'Bimbo' website for girls draws fire.

[Kyasurin Yakuto]

Link: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080325/world/britain_internet_health

LONDON (AFP) - An online game that encourages prepubescent girls to contemplate breast enlargement surgery and extreme crash diets to achieve a 'perfect figure' has been criticised by worried parent groups and health experts.


The 'Miss Bimbo' game is aimed at girls aged 9 to 16 and has attracted 200,000 members since opening its British site in February. The website sparked controversy when it was introduced in France, where it attracted 1.2 million players.


The young girls are encouraged to monitor the weight, wardrobe, wealth and happiness of their virtual character to create "the coolest, richest and most famous bimbo in the world." The girls compete to earn "bimbo dollars" which can use to buy larger breasts, diet pills, nip-and-tuck surgery, sexy lingerie and nightclub outfits.


Healthcare professionals have warned that website encourages anorexia and bulimia by advising the girls to remain "waif thin".


"A lot of children will get caught up with the extremely damaging and appalling messages." Dee Dawson -- the medical director of the Rhodes Farm Clinic, which treats girls who suffer eating disorders -- told The Times.


The Parentkind group also condemned the site and warned that "Childrens innocence should be protected as far as possible "


A spokesman for the parents' group added: "It depends on the mindset of the child but the danger is that after playing the game , some will then aspire to have breast operations and take diet pills.


The Miss Bimbo site was created by French entrepreneur Nicholas Jacquart, who has moved to South London to promote the website in Britain.


I agree that this seems like a really horrible website for girls. It's going to teach them all the wrong ideas and make them very shallow. It's an extremely vain site.

Unfortunatly, I'm not sure if it can be shut down because of free speech.

I know it's just a game but this seems kind of extreme. It's worse than games with extreme violence in my opinion(I don't think those games actually cause violence).

[Pilaf]

It will only attract the stupid and shallow.

[Dr. Boskov Krevorkian]

I think I'll go join that site now.

Edit; AHAHAHAHAHA

Fucking combo

[Grrblt]

RealThugz.com didn't teach me to kill people, sell drugs and take the money from my prostitutes. It's a game. Girls can play games about boob jobs without getting brainwashed to buy them IRL.

[Pilaf]

Two words sum up my opinion about the ultimate decisions we make : Personal Accountability.

[Neptune]

today's parents/guardians need to better educate their children about the internet and it's potential downfalls. an FBI representative will be speaking to my son's 6th grade class on Friday regarding internet safety, i think this is an excellent idea

[Graham Aker]

The girls compete to earn "bimbo dollars" which can use to buy larger breasts, diet pills, nip-and-tuck surgery, sexy lingerie and nightclub outfits.
Relative to my interest.

[Kyasurin Yakuto]

RealThugz.com didn't teach me to kill people, sell drugs and take the money from my prostitutes. It's a game. Girls can play games about boob jobs without getting brainwashed to buy them IRL.

Well true. In a way it's to live out a fantasy so that you won't do it in real life.

But I can also certainly see where some girls would get the wrong idea with that site.

[Pilaf]

today's parents/guardians need to better educate their children about the internet and it's potential downfalls. an FBI representative will be speaking to my son's 6th grade class on Friday regarding internet safety, i think this is an excellent idea

The FBI are agents of the fascist System. They will probably subtly brainwash the kids with right wing propaganda designed to prevent them from drinking at the well of knowledge that is the internet.

[Sasuke]

I saw this on the news, I find it kinda stupid.

[Tsukiyomi]

Its the same thing with any other kind of game. The only people who will be really effected by it are people who are easily effected through other mediums as well.

[Kyasurin Yakuto]

Its the same thing with any other kind of game. The only people who will be really effected by it are people who are easily effected through other mediums as well.

That's true but I don't think it helps to add to it.

You guys are right though. However, I still think it's a pretty sad game.

[Amaretti]

Yes, because there's no correlation between bombarding children with unhealthy standards of beauty and children with unhealthy standards of beauty.

:facepalm

Sounds like a funny game for an adult, but it shouldn't be aimed at girls as young as 9. Violent videogames have age limits, because, yeah, younger kids are especially impressionable. There's no need to remove the game, but show some fucking responsiblity when picking your target audience. Like no one would be upset if GTA started targetting children that young.

Then again, parents always have the option of actually filtering what their children can and can't do and see, and shouldn't go crying to the authorities every time they fail as parents to protect their kids from inappropriate websites. Parental locks are there for a reason. Use them.

[Saufsoldat]

Then again, parents always have the option of actually filtering what their children can and can't do and see, and shouldn't go crying to the authorities every time they fail as parents to protect their kids from inappropriate websites. Parental locks are there for a reason. Use them.

Most parents just don't have a fucking clue how the internetz work.

[Outlandish]

Link: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080325/world/britain_internet_health




I agree that this seems like a really horrible website for girls. It's going to teach them all the wrong ideas and make them very shallow. It's an extremely vain site.

Unfortunatly, I'm not sure if it can be shut down because of free speech.

I know it's just a game but this seems kind of extreme. It's worse than games with extreme violence in my opinion(I don't think those games actually cause violence).


it basically teaches them what TV and the Music industry does.

[Payapaya]

Wonder how many parents even know how to use parental locks.

Not sure why it is aimed at girls aged 9, just seems a little odd. I doubt girls that young even need to worry about boob jobs.

[Amaretti]

Most parents just don't have a fucking clue how the internetz work.

It's a new kind of natural selection. Survival of the geekiest.

[Tsukiyomi]

That's true but I don't think it helps to add to it.

I agree, but I also don't think it helps to add a lot of things we have out there in society.

But hey, its a parents job to decide what their kids can and can't do, this is just something a parent will have to decide to say no on.

[PerveeSage]

Wow, what an interesting usage of the internet to regulate the thought processes of young impressionable minds. Deus ex machina bitches.

[colours]

I can't help but laugh.

[Psycho]

i find it funny how a game about being a bimbo is making girls act like bimbos, if all it should make them laugh their guts out of how stupid can it be

and may i add, THE INTERNET IS SERIOUS BUISNESS lol, i just had to say that

[Brokensharingan]

Girls play the sims, it doesn't encourage them to drown people. This is just pure and simply rediculious, besides if a child is this impresionable they're not going to do well in life anyway

[Detonator_Fan]

What's the problem do you guys see with that?
Besides, a girl must care about how she looks.

Women should try to be beautiful
Men should try to be rich

That's natural selection, bitch.

Later don't complain that you can't marry just because you have the weight of a NFL ofensive lineman or in case that you are a guy, if you are 40 and lives on wellfare.

[Jagon Fox]

kids are kids, and they are easily impressionable. I think it is a horrible idea, that should be targeted to above and older, why the hell should a fucking 9 year old need to know about boob jobs and eating disorders? They should change the age range at least to adults.

[Adonis]

Girls play the sims, it doesn't encourage them to drown people. This is just pure and simply rediculious, besides if a child is this impresionable they're not going to do well in life anyway

I'd say this in a less "crass" way, granted, but he/she(?) has a point.

Call me cynical but I doubt a young girl accidentally stumbles upon the "Miss Bimbo" website while looking up instructions to her My Little Pony set or whatever innocuous bullshit little girls do.

I mean, I look up fucking porn and am a fairly active internet user yet I was oblivious to this site until, lo and behold, the news felt obligated to warn me and others about the prevalence and danger of this site. Funny that.

Rather than placing blame on this site people should be wondering how a 9 year old girl could be drawn to it in the first place.

Bottomline: Miss Bimbo isn't molding bimbos anymore than Grand Theft Auto is molding carjacking delinquents.

P.S. :laugh

[neko-sennin]

It will only attract the stupid and shallow.

Both sadly, and fortunately, I think you're right.

Still it seems kinda sad that human society now needs and "Idiot's Guide" to being a bimbo, of all things. :huh

[Cirus]

If parents monetored their kids, used the control fetures on their computer, and taught their kids the right thing then this wouldn't be a problem.

[WorstUsernameEver]

If a chick gets influenced by that she's pretty weak minded

[Jagon Fox]

This could be your daughter after playing the Bimbos game! XD


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzh10_xoqw

[Neji64]

What's the problem do you guys see with that?
Besides, a girl must care about how she looks.

Women should try to be beautiful
Men should try to be rich

That's natural selection, bitch.

Later don't complain that you can't marry just because you have the weight of a NFL ofensive lineman or in case that you are a guy, if you are 40 and lives on wellfare.

So a woman's only chances of survival is gold-digging?

[Denji]

What empty, superficial bullshit.:facepalm

[Detonator_Fan]

So a woman's only chances of survival is gold-digging?

No, but that guys like women with good looks and women like guys that are successful. This is how things works.
It's not because either of them are "evil". This is "natural selection".

[Megatonton]

Parody, if at all.

I know girls who won't take this crap seriously, and they aren't superficial at all. Just take this as a joke.

[Sapwood2]

Parody, if at all.

I know girls who won't take this crap seriously, and they aren't superficial at all. Just take this as a joke.

Exactly! It seems more like a satire of society than a serious game.

[PerveeSage]

If a chick gets influenced by that she's pretty weak minded

that accurately describes over three fourths the women out there :zaru

yea im a sexist pig now go make me a sandwich.

[Pilaf]

that accurately describes over three fourths the women out there :zaru

yea im a sexist pig now go make me a sandwich.

No..you'd be a sexist if you didn't acknowledge that women do more to demean themselves than men do.

[Nesha]

This seems like another cheap way for parents to blame society for their kids "not turning out right" instead of educating their OWN children about these issues.

Parental locks are created for a REASON. USE THEM.

This is reminding me of when I was watching Dr. Phil and some parents blame BRATZ DOLLS for the way their daughters are dressing!

HEL-LO BRATZ DON'T GO TO THE STORES AND BUY THE CLOTHES FOR THESE GIRLS!!!

Obviously parents, if you don't approve of something, do something to prevent your child from being exposed to it. I understand that a parent can't be around their child all the time, that's where TALKING and COMMUNICATING with your child comes in.

[Wolfarus]

Its idiotic, but harmless. PROVIDED that the girls' parents actually do their jobs and make sure they understand that this isnt "how" girls are supposed to act and aim to grow up as.

But im sure they'll be a handfull of kids who take the game into their real lives and develop problems :facepalm

[element_fighter]

This could be your daughter after playing the Bimbos game! XD


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEzh10_xoqw
:amuse
Ah Aqua scary middle school dance memories

As for the game, it'll appeal to the simply amused and easilly suggestable

[molkame]

whats next a guy website for penis enlargment games.

[E]

it's a game not meant to be taken so seriusly :edu

[AbnormallyNormal]

lol this game is just a manifestation of wider social ills. if anything playing the game online might help make young women act out their fantasies without actually going through with it

[temporarymadness]

girls 9-16? oh crap...with that kinda stuff on the web, what will become of the world now?

[Kurumie Tsurashima]

lol

Blame MTV :zaru They wanna turn teenage girls into skanks :sag

[Machinesister]

to be honest that would have been a brilliant satirical game if it weren't for the ages of the target demographic

[pajamas]

Its a fucking game >:

[Machinesister]

it's also aimed at impressionable kids, think about that

children tend to emulate things they're really into. why else do you think there's a market for superman costumes?

this is no different

think

[Neji64]

No, but that guys like women with good looks and women like guys that are successful. This is how things works.
It's not because either of them are "evil". This is "natural selection".
It just sounded like you were stating that women shouldn't seek to improve their independence, and just rely on men.

[Detonator_Fan]

It just sounded like you were stating that women shouldn't seek to improve their independence, and just rely on men.

No, no...
I don't think that.

I'm talking more about relationships.
And relationships are important too. To some people, even more than professional success...

[Moonshine]

:lmao bimbo dollars

Well, as the game...as it does leave a bad impression for girls, but so does the media saying girls should be skinny and not eat and other stuff...I say parents should make sure there girls know that that is a game, and you shouldn't live life like the way in the game

[Masaki]

Forget what it's going to do to them later on.

That is fuckin retarded.

[tryagain]

in a sense, this is the equivalence of boys playing shooting games such as half life 2- they act out their fantasies in a game world

[Aldrick]

The irony would be lost on 9 year olds.

[64palms]

Two words sum up my opinion about the ultimate decisions we make : Personal Accountability.
Yeah, I totally believe prepubescent girls are totally accountable for their actions.

At that age they're not very impressionable, and have developed a strong sense of fiction versus reality by then. For this reason we should lower the age of consent to nine. There's no reason to protect children, they should be accountable for their own actions.

[tryagain]

lol age of consent

[Axl Low]

Arg...
This makes me a bit sick.

[Detonator_Fan]

Yeah, I totally believe prepubescent girls are totally accountable for their actions.

At that age they're not very impressionable, and have developed a strong sense of fiction versus reality by then. For this reason we should lower the age of consent to nine. There's no reason to protect children, they should be accountable for their own actions.

This vision is quite popular at some image boards.

(before someone thinks badly of me, I disagree with this vision)

[Cell]

This is a nation of sexist propaganda aimed towards young girls, encouraging them to change themselves to look how the mainstream WANTS them to look. We don't need this trash. You don't love a girl because she is beautiful, she's beautiful because you love her.

Fuck that.

[MaxJenius]

it basically teaches them what TV and the Music industry does.

/thread

This is nothing new. This site simply comes out and says it. Parents should just monitor their damn kids.

[Aldrick]

At that age they're not very impressionable, and have developed a strong sense of fiction versus reality by then.

I'm 13 and I have contact with lots of other children.

I believe your full of shit.

For this reason we should lower the age of consent to nine.

You're fucked up.

[Mr. Joe]

This is good, more little girls should play this game, there'll be less fat women running around.

[Detonator_Fan]

This is a nation of sexist propaganda aimed towards young girls, encouraging them to change themselves to look how the mainstream WANTS them to look. We don't need this trash. You don't love a girl because she is beautiful, she's beautiful because you love her.

Fuck that.

Girls that have the weight of an NFL offensive lineman are not pretty, no matter how you look at them.

This is good, more little girls should play this game, there'll be less fat women running around.

That's true.
There should be a tax on fat people aged 18-40.

[Get F*cked Stud]

This is good, more little girls should play this game, there'll be less fat women running around.

That was awesome. I will +rep you when I can.

[Pale]

The fact is that it is the parent's responsibility to prohibit the things that they don't want their child exposed to. This game is nothing worse than what kids see on tv every day. Example: Every mtv program.

[Get F*cked Stud]

I know. Hating this game because you think it has a negative effect on children makes you no better than Jack Thompson.

Who is a complete faggot.

Get a 'cock-blocker' or something to restrict the sites your children has access to.

[Wingmay]

That is sick, I feel sorry for those who have such a low self esteem level.
I think its stupid to make a site like this, their (the celebs world younger teens etc) idea of the perfect body is messed up, No one really looks like that without hurting themselves or having someone cut them open.

[Sexta Espada]

Video games =/= real life. Or real life influences. Otherwise, we'd have people running around with Tommie guns shooting Germans screaming "Take that Jerry" "Kick their asses back to the Fatherland"

[tryagain]

it still influences kids in terms of aggressiveness

[Rated R Superstar]

No wonder why society is as fucked up as it is. Things like this are a bad influence on the new generation.

[Axl Low]

Argh.
I hate that website.
So retarded...

[Die]

I LOLED :lmao

[Juno]

Video games =/= real life. Or real life influences. Otherwise, we'd have people running around with Tommie guns shooting Germans screaming "Take that Jerry" "Kick their asses back to the Fatherland"

Call of Duty has a certificate of 15. It's not aimed at minors.

THIS game, however, is. The concepts in this game are very adult and you wouldn't aim a film featuring these themes at children as young as 9, so why are games somehow different?

The problem is that too many people overreact to any kind of criticism to games, because normally game criticism IS bullshit. Games are usually rated responsibly and targeted at different age groups according to their content. But here's a game that doesn't give a fuck about that, and everyone's too wrapped up in the automatic knee-jerk defence of games to realise that this is actually wrong.

That and this game also apparently encourages minors to use premium phone lines to cash their game money. This is actually illegal.

[Jackal]

i bet you a man made this game :LOS

[maximilyan]

:lmao wtf .. too bad there are alredy over 1million potential victims.