Miss Bimbo

This is the kind of thing that we of moms of girls are up against!!! MissBimbo.com is a site geared to 7-17 year old girls. Remember playing with Barbies? Remember when parents started getting upset because of Barbie pushing a new body ideal of what perfect was? Barbie had perfect boobs, perfect hips, the perfect little waist. Barbie then started having more professional careers, in an attempt to help empower our young girls, through their play, to become doctors, veterinarians and politiciand.

While my 7 year old daughter is busy playing with Webkinz or Barbie online, now there is this virtual bimbo game. In Miss Bimbo, girls are encouraged to purge and have eating disorders, get breast implants and find a sugar daddy to support their shopping habits.

The games creators think that the game is harmless fun, while our youngest daughters are being taught that plastic surgery and diet pills will make them popular. Our daughters face so many challenges when it comes to advertising. They are the target of constant ads being placed that have 'beautiful' women who have large breasts, blond hair, blue eyes and are size 3s. Our daughters don't understand that the real world isn't all women in that range. Even the 'teen magazines' are covered in articles about image and weight. Everything right now is stacked against our daughters.

When you manage to get MissBimbo.com to load, there is a message on there from the creators. It says "As a result of this rather surprising media attention we have decided to remove the option of purchasing diet pills from the game. We apologise to any players whom this may inconvenience but we feel in light of this weeks proceedings it is the correct action to take.

We would also like to sincerely apologise to our players for the media comparison of Miss Bimbo and Paris Hilton. We feel that this does a dis-service to the players whom send their bimbos to university, tea parties or chess tournaments.

At this time we would also like to remind players that the Miss Bimbo team assume no responsibility or liability for any fashion faux pas, hair style disasters or boob jobs incurred in real life as as a result of playing the Miss Bimbo game."

They KNOW that girls go out and have these things done in real life, and are trying to cover their butts. Instead of encouraging girls that this is 'just a game' and to not try these things at home, they are more worried about the 'what ifs' in case girls do go have them done. And they are concerned that their bimbos are being compared to Paris Hilton??? I think the comparison is a real one! I mean lets see a comparison...
Hhhhmmm, do you see comparions??? I think "I" do!!!!


Another question, is why are we allowing the term 'bimbo'? If a game were created that used the 'N word' and was targeted at young black girls, would everyone stand by and support it? Why are we allowing our daughters to be targets??? If the a game as created that was called "The Pimp" and was targeted at getting our boys to find girls to prostitute, do drugs, sleep around, would we stand by and watch, silently? It's time we as parents stand up and voice our concerns over the media and ads geared toward our daughters. We need to begin to protect them!!!