FEMINISTS ATTACK SITE AS IT MAKES WOMEN 'INSECURE'

Feminist group ‘About-Face’ attack website over claims that it promotes young girls to diet and have plastic surgery.
MissBimbo.com has become one of the most controversial websites after a feminist group calls for the website to be shut down. The Miss Bimbo website is an English version of the original Ma Bimbo created by Blouzar Ltd, which was a huge success in France, and has attracted over 2 million people world wide into playing the game but there has also been a huge question of debate as to the games nature.
The game seems pretty simple and very feminine as you begin with animated girl which is effectively your ‘bimbo’. In order to progress in the game you must complete goals which include finding a boyfriend, buying new clothes, changing hairstyles and what people are finding most serious getting plastic surgery. You must also keep your bimbo happy by keeping her at her ideal weight but other aspects of the game have been overlooked such as the forum which has allowed players to make new friends and discuss personal problems about life matters and the forum has acted as an important advice giver for many of Miss Bimbo’s players.
To the players (the average age of the players being 19.1) it appears to be a normal game where they feed their bimbo, dress their bimbos and even play various games as well as talking on the forum but many people, especially parents, are now becoming concerned with the message that the game maybe sending out to young girls.
A recent attack on the site by the feminist group ‘About-Face’ has brought to light to light once more the issue of whether this very popular site has any influence on the thousands of teenage girls that play on it. One member of ‘About-Face’ emailed the creators of Miss Bimbo, Chris Evans and Nicolas Jacquart, saying ‘I do not feel that it is ok to allow other’s who are already insecure about the way they look to feel that they can fix it through playing a game’.
I spoke to Mr Evans who replied to this comment by saying ‘of course if we are making insecure people even more insecure then that is a concern to us all’ but he also pointed out that Miss Bimbo is not meant to be taken seriously. The reaction of the Miss Bimbo players, many of whom are adult women, has been similar with one saying ‘I believe most of the women on Miss Bimbo are secure enough to think for themselves and be able to enjoy the girlyness and satire of this site’.
The media coverage of the site has also been one of a critical view with many condemning the site but the creators of the site feel it is only because they do not understand the site. Jacquart has said that he is looking into expanding the site so that the media can take the time to understand why 75,000 people log into the site each day. The debate rages on between the two sides as the site continues to be under fire.