The majority list their real-life ages in their 20s, a bunch a 30s, a few 18-year-olds, a 40-something, a ‘tween and two 8 to 10-year-olds. In one of the rare minutes Netiquette is able to access the site, the Bimbo challenge board reveals 50 Bimbos in the game.
“Oh, and the tiny tots of crappy, crappy parents,” she adds. Who loves Miss Bimbo? According to Sweet Potato’s keeper, it’s ironic hipster chicks, granola-y “Keep your laws off my Birkenstocks” women who want to walk on the online wild side, and males of the species who enjoy playing virtual dress up. In the case of the latter, they ought to thank the heavens their little girl only stumbled onto Miss Bimbo and not “2Girls1Cup” (a particularly scatological video popular with the kids). Either parents know their daughter joined ‘The Miss Bimbo site’ or they have no clue what their wee one is doing online. The irate woman echoes other adult Miss Bimbo players in her criticism of the brouhaha. “Parents can’t be all, ‘Oh, my stars! I thought that nice Bimbo Web site was a safe place I could trust to shape my daughter’s worldview on womanhood.’ It’s such a manufactured controversy.” “What parent in his or her right mind would let a 7 or 9-year-old on a site with “bimbo” in the name?” says Sweet Potato’s keeper.
“A lot of children will get caught up with the extremely damaging and appalling messages,” she says. She’s a medical director of Rhodes Farm Clinic in England, which treats 8- to 18-year girls with eating disorders. “This is as lethal as pro-anorexia Web sites,” Dee Dawson, told the Times.
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news agencies, is chock full of quotes from the experts.
“Miss Bimbo Web site promotes extreme diets and surgery to 9-year-olds” screams the headline in the British Times. From political bulletin boards to beauty product chat rooms, adult Miss Bimbo fans rage on about news reports and parent groups they say have it totally wrong. Grown-up players unable to access either Ma Bimbo or Miss Bimbo’s online forums are forced to complain elsewhere. Wishing to remain anonymous to other Miss Bimbo gamers, Sweet Potato’s keeper isn’t alone in her annoyance. “This sucks!” Sweet Potato’s keeper recently told Netiquette. And if Sweet Potato doesn’t get a “dose” of milk, her creator will have to shell out valuable “Bimbo dollars” to bring her trampy avatar back from the dead. Unfortunately, since big media started heralding Miss Bimbo as the catalyst of destruction for the young female psyche, Web traffic continues to crash both the recently released English version of the site, and the French originator, Ma Bimbo. On the contrary, like a lot of other adults, she enjoys her daily 20-minute foray into the amateurishly-designed Web world where plastic surgery, body image, boyfriends and trampy clothes earn her Attitude points like Dungeon & Dragons for Paris Hilton-esque celebutards. It’s not that Sweet Potato’s adult keeper is bored with Miss Bimbo, which is allegedly geared towards the ‘tween set. And as Sweet Potato is already “waif thin,” in keeping with the game, she doesn’t have a lot of extra calories to burn. But her 30-something real-world keeper hasn’t visited the animated trollop in days. Occasionally, her corporeal creator allows Sweet Potato a pear to take the edge off. Ever since all this “Save the children!” hysteria started over Miss Bimbo, the online game site where she resides, the poor virtual paper doll hasn’t had a thing to eat. ‘What parent lets a 7 or 9-year-old on a site with ‘bimbo’ in the name?’
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