Miss Bimbo Delivers Poor Gaming Messages

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New online game encourages crash diets, breast implants and diet meds to make their dolls fabulous.
As the video game industry awaits the public reaction for the next 'Grand Theft Auto' game, CNN Europe reports that a new Web site game called Miss Bimbo encourages pre-teen and teenage girls to seek crash diets, breast implants and medications to enhance their dolls. While the description sounds familiar to fans of the fashion world, girls as young as 7 sign up with the Miss Bimbo site and get a naked doll. From there, they're encouraged to enhance characters with sexy outfits and other items in order to get them ready to go out clubbing. The goal is to stay wafer thin, eating every once in a while.

Already derided in the UK after it's short one-month existence, Miss Bimbo has gained the evil eye of parents who are beginning to wake up to some of the messages that the game encourages, ones which many parents don't agree with. While the game is free, each user has a limited amount of "virtual money," which is only remedied by the user sending a $3 text message, working, or finding a billionaire "sugar daddy" to help with funding.

With roughly 200,000 users in Britain and a new French version, it seems like its only a matter of time before the game that proclaims itself as a "virtual fashion for girls" comes to U.S. shores.

What a horrible game! It seems to be satirical, but it should at least have a warning on the front page to discourage young girls from behaving that way in real life. :/

Well, sadly, I actually see no evidence that this is satire.

But it's quite a sick concept to make a game to train young girls to get into this mindset of women needing to starve themselves or find a sugar daddy in order to succeed, simply because of a popular media-driven ridiculous physical standard that women are somehow supposed to live up to. The unspoken yet powerful message is, "You're not good enough the way you are. No man will have you, and you won't be able to succeed in life, unless you harm your health in the following ways in order to compete with other women..."

There is a similar kind of pressure for men, as well, I can tell you. Especially in large urban areas as where I live. Even though it's been shown over and over again that it's not chiefly looks which attract women to men, and make them want to start relationships with them, men are told by society that they must bulk up and develop six-pack abs. And, also, that they must be making lots of excess money in order to attract a woman. And again, studies show that it's stability, not excess riches, which mainly attract most women into being willing to begin relationships. Stability is often thought to be included in excess wealth, but that is not necessarily the case; if the man manages money in a reckless or immature manner, he'll run out no matter how much he starts with.

I'm glad I'm male. Still, at least females get to have emotions

that game is horrible, how can they justify sending that message out to girls everywhere? anyway i also think of it as a scam because peoples have to use their mobiles to make the virtual monies needed to play the game. as a result of this requirement people have run up mobile bills in the hundreds of dollars.

the amount of pressure on girls to look and act a certain way is pathetic. and it also stinks that boys are under pressure too in the looks department, even though girls are not really as choosy when it comes to the way a boyfriend looks as society says.

i agree with Ragtime.

Given that I lurk in my room 90% of the time I'm quite immune to this sort of thing, but it is quite disgusting. Girls these days are taught to be nothing but sex-sluts and objects to be penetrated, I'm not hyperboling. Take a look at my favourite example, Nelly Furtado. Compare her original hit I'm Like A Bird to her more recent songs. Completely slu*ty. Just like modern rap. In ANY Rap, Hip Hop and R&B Music videos there'll be women dancing suggestively, usually around poles or accentuating their legs and chest.

Just recently I have been watching Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong, and I'm glad of the fact that unlike so many other movies with action in it (like Die Hard or ever James Bond), the woman actually plays a proper emotional role and is completely sterile of, well, sluttyness (although it is hard to do with a character like Kong). She's a completely sweet and relateable character. I noticed this a bit in Transformers too, although it was still there to some degree.

Same goes for men, too, as said. We're supposed to be the machos, with fairly prominent muscles and a sportscar and whathaveyou. I want to be me, not some craphat in a Rexona ad.

(apologies for the near-explicit language)

good point. why did Nelly have to go down that road?

King Kong was cool, apparently Peter Jackson was a massive fan of Kong as a kid and when he went to see the original movie at the age of 9 he cried at the end (when Kong died)
he said apparently that he wanted kong to live in the new movie but had to respect the original. Kong is given a happy ending in the game apparently (he lives)

Yup. The documentaries on the film goes quite in-depth. Anyone who relates to Kong would want him to live, and in the game, if you get enough High Scores on the levels, you unlock an alternate version of the ending level, which actually mixes in a plot point from the original 1996 script (it was canned back then due to Mighty Joe Young and Godzilla coming out the following year), where Jack Driscoll is a WWI pilot and commandeers one to help defend Kong at the end.

He also tried to do his own remake way back when he was 12. He built an armature of Kong using wire and fur from his mother's carpet, built his own tip of Empire State from cardboard and paint, and a prehistoric background on a canvas pinned up on his wall. However, once he started doing animation tests he realized that his methods were far too primitive to ever match what was in his head.

God, what a horrible game!

Shutting down the website will not help, teen girls will be still pressured to become corporate stereotypes of gender at high school.

"Friends don't let friends be bimbos"

It *will* help, even if it's just a little bit.

It looks like a stupid game.

cool. as for this game i hope that the players will realise how horrible it is and abandon it. girls do have more intellegence that they are given credit for. i saw an article once about the pressure on girls to be thin and rich etc etc, and a manager of a teen mag said that they get letters from readers all the time asking them questions like "my friend is starving herself with another group of girls, how can i help her see this is not the way to go?"

a mag here called Girlfriend has a self respect campaign that encourages girls to love who they are. www.girlfriend.com.au

the magazine has random compliments in it, and it does not feature celebs like Paris.

sorry to double post.

I went to the website, and it actually looked like a very fun girls game, the website I mean. I didn't play the game, and nor will I ever.

wow... just wow