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Just one month after “Miss Bimbo”
virtual game was launched and 210,823 registered U.K. users later, the website
that offers the possibility to “become the hottest of hot Bimbos” raised waves
of controversy and concerns among parents concerned about their children’s
activity on the Internet.
The website offers the
possibility to make your very own “bimbo,” undergo plastic surgery, dress up in
the sexiest clothes and become a “social starlet” and even more concerning, you
can submit your bimbo to the toughest diets in order to have the perfect body.
In a world where appearance
seems to count the most, and young people are especially interested in looking
good, the negative influence of this website is unquestionable, parents say. This
game already attracted thousands of young girls aged 9 to 16 who compete in
becoming the “hottest bimbo,” encouraging them to stop at nothing upon
modifying their body in order to look “perfect.”
The problem is that, for many of them,
this behavior is what they would actually do in their real life, from plastic
surgery (breast implants, nose surgery etc.) to extreme, desperate and irresponsible
diets using all sorts of pills, wearing inappropriate clothes and what else…go
clubbing!
The website already attracted
over 1 million registered users in France and seems to attract more and more “bimbo
wannabes” and encouraging this type of life. The issue here is that this
websites sends the wrong message to young people, parents say.
Bill Hibberd, from Parentkind, told
The Times in an interview that there is a big difference between understanding
this is just a game and seeing the Bimbo as “a cool role model. Then the game
becomes a hazard and a menace.”
Everyone from parents to healthcare
specialists and organizations for anorexic and bulimic persons highly
criticized the website and its message, especially considering the fact that it
addresses 9-year-old girls, who at this age are very impressionable.
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