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Miss Bimbo Is Missunderstood (By Feminazis)

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Scanner Brian already broke the story about the "Miss Bimbo" video game,  which describes itself as a “virtual fashion game for girls.” But I wanted to take a moment to defend the game from the Feminazis who are attacking it. First of all, a little about the game. When the game encourages its players to "stop at nothing" to win, what exactly does that mean?

When you sign up to play the game, you are given a naked female character and encouraged to compete against other players to become “hottest, coolest, most famous bimbo in the whole world.” The game coaches the players-- whose age ranges from 7-17– to “stop at nothing,” not even “meds or plastic surgery,” to win. Missions include buying and taking diet pills which cost 100 bimbo dollars. You can even eat “every now and then” but you must stay “waif thin.” Another mission you are given is to find a rich boyfriend:

Bimbo dollars is ‘the cabbage,’ ‘bread,’ the ‘mula’ you’ll need to buy nice things and to get by in bimbo world. To earn some bimbo cash you will have to (gasp) work or find a boyfriend to be your sugar daddy and hook you up with a phat expense account!

And of course, no game called Miss Bimbo would be complete without encouraging their young female players to get breast implants, which will cost you 11,500 bimbo dollars, but get you 2,000 bimbo attitudes, which is sooo worth it. 

Now before any man haters get their panties in a bunch or call the game sexist, vile, and exploitative, just know that the male creators of the game say it’s “harmless fun.” In fact, according to the creators, the game is helpful eduction:

It is not a bad influence for young children. They learn to take care of their bimbos. The missions and goals are morally sound and teach children about the real world…. The breast operations are just one part of the game and we are not encouraging young girls to have them, just reflecting real life.


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danrimage said:

Not that I don't think this game is stupid, cliched, offensive nonsense, isn't it a little patronising to assume that just because it's being played by little girls they will base the rest of their lives on it? Does that mean that every boy who plays World Of Warcraft will immediately want to get busy weilding a massive blade?

The game is horrible, sexist crap, so in what way does it differ from the many and various other cultural ghettoes (chick flicks, chick lit, soap operas, hospital dramas etc) women are constantly hving shoved at them by the media? At least THIS horseshit encourages girls to use computers, dammit.

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