, as they know and feel confident in the body they have. Build their creative, musical and intellectual confidence in the smallest of ways now.
They highlighted this new sight on the news last night. I was not surprised. Just sit on a bench at the mall. These young girls need their mothers, most of whom are not available. That is a subject I must just be quiet now.
Thanks for building awareness.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
My girls would be as disgusted as I am. And they wonder what’s wrong with young people these days.
April 18th, 2008 at 10:54 am
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May 5th, 2008 at 8:30 am
I was researching the same thing when I saw this.. I can not agree more - but I am still going to look for a better source
May 6th, 2008 at 11:53 am
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