![]() She’s a medical director of Rhodes Farm Clinic in England, which treats 8- to 18-year girls with eating disorders. “This is as lethal as pro-anorexia Web sites,” Dee Dawson, told the Times. #MISS BIMBO THE GAME FULL#news agencies, is chock full of quotes from the experts. “Miss Bimbo Web site promotes extreme diets and surgery to 9-year-olds” screams the headline in the British Times. From political bulletin boards to beauty product chat rooms, adult Miss Bimbo fans rage on about news reports and parent groups they say have it totally wrong. Grown-up players unable to access either Ma Bimbo or Miss Bimbo’s online forums are forced to complain elsewhere. Wishing to remain anonymous to other Miss Bimbo gamers, Sweet Potato’s keeper isn’t alone in her annoyance. ![]() “This sucks!” Sweet Potato’s keeper recently told Netiquette. And if Sweet Potato doesn’t get a “dose” of milk, her creator will have to shell out valuable “Bimbo dollars” to bring her trampy avatar back from the dead. Unfortunately, since big media started heralding Miss Bimbo as the catalyst of destruction for the young female psyche, Web traffic continues to crash both the recently released English version of the site, and the French originator, Ma Bimbo. On the contrary, like a lot of other adults, she enjoys her daily 20-minute foray into the amateurishly-designed Web world where plastic surgery, body image, boyfriends and trampy clothes earn her Attitude points like Dungeon & Dragons for Paris Hilton-esque celebutards. It’s not that Sweet Potato’s adult keeper is bored with Miss Bimbo, which is allegedly geared towards the ‘tween set. And as Sweet Potato is already “waif thin,” in keeping with the game, she doesn’t have a lot of extra calories to burn. But her 30-something real-world keeper hasn’t visited the animated trollop in days. Occasionally, her corporeal creator allows Sweet Potato a pear to take the edge off. Ever since all this “Save the children!” hysteria started over Miss Bimbo, the online game site where she resides, the poor virtual paper doll hasn’t had a thing to eat. Really.‘What parent lets a 7 or 9-year-old on a site with ‘bimbo’ in the name?’ Now that would be a clever game and get my Mom Seal of Approval. signs on the beach or build rafts to float to the mainland. Amelia's plane could land on undiscovered islands and players could gather found objects to write S.O.S. Players could pick from a wardrobe of kicky aviation outfits. The Amelia's Flight Simulation Game could take my daughter through trivia, flight training, trip preparation, geography, mapping, weather forecasts, and airplane repair. Instead, I'd like to see an online game featuring one of my daughter's heros, Kansas native Amelia Earhart. ![]() I hope the site is not up and running soon, or ever. We feel that this does a dis-service to the players whom send their bimbos to university, tea parties or chess tournaments.Īt 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. We would also like to sincerely apologise to our players for the media comparison of Miss Bimbo and Paris Hilton. 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 are sorry for this incoveneience and can assure you that our game will be up and running as soon as possible.Īs a result of this rather surprising media attention we have decided to remove the option of purchasing diet pills from the game. And while I'm pretty certain my daughter would be just as repulsed by this game as I am, there are thousands of other daughters in the world who are not.įor now, the front of the Miss Bimbo website has the following message:ĭue to unforseen worldwide interest in Miss Bimbo we have had difficulty in maintaining our game in the manner players have become accustomed. As much as I'd like to think that I monitor my 11-year-old daughter's Internet activities, I can't sit and watch her every keystroke. ![]() Karen says that there are more than 200,000 players in the UK, mostly between ages 9-16, and 1.2 million players in France. "The aim of the Miss Bimbo beauty contest game, which was launched in Britain last month, is to become the 'hottest, coolest, most famous bimbo in the whole world', and contestants who compete against each other are told to 'stop at nothing', even 'meds or plastic surgery', to ensure their dolls win." Sadly, it doesn't look like it is.Īccording to Karen McVeigh's article in The Guardian: When I first heard about the Miss Bimbo game, I hoped it was a bad joke. It's hard work (really really really hard work) being a modern mom, and some people just don't make our jobs any easier. ![]()
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