Outrage at Miss Bimbo website

[Sweetpea]

The internet game, aimed at girls aged 9 to 16, gives users 'bimbo dollars' to buy lingerie, diet pills and nightclub outfits. It has attracted 200,000 members in Britain

A website that encourages girls as young as 9 to embrace plastic surgery and extreme dieting in the search for the perfect figure was condemned as lethal by parents’ groups and healthcare experts yesterday.
The Miss Bimbo internet game has attracted prepubescent girls who are told to buy their virtual characters breast enlargement surgery and to keep them “waif thin” with diet pills.
Healthcare professionals, a parents’ group and an organisation representing people suffering anorexia and bulimia criticised the website for sending a dangerous message to impressionable children.
In the month since it opened the site, which is aimed at girls aged from 9 to 16, has attracted 200,000 members

Outrage at Miss Bimbo website - Times Online



I'm speechless! Can this really be going on, or be allowed to go on?

[Dunkirk]

Quite right Sweetpea. This is a sad indictment on our society and how it views the role of young women and girls in Modern Britain.

[poppy]

More upsetting is the way young girls view the the role of young women and girls in Modern Britain.
We have produced such a shallow bunch of young people who's only care seams to be outward appearance. This site can only add to this

[Hekna]

This is surely a joke?! Why on earth would that be found amusing? Do they have the characters dying from malnutrition? Show thier hair falling out? etc. etc. I find that far more disturbing than any of the violent video games.

[Dunkirk]

Here is a link to an article in the Daily Mail about the website:-
Miss Bimbo: The new computer game where girls order breast implants, do crash diets and find billionaire boyfriends | the Daily Mail

Young girls are constantly being bombarded with the idea that they need to diet - and half of it comes from the Government!