Way back on Tuesday (which seems like eons ago to me), Denise Tanton sent an email to the BlogHer CE's about a new website full of fun and excitement. Known as the Miss Bimbo Virtual Online Fashion Game, the site boasted the following come-on:

Enter the exciting world of the first ever, virtual fashion game !
Become the most famous, beautiful, sought after bimbo across the globe!


* Find your own cool place to live.
* Find a fun job to pay for your needs and all the clothes a Bimbo could possibly want.
* Shop for the latest fashions and become the trendsetting bimbo in town !
* Become a socialite and skyrocket to the top of fame and popularity.
* Date that famous hottie you've had your eye on and show the Bimbo world the social starlet you are !
* Even resort to meds or plastic surgery. Stop at nothing to become the reigning bimbo !
* Tackle your 104 tasks as quick as possible to become the rising star bimbo !!


Are you ready to become the hottest of hot Bimbos !?!

Needless to say, I totally was ready! It is not very often that a short, average, 32 year old woman like me gets to be transformed into the hottest of hot bimbos! Plus, the last fashion trend I started was back when I was a wacky senior in high school who liked wearing jeans under her dresses, and let's face it, it was only this past fall that I saw the look in the window of Urban Outfitter. Yes, I was psyched.

Nor was I the only BlogHer CE into the prospect. Before I had a chance to do more than squeal with delight at my future as a bimbo, then go to work for the next few days, Susan Wagner, Fashion & Shopping Contributing Editor at BlogHer, reported, "I registered (because I am an idiot and was curious) and was told that my bimbo weighed 127.6 lbs; her ideal weight was 127 lbs. Gah." What? She didn't love it? Weird. Then again, her photo makes her appear to have short hair, and what good bimbo doesn't have flowing tresses of gold? She's probably jealous.

Not long after receiving Susan's email, my friend Mara from London emailed me about the site. "At least parents realiseit’s horrid . . . ." she wrote above a link to an article in The Guardian. According to the article, Miss Bimbo's British edition "has nearly 200,000 players, most of whom are girls aged between 9 and 16. There are 1.2 million players in France." Parents seem to think that encouraging girls to idolize bimbos is, like, not cool. Fortunately, the 23 year old male designer of the site explains why parents' fears are silly. He said:

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.

If they eat too much chocolate in the game it is bad for their bimbos' bodies and their happiness levels compared to if they eat fruit and vegetables, which reinforces positive healthy eating messages.

If they are having problems with boyfriends or at work, the bimbos can talk through them with a psychiatrist.

The breast operations are just one part of the game and we are not encouraging young girls to have them, just reflecting real life.

Whew! I feel better now. Time to play the game. Except that I can't get on the site. Dude, this is so not cool. I can only hope this fine tool to help me reflect on real life and date that famous hottie (hellllllo, Matt Damon) I've been eying is not gone for good. I tried to visit the site several times, but to no avail. I just get a screen informing me that there is a problem loading the page. Pout.

Of course, this is all my fault. I should have known better, and instead of going to my real job, visited Miss Bimbo immediately so that I could get a virtual fun job to pay for all needs (which apparently do not include chocolate, certainly not reflecting any reality with which I am familiar) and all the clothes a bimbo like myself could want. Tee hee. As usual, all those sour puss feminists and conservative parents out there have to rain on mysocialite parade. Not to worry. I am sure that it is only a short matter of time before someone else sets something up. In the meantime, I can always visit Barbie Girls, which come to think of it, is not so different from Miss Bimbo. Just a bit more subtle in encouraging girls to love shopping, dressing up, and being thin more than anything else. Thank God!

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