With a cursory glance at the rules of the "game", parents of today's computer-obsessed youngsters will quickly understand its insidious appeal. Since its UK launch a month ago, the website has attracted more than 200,000 visitors. Miss Bimbo is an online game designed for girls as young as nine, where players are invited to meet the demands of a voracious, virtual teenager whose needs include binge eating and fasting - and plastic surgery. No wonder, then, that the advent of a "Miss Bimbo" website has provoked such an outpouring of parental outrage and anxiety. In times when young men might be called upon to go to war and women were the guardians of hearth and home, we gave our sons tin soldiers, and our daughters baby dolls. It matters, too, because the games and toys we hand our children are important expressions of our collective values and expectations. Child's play? The Miss Bimbo website is causing controversåhild's play matters because it is a rehearsal for adult life.
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