As if ultra-violent and gory first-person shooter games aren’t controversial enough, now girls age nine to 16 can compete to “become the most famous, beautiful, sought after bimbo across the globe” in the Miss Bimbo game.
To win, players enter beauty contests and buy lingerie, breast enhancements, facelifts and diet pills. Nice.
The site currently has around 280 thousand registered bimbos in the UK and over 1.2 million in France.
I know what you might be thinking: How many of the players are girls? After all, most video game players are boys, right?
Wrong. 64 per cent of US online gamers are female, according to recent study from Nielsen Entertainment. So rest assured, young girls are playing this game.
Am I being too uptight, or does this game really suck?
Eeeeeew!
No, you’re not being too uptight. This is the kind of crass commercialism that gives us marketers a bad name.
Shel Horowitz, founder
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Yes, the game does suck. I worked in the video game industry for 7 years and as a female gamer, I am appalled that game exists. We have the right of free speech and the developers have a right to make and sell any game. The best way to combat games like this from being sold is to not buy them or to buy into the bimbo, female chauvinist pig ideal is really female empowerment – it’s not.
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Thanks to the article, well thought out. I searched for a while to find the right answer to my questions!
I won’t take anything synthetic. I only take herbal diet pills to keep my body fat low and my energy high, as I am a semi-professional athlete and I need to be at peak performance while I keep my weight down. There is no such thing as a magic pill though, because you still have to exercise and have a least a decent nutritional plan to stay in great shape.
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