Bimbo game may plant a dangerous seed

JOIN the discussion about this article at latimes .com/missbimbo. Here’s what online readers say:

Clearly, a morally repugnant 23-year-old guy shouldn’t be designing games for little girls. It’s like bringing [“Girls Gone Wild” creator] Joe Francis in to teach video production at Immaculate Heart.

-- Jan

I think this so-called Miss Bimbo game is disgusting! It’s giving young girls the wrong idea about how life should be lived. Why can’t these game inventors find games that help build personal character rather than glorify vanity?

-- Sabrina

Unfortunately people seem to be missing the point of the article. The game was designed as a satire of things that are presented daily as perfectly serious by products such as Barbie, fashion mags and other media outlets.

-- Flipside

I have the power to keep my daughter from playing this game. It’s called parenting. Stop blaming the game makers and start being a parent. -- Josh

Art is a reflection of life. Not the other way around.

-- Rafael

It’s frustrating. I work for a website that provides positive media and strong role models for preteen girls. Girls on the Beacon Street Girls site (safely!) discuss things. . . . The attention being paid to Miss Bimbo makes us ask . . . . how can we get that kind of publicity so we can let girls know about a fun site that is good for them?

-- Bobbie

I don’t understand the Bimbo look championed by actresses and now spread throughout the culture. To be totally sexualized seems like power, but it so diminishes the inherent power of being fully human, stable, integrated. -- Isabella