Teenagers: March 2008 Archives
This makes Bratz look like the Brady Bunch. Media hysteria over the latest offensive Internet game for kids reached a peak this last week. At the center of controversy: a month-old game targeting girls 9 to 16 in which players buy diet pills, plastic surgery and lingerie to win points for their online character.
It's called MissBimbo.com, but don't try to go there. The Web site has received so much press coverage -- most of it anger and outrage -- that it seems to be permanently grounded. Created by a 20-something Frenchman, the game sums up all that is wrong with today's crass cultural messages. But I'm holding out hope that the way parents instruct their kids at home will trump all the crap they are bombarded with outside.
Here's a great story about the whole controversy, and why, ultimately, its not as much of a threat as it may seem at the moment.
Parents make bimbos, not games
http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2008/03/28/Opinion/Parents.Make.Bimbos.Not.Games-3289815.shtml
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