Here lies the subject line of a confirmation email sent after registering at Miss Bimbo - the world’s first virtual fashion game, approved for nine year old girls, where young women aspire to become the world’s most famous and beautiful bimbo.
Miss Bimbo allows girls as young as nine years old to choose outfits, accessories and boyfriends for their respective Miss Bimbo avatars. Once they have settled on a boyfriend who “brings them money for all their girlie needs - earning them more bimbo attitude,” they can flirt or dance with them at Club Bimbo. They can also search for an apartment, enlist a personal trainer and visit a plastic surgeon for a face lift or even breast augmentation, if they’re feeling adventurous.
Numerous news outlets have gotten word of the website and developed their own take on it. The site recently removed the option to purchase diet pills for one’s respective bimbo, citing an influx of negative media attention.
But we’ve seen at least one comment, praising the site, arguing that it teaches young children how to take care of their bimbo and instills values concurrent with the “real world.”
Although the removal of the diet pill feature is a step in the right direction, Miss Bimbo still refers to young women as “bimbos” and touts an unrealistic weight standard, encouraging the use of a personal trainer to get rid of “love handles, packed on by excessive eating.”
As we write this post, it’s our intention to bring to the forefront the negative impact this controversial site could have on young women. We believe values such as responsibility and taking care of oneself can be instilled in ways other than channeling a website that infiltrates negative body image within the impressionable mind of today’s youth.
We’d like for our readers to sound-off about this website. Does this website sound like the “real world” to you? Having our voices heard will strengthen the online community as we resist the “values” society places on young women and men.
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