Spooge's Spit Up - Outrage at Miss Bimbo Site



Parents' groups are horrified over a new internet game that is taking off in Britain, where tween girls are encouraged to compete for cash to give their virtual dolls facelifts, breast implants and a regime of diet pills to keep them skinny.

It's called Miss Bimbo and it's free to play until the contestants run out of virtual dollars. Then they have to send cell phone text messages costing US$3 each or use PayPal to top up their accounts.

You start with a naked virtual character and go from there, shopping for clothes, food and pets — and you can sell your items for a profit in Bimbo dollars. You can also play the lottery.

From the game:

Don't forget that the aim is to be the coolest, richest and most famous bimbo in the whole world/game. In order to do this, you must complete the Goals!

First three goals in the game? Like George Thorogood suggests, get a haircut, and get a real job.

1 Change your drab hairstyle to become a popular blonde with cool pigtails!

2 Rent your very own apartment. Bout time you got your own pad

3 Register yourself on a training course and get an exciting new job!

Parents are worried the game could send the wrong message about eating disorders and plastic surgery to young girls. Really? You have a target weight, a target IQ, you have to get your hair cut and go on a mission to meet guys at clubs — sort of a how-to guide to being Paris Hilton.

As CNN spells it out:

Users are given missions, including securing plastic surgery at the game's clinic to give their dolls bigger breasts, and they have to keep her at her target weight with diet pills, which cost 100 bimbo dollars.

Breast implants sell at 11,500 bimbo dollars and net the buyer 2,000 bimbo attitudes, making her more popular on the site.

And bagging a billionaire boyfriend is the most desirable way to earn the all important "mula" or bimbo dollars.

More from the Guardian:

Bill Hibberd, of parents' rights group Parentkind, said the game sent a dangerous message to young girls.

He said: "It is one thing if a child recognises it as a silly and stupid game.

"But the danger is that a nine-year-old fails to appreciate the irony and sees the bimbo as a cool role model. Then the game becomes a hazard and a menace.

"Children's innocence should be protected as far as possible. It depends on the background and 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."

Miss Bimbo's sister Web site Ma Bimbo started in France last year and was condemned by dieticians and parents. One parent threatened the creators with legal action after his daughter ran up a £100 mobile bill sending texts without his knowledge.

The British version already has nearly 200,000 players, most of whom are girls aged between 9 and 16. There are 1.2 million players in France.

The creators of Miss Bimbo — surprise — say it's all just harmless fun:

Nicolas Jacquart, the 23-year-old web designer from Tooting, south London, who created it, said: "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.


Photo: Screen shot of the Miss Bimbo Web site.

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