ewwwwww...

Oh dear Lord.

I don't know what's worse. That it exists, or that girls will actually play this and absorb it. This is so vile there's nothing to say short of anyone know a hacker?

Yea, i posted on this yesterday - totally crazy.

It's actually been all the rage in the UK for the past month. And when the girls' "bimbo dollars" run out (the "money" they use to buy boob jobs *$11,500* and diet pills *$200*) they can add more "bimbo dollars" with real money by texting their account...

Fat-shaming, controlling eating habits to monitor every pound rather than actual health... yeah those are very good lessons, Evans. He just completely reverses himself in the end, too, admitting that girls probably aren't going to want to eat more veggies because of the game.

Yeah, maybe not, but they could very well learn that monitoring every bit of food they take in is a good idea, and that gaining a little weight is bad.

What a horrible time to learn this lesson, too, when girls are at an age where they are naturally gaining more curves. Instead of seeing this as a normal, healthy part of growing up, they're being taught that gaining pounds around the hips is unhealthy and ugly.

One good point about the article: I am so relieved that they focused on the body image aspect and didn't find someone to do some "OMG little girls might think about teh sex" pearl clutching.

Oh, lots of fucking positive lessons, like being a bimbo is something to aspire to, like there's only one acceptable model of beauty, like a girl's worth is determined by how well she fits that standard, like precious time and energy and money should be spent on unnecessary surgery, like any of this is appropriate for children.

I wish kiddie-Internet filters would catch this kind of crap as well. Probably worse for young girls' self-esteem than other sites caught by those filters! At the very least, I hope parents will block this site.

I also like the fact that the avatars are sent with their surgically enhances breasts to go "clubbing" in "sexy outfits."

No one is going to the art museum or book club on Miss Bimbo!!!

Girls are never too young to learn that their role in life is to dress skanky and attempt to snare a man. Really, that is why we are all on this earth right?

ARG!

I wish I was more computer and Internet savvy. Then, I would create a game where girls could have avatars that they turned into lovely human beings with self-respect, self-worth, healthy body images and spirits of community and activism.

It would focus mainly on inner beauty and health. I'd name it Feminist(tm) and you could use your Feminist Dollars (tm) to buy education and to donate to local and national charities. You would buy clothes and food that are environmentally conscious. You would spend time developing relationships with friends, family, and coworkers.

The ultimate goal of the game would be satisfaction with your overall life in whatever occupation, relationships, and activities you picked. That's what I would create.

This is SO DISGUSTING I don't even know how to respond.

It reminds me of something you posted a few weeks ago about an Asian video game where the whole point is to get thin and attract men.

What kind of parents would let their children play this game?

I'm currently playing this game. I heard about it on the news and decided to play for a week or two so I could blog about it. So far I'm level 3 and haven't done anything to/with my bimbo that I wouldn't do to my Tamagotchi (of course, the main difference being that my Tamagotchi is an avatar of a little alien thing, not a tall skinny girl who looks kinda like a Bratz doll).

I thought I read somewhere in the media coverage I read as part of my information gathering that the guy who's created it doesn't intend the game for little girls per se, and that it's satire. I find this to be a pretty silly statement; when you click around on the site, or when you sign up, they're always talking about 'your child's privacy', 'e-mail your parents to let them know you're playing'. If it's not for kids, the site shouldn't cater to kids like this. And if it's satire, I personally think the game has to be a lot more ridiculous, though I do find the tone of the site to be pretty silly.

This is terrible. One think that has always bothered me is the idea that girls don't like to play video games, or that when they do play video games they have to be "chick games" like taking care of an imagined pet or person or dancing with Britney Spears. I love to play video games of all sorts, my favorites are RPG's. And I'm good at them too. But this game is absolutely horrifying, and it definitely reinforces stereotypes about girls who play video games. Not to mention, what others have said about encouraging stuff like breast implants and horrible body image in general. I hope people boycott it.

This reminds me of a South Park episode where Paris Hilton opens a "Stupid Spoiled Whore" store in South Park and all the eight year old girls start wearing mini-skirts and make-up and playing "sex tape" with their stupid spoiled whore video playsets. (calling paris hilton a whore, none too feminst) It just made me think for a second this doll thing might be satire, a message about the way our society tries to indoctrinate women and give them poor role models...but no, it isn't.

This is SO DISGUSTING I don't even know how to respond.

It reminds me of something you posted a few weeks ago about an Asian video game where the whole point is to get thin and attract men.

What kind of parents would let their children play this game?

I really wish someone would make an excellent, fun and affirmative game for girls, but getting a design and implimentation team would be so difficult.

All I can think of right now is the Simpsons with Lisa Lionheart v. Malibu Stacy.

If this is marketed toward say, somebody like me who's an adult (and a feminist) who basically knows better than to take the game seriously, I'd see the satire aspect of it and I'd probably be really tempted to play myself...but jgoreham is right, if it's not meant for children "per se" then it shouldn't cater to them. They don't have enough experience yet to distinguish between satire and really what's expected of them.

If this is marketed toward say, somebody like me who's an adult (and a feminist) who basically knows better than to take the game seriously, I'd see the satire aspect of it and I'd probably be really tempted to play myself...but jgoreham is right, if it's not meant for children "per se" then it shouldn't cater to them. They don't have enough experience yet to distinguish between satire and really what's expected of them.

Are you sure this is not a joke?

Are you sure this is not a joke?

Are you sure this is not a joke?

Apologies for the double posting...

Are you sure this is not a joke?

AnnieW, it seems like it wants to pretend it's a joke, but if you read up on it and look on the site, it's actually just the creators unleashing their misogyny on young girls, then trying to pretend that they're just kidding. I'd guess they have plenty of contempt for the girls who do play it. (I'm flashing back to the video that went out a while back where a couple of guys went around and asked their female classmates if they were feminists.)

God, I can't believe it actually uses the word 'bimbo'.

In financial news, the American dollar fell to historic lows against the Euro, the yuan, and the bimbo-dollar.

This just has to be satire. It's too blatantly offensive not to be. As for its being marketed to children...shouldn't someone be monitoring their child's internet access anyway? If children are playing this game and not adults who are in on the (rather twisted and not very funny) "joke" that is more the parent's fault than the web designers.

How sad that society thinks that is a good way to entertain our youth. Now we see how low one can get to earn a buck.

stanna: "God, I can't believe it actually uses the word 'bimbo'"

I also can't believe it uses the word "Miss"!!!!!!!!!!

not4nothin: if it's marketed to children, then it is for children, not for adults. And it's disgusting. And it's not the fault of parents, teachers, or anyone else when someone purveys misogynistic trash. It's the fault of the purveyor.

If you lived on a block with frequent gunfights and your kid got shot, would you accept the blame for not monitoring where she walked? Or would you be pissed off because her world was full of flying bullets? Maybe you would try to change that, to get rid of the guns. To hold the shooters accountable for their actions.

Same thing.

I don't want to have to monitor every little thing my daughter reads, plays or watches because so much of what's readily available is filth. I want there not to be so much filth.

I find it hard to believe it's satire, considering it lists as Partners sites that compile lists of free games for girls, and topsite listings for MPOG/MMORPG

How sad that society thinks that is a good way to entertain our youth. Now we see how low one will get to earn a buck.

not4nothin, with something this abhorrent, why must there be a shifting of blame, or even a discussion of who is responsible?

Yes, the parents should monitor what their kids have access to, but at the same time, have you ever met a teenager that wasn't able to get by their parent's restrictions somehow? especially to go after the very thing that is restricted, because it has greater appeal. This also does not absolve the responsibility of the person who produced it and made it available for kids to access in the first place. It is still abhorrent, no matter who you deem responsible.

to turn this into a "well, its actually this person's fault!" discussion is derailing at worst and pointless at best.

There's a Japanese site like this: pupe.jp

But instead of being ... um ... bimbos, you earn dollars for posting photographs of your fashion, accessories, shoes, etc. Then you can buy new hairstyles and clothes and whatnot for your virtual you. I thought it was cute, but I got tired of it fairly quickly and didn't like taking so many pictures of my stuff.

This site, however, is abhorrent. If it was catering to adults, maybe I would think it was kind of sick, but that it caters to the younger audience is just ... really disturbing. I have nothing against plastic surgery, and will get some myself in a few years, but the purpose of avatars is that they don't NEED stuff like that. Your avatar needs a facelift??? My upper and lower eyelids have a lot of genetic bagginess that I'd like corrected in the near future (while I'm still young enough to enjoy not looking "tired" all the time), but my avatar just shouldn't have that problem. That would be STUPID.

Not to mention, teaching girls that PS is something you do for fun to look hotter and go clubbing. No pain and no consequences, either! Whoohoo! Or does your avatar have to spend 6-8 weeks recovering before it can go out and par-tay?

It is really irritating how he said "It is one thing if a child recognizes it as a silly and stupid game". How can anyone see this as "silly" or “stupid�? Little girls will see them as role models, not as a joke. I don’t see this as any kind of joke. Looks like to me that the creators of this game WANT us to “perfect�. You know what? F*@% YOU!!!
And it is not the “real world� to be getting plastic surgery to make your breast bigger. You shouldn’t have to change your body to look “beautiful.� And should we really have to be thin?! I don’t think so. If you’re fat, you can still be beautiful. I’ve met a lot of big girls who I admire. I wish I had their beautiful face… You don’t have to be thin to live a happy life.

Oh, how typical…two men came up with this idiotic game. I wonder if they’re happily married. ha! Yeah right, I doubt anyone would wanna marry them.
People like them don’t deserve to be happy. They just tick me off! I hope the worst for them.

Chocolate = BAD
Diet Pills = GOOD.
Wow, I never knew that… How the hell can they compare chocolate to diet pills?! Chocolate is not as bad. I actually don’t think it’s bad at all. I eat it on a daily basis, and I’m happy and I don’t have bad health.
Looks like they got their doctors degree...

I hear that on level 7, something along the extent of *you boyfriend broke up with you and you started eating a lot...time to diet and get under 132 lbs* occurs. GAG.

I too thought this was satire at first. Maybe in retaliation to Bratz and other ridiculous games/dolls/cartoons. And it was reminiscent of the Paris Hilton episode on South Park. When I got over the initial disgust of the misogyny the Happy Easter banner cracked me up. Ah yes, Miss Bimbo is being looked over by Jesus (or a chicken).

Miss Bimbo, Bratz, my first stripper pole make Barbie and other toys 10 years ago seem like good role models. At least Barbie had lots of careers and broke up with Ken...I never though I would think about "the good ol' days" when young women were force fed unrealistic images of beauty, but at least they weren't sexualized to this degree.

I'm going to join (it's free) and do some detective work. It will probably last one week of me becoming infuriated, but what the hell.

Did anybody else pick up on the automatic confirmation email you get when you register? It's titled, "Your Child Has Just Registered for MissBimbo.com"

Here is their email address:
missbimbo-support@ma-bimbo.com

Personally, I'm going to register, take a look at it, then review it on my blog and also email the creators with my review/comments. I'm hoping that being able to debate specific sections to the creators will give my comments more weight. Will post to my blog once I've done it.

I've read about this a few different places now and find it absolutely abhorrent! I've been thinking about signing up and doing a weekly blog entry about what was expected of my character that week.

It's definitely pretty creepy, but are girls actually legitimately playing it? I feel like if I was that age, I would spend all my time seeing how weird I could make my avatar look. Like so:

"What happens if I feed it chocolate and diet pills at the same time?"

"I wonder just how big the implants get... and how skinny it can get..."

"Oooh, this outfit is even uglier than the one they put her in already... I must have it!"

Of course, they would still be internalizing the messages even if they're not taking it seriously, but I'd really like to know what the attraction is for girls.

logged in to the game to investigate further and, seriously, it just gets worse.

-the avatar has a goal weight of about 125lbs and a goal height of 5'6'. how one reaches a goal height is beyond me.

-she also has an IQ that can be built up with games. although "attitude" points and money can be gained by the 20s and 30s while playing games, IQ points are gained about half a point at a time. oh yeah, and your starting IQ is 70 ["educable mentally retarded", in real life].

-one game is called "french kiss" and the goal is to kiss as many boys as possible as quickly as possible as the boys pop up whack-a-mole style against a nightclub background. before the game starts it warns you to be careful, that there may be "bad guys", but they sure all looked the same to me.

-i hoped to make my avatar as anti-bimbo as possible, but apparently you can't move past the first level without making your bimbo "a popular blonde with cool pigtails". since the only remotely fun thing i had done thus far on the website was giving my girl a crazy hairstyle, finding out i couldn't advance without making her blond and pigtailed was pretty disappointing.

-say what you will about "this has to be a joke" or "it's not really for kids", one peek into the forums on missbimbo will set you straight. kids ARE using the site, and taking it seriously. it's actually terrifying.

there is so much more, and i'm not even past level 1. seriously, this thing is the antichrist.

logged in to the game to investigate further and, seriously, it just gets worse.

-the avatar has a goal weight of about 125lbs and a goal height of 5'6'. how one reaches a goal height is beyond me.

-she also has an IQ that can be built up with games. although "attitude" points and money can be gained by the 20s and 30s while playing games, IQ points are gained about half a point at a time. oh yeah, and your starting IQ is 70 ["educable mentally retarded", in real life].

-one game is called "french kiss" and the goal is to kiss as many boys as possible as quickly as possible as the boys pop up whack-a-mole style against a nightclub background. before the game starts it warns you to be careful, that there may be "bad guys", but they sure all looked the same to me.

-i hoped to make my avatar as anti-bimbo as possible, but apparently you can't move past the first level without making your bimbo "a popular blonde with cool pigtails". since the only remotely fun thing i had done thus far on the website was giving my girl a crazy hairstyle, finding out i couldn't advance without making her blond and pigtailed was pretty disappointing.

-say what you will about "this has to be a joke" or "it's not really for kids", one peek into the forums on missbimbo will set you straight. kids ARE using the site, and taking it seriously. it's actually terrifying.

there is so much more, and i'm not even past level 1. seriously, this thing is the antichrist.

before the game starts it warns you to be careful, that there may be "bad guys"

Nothing says appropriate for young girls like creepy sexual assault threats.

This is absolutely sick.

I just found out that my computer is feminist.

I went over to the site to check it out. I thought I might even pick and avatar to see what the deal is.

My computer keeps sending me to time out. I can't do crap over on that website.

*shrug*

EG "Oh, lots of fucking positive lessons, like being a bimbo is something to aspire to, like there's only one acceptable model of beauty, like a girl's worth is determined by how well she fits that standard, like precious time and energy and money should be spent on unnecessary surgery, like any of this is appropriate for children."

Or adults?

"I love to play video games of all sorts, my favorites are RPG's."

"I really wish someone would make an excellent, fun and affirmative game for girls, but getting a design and implimentation team would be so difficult."

I wish I was better at making video games. Has anyone else here tried RPG Maker? There's info on it at http://www.rpgmaker.net/

Thanks for the link Mina,
I'm going to check it out. I've never tried to create a video game before, that's interesting that they have a program with which you can create one. Pretty neat.

There's a line between empowering women and teaching them to be sex objects. I sensed the line was a couple miles back, but I can't see it now.

Not only is this tasteless, it's blatantly sexist. Selling cartoon porn, female objectification, and a life time of self-esteem issues to girls isn't funny, it isn't satire: it's sick.

I first wondered if it could be an effective form of satire (and even then, only marketed at adults capable of 'getting it'), but then I read the creator's comments.

I'm sick of this reverse-think that goes on all the time. First you sell us a negative image of women and then you tell us it's real life. It's not, but it starts to become that way...

Sorry, posting again.

Why is everyone so keen to sign up to this site? I swear, there are more feminists signing up than anywhere else I've seen this posted! Surely you're contributing to its success? More page hits, more advertising hits, more users they can tell their advertisers or potential advertisers about... I know your intentions are good, but it just doesn't seem the best way to get the message across!

i agree with sabo10.
why do people keep getting accounts? its only making them think people like the game and it's giving them a butt load of ratings.
i know its tempting to see what's it about, but we already know the main details about it and it's BAD. so how about we delete all the accounts you have and try to make them end this nonsense of a game.

To sabo10 and Lucy:

Yes, I'm one of those who checked it out. I wanted to see for myself what was going on.

What seems to being going on right now is a whole bunch of people are trying to check it out. Their servers are crashing and almost no pages are loading.

I assume that the website will try to expand, only to see people leaving in droves. It's actually working out to a short-term positive in that fewer people are actually accessing the site.

actually, the sudden influx of people creating accounts in the last 24 hours has crashed the whole site to hell. ha!

"Thanks for the link Mina,"

You're welcome! :)

"I'm going to check it out. I've never tried to create a video game before, that's interesting that they have a program with which you can create one. Pretty neat."

They have several progams with which you can create one. My personal fave is still RPG Maker 2000 (since I'm a total n00b at this). It's fun to play with even if I never actually complete a game. Other options include

RPG Maker 2003
RPG Maker XP
RPG Maker VX
ika
Sphere
some more I just found listed here: http://rmlist.rpgsource.net/ (though some of the links are outdated)

I don't know, maybe I'm an idiot or something, but I somehow always seem surprised that there are so many sociopathic, woman-hating men in the world. I guarantee you - GUARANTEE - that the creators of this site have raped in the past. They obviously have an intense hatred for anything female. And the reason for all of this hatred was expressed best by the singer Pink, when she said that women and girls are encouraged to "dumb themselves down" so that we become less of a challenge to the male establishment.

As much as these two clowns should be Mussolini'd by a throng of angry women, I think the parents are even more to blame. What kind of parent actually ALLOWS their 7-year-old to go on the internet in the first place?? And who doesn't MONITOR what their kid is looking at online??

Parents are the ones who are in charge and a major problem in the world is that these "parents" are to lazy to actually BE parents to their kids - they're too busy being their kids best friend. What I want to know is, how are these kids finding this website? If no parent would allow the kid to go online in the first place, we wouldn't have to read about this crap because these guys wouldn't be making a dime.

With that said, to the so-called "men" who created that disgusting site - it's called Karma, boys, and you'll get yours someday.

"What kind of parent actually ALLOWS their 7-year-old to go on the internet in the first place??"

My kids have been using the Internet since about four. They use it to check out the sites of their favorite TV shows, currently Hannah Montana or other Disney shows. They also go to game sites like Yahoo! games. If one is willing to monitor or set limits on their children's usage, there is nothing wrong with children using the Internet (or watching TV).

"a major problem in the world is that these "parents" are to lazy to actually BE parents to their kids - they're too busy being their kids best friend."

Other than "lazy" that describes my wife very well. She's our kids' playmate and servant. She gives up and tells me "they don't listen" when I come home and ask why the house is a mess with about 15 library books scattered across the floor in the hall, and more books on chairs, beds and the sofa (note these messes exist all at once throughout the house and can appear in a couple of hours) where they left them and simply walked off without picking up after themselves. I ask my wife why she can't make them listen, having parental authority and all. If I want the children to pick up after themselves, clear dishes from the table, turn off lights after they've left the room, take less than 20 minutes in the shower, brush their teeth, or be in bed on time (without sneaking books into bed), I can make them do it without abusing them.

I believe "lazy" is the wrong word. Naive, perhaps. In Japan, the situation that existed from the late 19th century throughout the end of WWII has instilled in one or two generations of Japanese (particularly since the 1970s, a period of youth revolution and university student riots against the establishment where schools burned and armed masked youth battled legions of riot police) the sense that unquestioned authority is something to be mistrusted and avoided (which is not to say that people cannot be easily swayed by media or government propaganda). Therefore, parents have become "soft," and children are increasingly left to find their own limits and morals with sometimes regrettable outcomes.

I tell my wife that she wants to avoid being the bad guy with our kids, taking away privileges like TV or ice cream like I do if they don't behave. Well she doesn't get a whole lot of respect, either, when she needs to take control. I've warned her since before my son was one (over eight years ago) what the possible consequences of her method of upbringing could be (doting parent, or friend, not disciplinarian) and I was right. My wife fears the children growing distant in their teens. More than having teenage kids with adult size and strength rolling right over her, apparently.

I don't actually see what the problem is am a 15 year old girl when your at high school you learn more about stuff like that more than half the children over the age of five no about stuff like this...this website is for young boy and girls who like vertual games like this...A don't see any complaints on here about habbo hotel or any games like that there far wurse you go on there and you'll have old men pretending to be the same age as the child they are talking to...if you don't want your children going on this website then don't let them but for god sake don't get it blocked for people like me who enjoy these kind of games it teaches you about real life and what could happen...there is good points to the game like teaching fruit and veg is better than chocolate..People are not forced to go on to this website...so will you just give it a rest...you can put blocks on websites you don't want your children entering so you do that...you see a lot worse on t.v and in magazines so you going to start complaning about all them things too?...no a didn't think so!!!!!!!

I don't actually see what the problem is am a 15 year old girl when your at high school you learn more about stuff like that more than half the children over the age of five no about stuff like this...this website is for young boy and girls who like vertual games like this...A don't see any complaints on here about habbo hotel or any games like that there far wurse you go on there and you'll have old men pretending to be the same age as the child they are talking to...if you don't want your children going on this website then don't let them but for god sake don't get it blocked for people like me who enjoy these kind of games it teaches you about real life and what could happen...there is good points to the game like teaching fruit and veg is better than chocolate..People are not forced to go on to this website...so will you just give it a rest...you can put blocks on websites you don't want your children entering so you do that...you see a lot worse on t.v and in magazines so you going to start complaning about all them things too?...no a didn't think so!!!!!!! And your all sat there saying that normal people are down to earth loving people...are they nothing they sit there slagging of people..thinking they are a lot better when in fact there low lives...You've really got to get out more have you seen what the world is like out there it's a lot worse out there that what this website! is and if you want to do something useful with your time get out there and get all the idiots of the street instead of wasting your time on here moaning over some little website thats not even going to make an impact in your child's life we are just like adults we make our own minds up we have our own brain we don't need some website to show us how to lead our life we do that our self...so for god sake get a grip man!!1

FYI, I blogged about this on my Business Ethics Blog, with a shout-out to Feministing. Thanks!
http://www.businessethics.ca/blog/2008/03/sexist-messages-for-kids-charming.html

FYI, I blogged about this on my Business Ethics Blog, with a shout-out to Feministing. Thanks!
http://www.businessethics.ca/blog/2008/03/sexist-messages-for-kids-charming.html

Well, that was fast. I just went to log in my character to test out the game some and there is a little notice to read, explaining that diet pills have been taken out of the game, and responding a little to internet criticisms and media interest. I'm still going to review it, though.

And you gotta love the angry knee-jerk responses to out decisions to, y'know, review the game.

Just FYI, the game developers have issues a statement on he front page of the game confirming that diet pills have been removed, as well as commenting on the media interest. Worth checking it out.

Gah! Sorry my comment didn't turn up following a firefox crash and I thought I'd done it wrong- duplicate comments bad.

ugh. just read the notice on the main page. yeah, they may have pulled the diet pills, but there's no explanation about WHY the diet pills were a bad idea, just they they were pulled to appease the media.

also, there was this irritatingly flippant remark: "At this time we would also like to remind players that the Miss Bimbo team assume no responsibility or liability for any fashion faux pas, hair style disasters or boob jobs incurred in real life as as a result of playing the Miss Bimbo game."

is this site run by the Girls Gone Wild guy or something? seriously, this is getting out of hand.

WTF!??!

"And your all sat there saying that normal people are down to earth loving people...are they nothing they sit there slagging of people.."

This sentence has gone beyond simply having dialect, imperfect spelling, slang and/or typos to the point at which it means nothing. Hmm.

"You've really got to get out more have you seen what the world is like out there it's a lot worse out there that what this website!"

"you see a lot worse on t.v and in magazines so you going to start complaning about all them things too?...no a didn't think so!!!!!!!"

Anyone else suspect that Kelly hasn't looked at the rest of Feministing.com and that she may not even realize the site has other webpages besides this one?

To be fair Mina, Kelly is only 15... although I really really hope I had more savvy at that age I probably didn't. Although I do hope that, following her rant, Kelly might have had a look around, seen just how much we work for and maybe... just maybe... had a few of her preconceptions about gender etc shaken up?

Maybe this will be the starting point of her self-education into feminism?

Can I hope?

"To be fair Mina, Kelly is only 15... although I really really hope I had more savvy at that age I probably didn't."

Yeah, while I wrote that I remembered how I was on the net back when I was 15.

I was startled to find out recently that my 19 year old friend got her breasts done recently. 19 is a little young in my mind to be needing such a radical body change but then I see this stuff and look at the brat dolls in the store, little girls waring pants with words written on their bums with kiddie thongs so on so forth....

19 ...

gah this is all too depressing

"19 is a little young in my mind to be needing such a radical body change"

OTOH it's not a little young to need a job, and unfortunately workplace discimination based on physical appearance exists...

I was startled to find out recently that my 19 year old friend got her breasts done recently.

Wow, that is startling. Even at 19, the body is still going through changes. I grew from a B to a C cup when I was about 20, 21, after probably 10 years of being strictly a B cup. Now at 24, I even fill out a few D cup bras, particularly Victoria's Secret ones. My best friend went from a C cup to a DD in the past two years, and she's going to be 23.

"Wow, that is startling. Even at 19, the body is still going through changes."

Now I'm wondering if her body didn't grow breasts naturally yet and she thought "if it's OK for those girls to have breasts at 12 then why isn't it OK for me to have breasts as an adult?"...

I went to their site and sent them an email. Just thought I'd share it and encourage you to do the same. They already had to remove the diet pills because of pressure, so if we keep it up, we might be able to shut them down. See my email below:

To whom it concerns,

I wanted to let you know that your site is nothing but abusive and damaging to the mental, physical, emotional well being of girls and young women, not to mention the message it sends to boys and young men about their female peers. I first heard about your site and hoped that it was a joke about the trends in our culture to destroy the minds of girls and women. But then I found out it was real and I'm still in shock. I cannot believe the blatant disregard for girls and women that you are displaying by having this site available. It's bad enough that grown women are encouraged to act this way and find her value in the things presented on this site, but that you're indoctrinating our daughters into a life of misery, is unacceptable. I see this as an act of war, and I am poised to fight for my daughter's future.

I noticed that you've already been pressured to remove the diet pills, which i'm glad you did at least that. But unfortunately there is nothing on your site that is suitable, and you will contunue to face pressure as the word spreads about your attack on our daugher's self esteem and self worth. We will fight you on this until we see you shut down. We will continue to alert parents about this site so that they can block it from their computers and surely they will pick up the fight against this abuse of our young.

I see your entire site as a crime in itself. Many crimes, including corruption of a minor, sexual harassment, pedophilia, discrimination, sexual abuse, psychological abuse... and whatever else i'm missing that you are committing by providing this site. There is nothing redeeming about your site, but is completely wrong from one page to the next. There is nothing that girls will get out of your site except confusion and self hatred.

Shame on you for doing this to our kids!!!! You are starting a war with the wrong people. If you want to pick a fight with parents in this country, I'm sorry but you're not gonna win. You are preying on the weak and defenseless and we will not tolerate it.
I hope that you will think about what you're doing and what you're up against and figure out if this site is worth fighting for and if you want to end up in court over this.

I beg of you to remove this act of hatred and disregard toward girls and women, and put in it's place an apology and an explanation to your young victims as to why you have shut down. Tell them the TRUTH!!! That they are valued for something other than their appearance and they should seek to foster those other qualities in themselves. You must take responsibility for your actions and stop this attack against everything we strive to do as parents and other adults that have their best interests at heart. You most certainly do not care about our children and you must be insane to think that we will allow this to continue!

Sincerely,

mother

The jerks who created this game are not ignorant or naive. They were on the Today Show last week and they're clearly loving the attention they're getting from this. I think they think they're smarter than everyone else and are delighted by the perceived influence they now have over little girls.
Jezebel has the video.

Also, I think Kelly is perhaps a 30-something y/o friend of the creators.

These bimbos are alot like the young celebrities that we have today. Plastic surgery...check, bizarre attitudes about weight...check! money and fame over intelligence, the party-type girl, appearance-apppearance-appearance. What we see in this game reflects what exists in the real world. Why is there so much anger towards a game, when little girls are exposed to much worse ideals in real life?

I just had to post here because I can not express my disgust for this game anywhere else. My eighteen year old girlfriend has played this game for the past couple of weeks but I never really noticed until a couple of days ago. I can't understand how she can play a game which is an enabler for materialistic and misogynistic thinking. I guess it makes me even angrier because she's the idea audience, that happy-go-lucky teen that likes to party and has a wardrobe that could fit twelve. I mean I'm not that much older, just twenty-one, but I've always been my own person. I guess I never let this kind of stuff manipulate me. Don't get me wrong, I love to chill or party or whatever else you want to call it but I do it because it's fun with friends, not to validate my existance with compliments.

What makes me furious about it is that she's being groomed by Miss Bimbo. I tried to talk to her about it but she saw no problem with the game. This is sadly just one of many things that make women feel the need to be fake.

I am also upset by the anime graphics which really appeal to these young girls. These awkward proportions and pastel colors ones I've never been accepting of. I am half-Japanese and always disliked the horrible expectations as well as the hierarchy of a Japanese home, very sexist. I found these same things instilled in anime. I've tried to talk to others about it but as always, my thoughts fall upon deaf ears.

Those two men targeted a easy audience and are probably making millions for something that, with a little more effort and compassion, could have taught women positive values instead of garbage.