![]() This game encourages girls as young as nine to create virtual bimbos by popping diet. MacVicar challenged that by saying, "Bimbo is such a derogatory term," to which Evans replied that, in Britain, at least, "bimbo" isn't particularly derogatory and has even become fairly mainstream, used in media there a lot. An online PC game called Miss Bimbo was recently launched in the UK. Certainly in the U.K., it's become a sort of endearing term for dizzy, blonde-haired caricature, Britney Spears look-alike, isn't it?" "Personally, I think the name 'bimbo' has become an almost endearing term for your, your sort of dizzy, blonde-haired caricature. None of their parents has complained."Īs for site's the name: Blame it on celebrity culture, they say. But its fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really arent one. "These are clearly things you have never thought about," MacVicar interjected. Just because Ive got blonde hair and havent been to Bosnia doesnt mean Im a bimbo. The fact that we've got players underneath the age 16, and should you have the option to buy a boob job on there, or diet pills?" Theyre dressed in the best of clothes, the most fashionable chic. We've marketed to the general, fashion-conscious teenage market. The majority of my girlfreinds are very beautiful, intelligent and successful women. ![]() The founder of the British version of, Chris Evans, says, "We haven't marketed towards them (young teens and pre-teens). Since the story hit the British media, MacVicar observes, the co-founders, working from their kitchen tables, have been inundated, and struggling to justify their choices. Says Susannah Walker, also 14, "I don't like the way it advertises how to be really thin and everything, because it 'sells' things like diet pills, and I don't agree with that." In bimboland users can enjoy a safe fun environment in which to bring up and nurture their beloved bimbos. It is a dress up game where you look after a Bimbo character as she goes through life. It is is an educational tool, a social meeting place and a hot pot of bimboism. "I think it might influence younger people, people who are perhaps a bit insecure about themselves to start with," Ellie Thomson, 14, told MacVicar, "and it would make them almost see that as a role model or something." Miss Bimbo is an online virtual reality social networking game. It's been live, in English, in England for two months and has attracted more than 200,000 registered users there - the majority over 18, but at least some of them young teens - and even one who's nine-years-old. The site originated in France a year ago and, its creator there says, has a million registered users but not a single complaint about content. "There are going to be many children who take this very, very seriously and think that to manipulate somebody's image like this is the norm." The Internet republic of Bimbo land was created by Miss Bimbo. "I wouldn't want my patients or my children to be looking at material like this," says Dee Dawson, medical director of an anorexia clinic. Kongregate free online game Fashion Miss Bimbo - Fashion, clothes, make up, fun.
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