Miss Bimbo...Again

I realize that this game probably doesn't deserve as much press as it's getting, but I have heard the argument that Miss Bimbo is not that bad because if shooting games don't make the players killers, then how can playing Miss Bimbo make girls think less of their bodies. And I must refute it.

Well, just for the record, that is a ludicrous argument. If we were handing out guns to children and then showing them all the great ways they would feel if they would just go out and kill someone already, then we would probably have a direct correlation. However, when girls are inundated with images and messages about how their bodies suck and how no grown woman with any sense likes her body. Then they are given a game that allows the characters to take diet pills and get plastic surgery and then be judged on their bodies, well that is a direct correlation and that in deed does lead to the players feeling bad about their bodies.

It is all about how things are portrayed across various forms of media. We are generally told that killing is bad. It's against the law, even. However we are told across all forms of media that big boobs are good and fat is ugly, well then it doesn't take much to draw the obvious conclusions.