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I beg your pardon - Miss Bimbo? MISS BIMBO???

April 1st, 2008 · 5 Comments

What the hell is going on out there? I just stumbled across a noxious website that is claiming to be an online “girl games for girls”. It’s called Miss Bimbo. Yes you read that correctly - Miss Bimbo a virtual fashion game.

I don’t even need to go any further to understand what is going on with this ‘game’. First it isn’t a game - it’s a method of brainwashing young girls into believing thin is best, big boobs are great and girls/women are bimbos. It’s also a great way of programming young boys into thinking the worst about girls and women.

Let’s look at the word bimbo - according to the Oxford Concise Dictionary Bimbo is defined as:

noun (pl. bimbos) informal, derogatory- an attractive but unintelligent or frivolous young woman.

Oh this is definitely a game I’m going to want my impressionable niece playing - let’s just bump up her self esteem by having her play a game that identifies women as pretty but stupid.

I registered to see what the game was really like - the first image you are greeted with is a big boobed young girl in a bunny suit. You just know where that influence came from - can we say playboy bunny real fast?

On the main page, the owners of the site have put up a notice that due to public pressure, you can no longer buy diet pills for your bimbo. Hmmm ….. this is a game for girls? Diet pills, bunny suits, derogatory title about women? Gee guess how old the designers are? Teenage boys would show more respect than the designers of this nonsense.

I signed up for an account to see what was really going on. Here’s what I found:

Your girl starts out with an IQ of 70. Real flattering, a borderline intelligence and 1000 bimbo dollars. Let’s reinforce that stereotype! Let’s go shopping now - after all you start with a big boobed, naked bimbo. Buy food, soda, water, pets, clothes etc. So far harmless eh? Change the name from Bimbo to something rational and I might buy this as a fairly harmless game. But having a ’sexy yellow top’ right beside the ’schoolgirl top’ sends seriously mixed messages out to young girls. This has more to do with an immature young man’s dreams than reality. And don’t get me started on the lingerie section. The birthday knickers are teaching girls that being a tart is the best they can reach for.

Let’s see, what else can my bimbo buy - books … nope can’t have an intelligent girl. She might question the message being given out here. The aim of the game is pretty straight forward:

  • Fashion: fashion points are given based on style.
  • Attitude: gain points for having more popularity and sass with a bimbo attitude splash !
  • Looks: You are judged by your bimbo’s weight, appearance and surgical operations.

Instead send her to see the plastic surgeon for breast augmentation (to augment your assets) or a face lift and psychologist or psychiatrist. Who needs brains when you have boobs to do your thinking. I’m guessing the more surgery your bimbo has, the higher the IQ goes? Lord knows it’s not going to increase with any education, that isn’t even offered . I am not joking when I say you can send your bimbo to a plastic surgeon or psychologist. This is the designers idea of a good game concept.

Yes there is a token library, but I couldn’t find any books in it. And its lost amongst the clubs, clinics, gyms etc. It’s nothing more than a false front that pretends to care about the bimbo’s IQ. Face it, the IQ is based on popularity etc, education means nothing in this world.

This game is bullshit. It presents a world where looks and popularity are all that is important. Just look at the third point - you are judged on weight, appearance and surgical operations. It’s not enough to accept a person’s looks, they must be changed and hacked apart to reach an unrealistic goal set by incredibly stupid and shallow game designers.

It is not a game for girls, it is a sick, twisted take on a mass market wet dream. I really don’t care if adults play this. Hopefully they will have the maturity to see it for what it is. But to claim it is a girl game is a pathetic joke on all of us. Don’t pretend this is a healthy game, don’t tell me it’s a fashion game - it is anything but. It is not innocent, nor is it being honest with the player. It is another way of convincing the young and impressionable that there is one type of beauty out there and this is it girls. Big breasted, stupid, skinny and malleable. Just the way the fashion industry likes its victims… er models er consumers.

Time for everyone with a brain to go to the site and start lodging complaints about their disgusting vision of girls. Go to Missbimbo.com and flood their forum with complaints and email the owners of this travesty, with your thoughts. Make it strong and clean but don’t mince words. Missbimbo should be revealed as the con job it is. It is not for girls, it is designed to keep ‘em dumb and down.

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Tags: Catpaw's Mad · Dubious Marketing · Fashion industry · Rants · Utter Stupidity

5 responses so far ↓

  • 1

    diane // Apr 2, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    yuck, that site is bogus

  • 2

    catpaw // Apr 2, 2008 at 8:31 pm

    and pathetic. Someone tried to say it was ironic - it would only be ironic if it wasn’t aimed at children.

  • 3

    diane // Apr 4, 2008 at 8:08 pm

    true that, true that…

  • 4

    monica // Apr 6, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    Quite horrible! It was bad enough in the beginning, but then I kept reading, and things went from bad to worse.

    And the worst part is that this does reflect some societal norms…

  • 5

    catpaw // Apr 7, 2008 at 9:21 am

    I’m afraid you are right - pick up any fashion magazine or movie rag and what do we see? The ’stars’ dressed undressed for success. And don’t get me started on the passion for no underwear …

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