Miss Bimbo Annotated Bibliography Draft

Game Subject: Miss Bimbo; ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DRAFT

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Karen, Mcveigh. “Internet Miss Bimbo Game for Girls Attacked by Parents.” Society/Children Tuesday, March 25, 2008. The Guardian, U.K. <http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/mar/25/children.news> This article was extremely similar, if not the same as an article featured on cnn.com about an online game “Miss Bimbo.” The article was expressing the concern parents have for their children playing a game that promotes plastic surgery, dieting, and an all around unhealthy obsession with appearance. The parents were also concerned at the cost of the game when after a while it stops becoming free and their children are charged to play. I could use this article to support my thesis that parents are placing overemphasis on the value that video games play in the role of children. I could also use it for the opposite point that this game places terrible ethical values in the minds of vulnerable young girls.


Helen A.S. Popkin. “Don’t Blame Miss Bimbo.” Technology and Science. 8:51 a.m., Monday March 31, 2008. msnbc News. <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23851531/> This article is very useful to an essay about the ethics of “Miss Bimbo” because it presents both sides of the argument very effectively. It initially presents the concern that the game is unethical to young girls self perception, it then brings up the argument that this game is mostly played by old ladies anyway and if young children have access to it, then that represents bad parenting on behalf of the family. I could definitely use this article in my paper to support the point that games aren’t the sole problem with a young woman’s perception of herself. I could use the quote the article gives: “Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills, and listening to repetitive music.”

Steve Bird. “Miss Bimbo Website Promotes Extreme Diets and Surgery to 9 Year Olds.” Technology and Web. March 25, 2008. The Times This article focused solely on the negative perception of the Miss Bimbo game. Unlike the other article which only included personal opinions from parents, this article included an opinion from a professional at an anorexia clinic for young girls who believed the game was a bad influence. It also breaks down the game in more detail describing each level. I could use this article if I present the scientific as well as social evidence that young girls are negatively harmed by this, if I were to argue against its ethical standpoint.


Leslie Goldman. “Miss Bimbo: “The Scariest Girls Game Ever.” Living. March 25, 2008. The Huffington Post. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/25/miss-bimbo-the-scariest-_n_93346.html> This article is a biased satirical article which presents one side of the argument that Miss Bimbo is a ridiculous example to be setting to young children. It teaches them to be superficial and stupid. I could use this authors point in my essay in arguing that the game only presents one side of this “bimbo” lifestyle and not the other more harsh realistic side of drug use and rehab and anorexia.


Phil Black. “Outrage Over Bimbo Game” CNN. March, 2008. You Tube. Accessed October 16, 2008. <www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnctjTF4cuo> This video interviewed the creator of the “Miss Bimbo” website Nicolas Jacquart, a young male who claims the website is all in good fun and not meant to undermine young girls. The video then proceeds to interview a psychologist and an eating disorder expert who claim the game is not suited for young girls due to the ill effects it has psychologically. Though the interview presents both sides, I believe they were leaning against the ethics of Miss Bimbo because the creator admitted he would not want his little sister called a bimbo. If used in an essay, I would use the expert’s point of view and point out the fact that the creator was a young male and that the women are portrayed the way he sees them fit.

Video Game Articles

Article 1: http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2006/03/06/games_ethics_issue/1

This small article summarized the progression of violent video games starting from 1976 to contradict the argument that violence in video games began with Grand Theft Auto recently. The author compares how these games began and notes that a slow transformation from lightly violent games to more complex realistic form where you play the enemy instead of the hero. I agree with the author that video games did not all of a sudden become violent with the creation of Grand Theft Auto. Everything must start somewhere. It is only when something becomes in excess that it becomes detrimental to society and video games of shooting people and picking up prostitutes is considered excess to some.

Article 2: http://www.businessethics.ca/blog/2006/01/more-about-video-games.html

This article was written by a scholar in business ethics who believes that violence in video games cannot be condemned until a more concrete causal link is brought upon as evidence. I agree with this author that people will argue autonomy in choosing what games they may and may not play and that society cannot restrict that simply because a small minority of people will become ill affected by these games. It is up to the person whether they utilize the game as entertainment or if it warps their minds.