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Don't blame Miss Bimbo

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:13 AM EDT

Article Source: msnbc.com

technology, internet, kids, parents, web-site, online-game

Ever since big media starting heralding Miss Bimbo as the catalyst of destruction for young girls, Web traffic continues to crash the online game site. "What parent lets a 7 or 9-year-old on a site with 'bimbo' in the name?" says the adult keeper of Sweet Potato, a character on the online game site Miss Bimbo, which is allegedly geared towards the 'tween set.

Msnbc.com would like to know what Newsviners think of Miss Bimbo. Is it really a threat to the children? Do you think it's sincerely geared toward 'tweens or is that just a marketing ploy to create buzz -- and traffic?

Don't blame Miss Bimbo

Associated Press

Mon Mar 31

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{"commentId":1639925,"authorDomain":"jchri66"}

Jack-260773

When I look around today I see women in their 30's, 40's and 50's acting like they are in their 20's. This website is making fun of all those idiots that can't deal with their age. The real threat to the kids are these parents. This is a classic example of Hamlet. You show stupidity to the people by portraying them in entertainment to them, works every time. Look how much these people have gotten upset about it. No one likes facing the reality of how strange their actions are.

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#1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:09 PM EDT

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sarah-350154

i am sorry but i disagree with what your saying , it is todays models such as paris hilton and that but miss bimbo is just promoting being like them. that is wrong. this site is PROMOTING it not making them it . so if they toned it down it would be fine maybe take off the surgery.

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#1.1 - Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:22 AM EDT

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Trish-260795

Would you promote a racist Web site that promotes, say, white entertainers in black face? How about a site that shows degrading Aunt Jemima-type of images? Wouldn't you howl if you saw a Web site that targeted Muslim children with insulting, stereotypical images?
Then why, why, why would anybody promote this disgusting page?

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#2 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:58 PM EDT

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linda92595

To say that this website is dangerous to little girls is complete nonsense. It is the responsibility of the parents to raise their children, not the Internet or the general public. If the parents don't know that their child is viewing this sites and others like it they are not doing their jobs as parents. I know what my sons access on the web, and talk to them about avoiding things I don't want them to see.

This is like those stupid people who believe that listen to Marilyn Manson or other music makes kids violent. If the kids are that messed up the parents screwed up not the singers.

This falls under the Personal Responsibility category. Parents need to raise their children instead of griping about things.

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3 votes

#3 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:24 PM EDT

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LindaTwo

I truly believe that parents have a responsibility to keep their "children" safe and out of harms way, BUT, I also believe that the media has more of a responsibility. The media which includes all forms of media that is in our faces every single day and has the power to encourage young ones to chose a path not in their best interests. Why should 'they' not shoulder part of that responsibility? Why do they think up ways to make it so difficult for parents to do their jobs when it comes to raising children? It seems that parents are constantly on the run you might say to try to catch up with and prevent the nasty and blatant harmful 'sites' thrown our children's way. Parents have enough to contend with to try and raise our children well without losing the battle over these unwanted and totally useless websites. Not to mention the trash they show on TV and in the movies. Have we just given up and feel it's easier to accept it rather than do something about it?

I would write to your Congressmen and tell them to get off their seats and own up to their responsibility to the citizens who are paying their salaries and generate laws that will help us out. It's not all the parent's fault.

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#3.1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:21 PM EDT

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lilorphant

And what sort of law would prevent kids from going on a site like that? There is only one law. The law the parents lay down.

I don't need Congress telling me how to raise my kids, and I don't need to protect the varying ages of my kids from every slur they might hear or read. But then my daughter just read Steinbeck's East of Eden, so I suspect most people would be offended by that.

Obviously, if a kid is seven years old and has unlimited access to the internet there are far worse images she may come by. Suppose parents who don't police their kids properly get fined?

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#3.2 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 6:30 PM EDT

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C. Sutton

Being the mother of 4 daughters (17,29,34,36) I'm appalled! Any names, words, terms of endearment that refer to a girl or woman such as Sweet Potato, Bimbo, Hussy, etc. are YOU insane? We shouldn't even have to comment, it should be a given that they would be considered disrespectful, dishonorable, unchristian, and I could go on! It's tough enough to raise girls to womanhood based on 'normal' standards without all the new ways the media, via internet, press, etc. decides to mastermind 'trash' and call it 'helping to sculptor and groom' our young impressionable women. What ever happened to morality? Frankly, when my daughters were growing up I BANNED TV, it was a lot of trash then and now it's become unthinkable what's happening...talk about Collateral Damage...why should a young girl or woman even want to grow up with morals or integrity, it's so, what would YOU call it, PASSE?

God Help Us!
Silently Weeping

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6 votes

#4 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:31 PM EDT

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Michael-260966

In an age where a greater number of women go to college and obtain advanced degrees, teen pregnancy/rape/violence is on the decline nationwide, people are marrying later-and-later in life, etc. I'm not convinced that 'the sky is falling' here. Young gals 'used' to Idolize Paris and Brittney and now they serve as a perfect example of what NOT to do with one's life- they have become the American Woman's Anti-role-model. If this isn't a positive cultural phenomenon, then you can't see the forest through the trees.

But with freedom/empowerment/options comes responsibility - freedom to embrace or reject society's mores and culture as one sees fit. Ms. Weeping has somehow abdicated this responsibility to her daughters, three of whom are 30 or older? At what age do her daughters get to be and act as adults, free to make their own decisions? Are we to sanitize LIFE for fear that someone might 'get the wrong impression'? I don't see very much in the way of a 'cultural groundswell' that is rapidly transforming women into bimbos. Instead, I see the complete opposite occuring, but that never seems to abate the 'Mommy Brigades' out there from getting upset over a website that has little bearing on how women and girls make choices about their lives.

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5 votes

#4.1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:17 PM EDT

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Yvonne-261019

OMG. please tell me your not serious? well, it is FACT that most people get their information by TV which is one of the MOST UNRELIABLE sources we have. So i can see how you might actually believe what you wrote there, but ANY way, contrary to your belief (and i happend to be well aware of this coming from the job i have) teen pregnancy is not on the decline, honey. The decline on RApe is severely minimal, and unfortumately impressionable young minds as of late dont make the distinction between bad choices and bad luck. Millions still look up to the real bimbos out there, (like brittany spears) and just think "oh, well she was stupid cause she got caught". instead of remembering that had she not made the dumb choices in the first place then there wouldnt have been anything for her to get 'caught' on. Do a little research and realize that kids minds today are conditioned and warpped almost from BIRTH! its makes no sence to think things of this nature are harmless. And while teens (not 8 and 9 year olds) should be given some benefit of the doubt and alittle trust, you still have to remember they are KIDS and wont always make the best decision which is why kids are given PARENTS! sometimies you do need to 'shelter' them and second guess their decisions. If your not there to help them then why are you there? Your not a parent if you just have kids living with you. You are supposed to be responsible for them! WAKE THE HELL UP!!!

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1 vote

#4.2 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:51 PM EDT

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kristy s

if miss bimbo.com is a threat what about barbie .com . common people yous are so worried about proctecting our kids your are missing the big picture here . yea these websites exsplode women but it is made to be fun not hurt the kids . i have my kids on barbie .com they have the same things with the clothes and the nails and the hair and interests in shopping and being popular in magizine photo and to be a model and to decorate the nails .

look at the dolls that matel sells and the barbie logo on it omg that is nothing they look like little prosatues i think but i go out to buy it for the girls because that is what little girls play with and watch dvd's with brats and barbies on it . so what a company or a person has this website it could be worse i was on the web site and it is nothing to get people up in arms about it is the same as the bratz website and the barbie website. minus the eating diet pills that was a bit exstream but common now . we protect the girls this much they are going to run out when they are older to get a tatoo and a couple peircings and people are going to say omg what is going on in that house . i was on miss bimbo.com i was on it for 2 hours with my kids i seen nothing offenceive about the site . human rights activists are getting a bit exsttream what is safe for our kids and what is not.

ladies and gentalmen with open minds we brought these kids in this world don't you think we have a choice to say what they can or can not watch or play with like games and toys and tv shows why is a website any different . i seen 114,589 people were on that site that seems to be popular to me. nothing to get freaked out about . The republicans and democrates in washington think oh no it is voilent or iot will exsploset or offset our young kids into thinking they can be bimbo's that is not true these kids are minors until the age of 18 or what ever age that makes them legal adults . with values in the home and the parents buying clothes they think is suitable who cares it is a website .

and cracking down on them or embrasseing them is takeing there admendement of freedom of speech away and freedom of press this is not written down on paper but it still the thought and the point this is the 21 century the age of the internet and cell phones and ipods get a grip msn and get a grip to all the media that is blowing this out of porportion relax it is a website . drink a capichino and relax drive to the local star bucks and get a decafe sounds like you may need it .

get with the times with kids shows like zoey 101 and shopping at the retail stores with kids clothes looking way to mature for our kids . it is all around us sex and vidoes and what looks cool and what does not . deebs and nerds to the easy going kids to the traps and bimbos as they get older they will find there own personalities until then leave the 7 to 16 year olds alone and worry about bigger things like the war on terror or world hunger , or world peace . a stupid website like this makes the media blow things out of porportion because that is what they are paid to do blow everything out of control what it really is .

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#5 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:36 PM EDT

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J. T. Hughes

I have a six year old daughter and would use this site as a point of departure for conversations about these very real behaviors. (On the off chance she ever finds/begins using it...) I see a lot of parents (and cultures) sticking their heads in the sand instead of facing the world head on with all its possibilities (and dangers) and getting realistic about living in it. Knowledge is power, and denial or censorship or wacky legislation will not change the human condition. Better that kids learn about these things from people who care about them -- and maybe even have some fun doing it. better to be a virtual bimbo than a real one...

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#6 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:53 PM EDT

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Lindsay-260830

Its just a game people! Little boys run around with toy guns and crash trucks into each other but nobody ever says anything about that. Sheltering kids form certain things only makes it worse. Because then when they do find out about it they over do it and get in trouble or end up dead. Kids are supposed to scrape their knees. Let them have a little fun!!!!!!!!

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#7 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:00 PM EDT

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Eduardo Gonzalez

Does Sweet Potato contain Adult Content?
if so, the FBI must penalize the site and arrest the responsible

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#8 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:12 PM EDT

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lilorphant

Does newsvine have adult content? Seriously, any adult content little girls would come across would probably bore them to death. Girls like makeup, clothes and fashion, so I could see how they might want to play on it, not really "getting" a lot of other stuff on it.

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1 vote

#8.1 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 6:32 PM EDT

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RJW

This site will only hurt the child if your child is a follower. We as parents know what kind of child we have. So if you see that your child tends to do what others do. I say keep them far away from this site. A parent needs to play the game first to see if they think it's just fun or will it harm their child. If you think it will harm your child. Block the site. Too easy.

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#9 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:21 PM EDT

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Sherry-260844

If you teach your daughter that only her looks matter and nothing else then the term "bimbo" is right on!! If all you do is cater to your looks and nothing else, then you are a bimbo!

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1 vote

#10 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:26 PM EDT

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Wolf-307205

Sherry, you are absolutely right. I couldn't have worded it better myself. You are right on target. Keep up the good work. I'm behind you 1000%. With the outlook and attitude you have, I've got your back covered. E-mail me any time.

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1 vote

#10.1 - Sat Jun 7, 2008 2:15 AM EDT

{"commentId":1640469,"authorDomain":"SherryWhite"}

Sherry-260844

If you teach your daughter that only her looks matter and nothing else then the term "bimbo" is right on!! If all you do is cater to your looks and nothing else, then you are a bimbo!

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1 vote

#11 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:27 PM EDT

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Sally-260846

Yet another example of America "self destructing!" Children are our FUTURE, why not
do our best as adults to give them examples of the value of having Character! Life is hard
enough, let children be children!!

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1 vote

#12 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:29 PM EDT

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ryan-244815

This is hardly an example of "America 'self destructing,'" the site was created by a Frenchman, and was translated into English. The fact that we no longer put any effort into researching the truth (cough, Bush, cough) is much better evidence of "America 'self destructing.'"

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#12.1 - Sat May 31, 2008 5:36 AM EDT

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Derek Ellis

I guess those who go to this website are Bimbos themselves!

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#13 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:33 PM EDT

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AKRandy

This site is not good for children. My daughter will never be allowed to go there. And may the providers of this site, house be infested with 1,000,000 bed bugs. After all they are blood sucking parasites too!!!!!!

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#14 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:36 PM EDT

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AKRandy

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#15 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:37 PM EDT

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Jules-260855

why would any mother of a young girl let her child on this website. Young girls have enough to contend with these days without a web site like this making them feel bad about their bodies and thinking the words like bimbo, tramp are ok things to be called. There are enough anorexic girls today without a web site promoting the idea. Wouldn't be surprised if the person who made the web site hates women.

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#16 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:37 PM EDT

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Linda-260871

Well my opinion is the opposite of C. Sutton I don't think the problem is a web site, the problem is our entire culture. You can blame a web site all you want but it is nothing but a commentary on what is already at the heart of our pop culture. This is how all the women/girls in movies, TV and magazines behave in fiction and real life. I am not worried by my daughter trying to be like paper doll what I am worried about is my daughter emulating our new crop of Disney approved Tween stars. Who dress, act, party, and get plastic surgery like adults. They may say they are christian, saving themselves for marriage or what ever else their publicist tell them to say but by there very own actions(Isn't 16 year old Zoey 101 star pregnant and scrambling to get her GED) tell a different story.

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#17 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:56 PM EDT

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Chas-260876

C. Sutton.
I TOTALLY agree. I don't have kids , but just to see what the kids (especially girls) are exposed to in this country is OUTRAGEOUS! It's like we WANT our little girls to grow up to self centered little bimbos...like that is really gonna help them. We as a community and country need to WISE up!
I'm so glad I'm an adult! ( I NEVER thought I'd say THAT!.. EVER!) - it must be hard for a kid (and parent) these days trying to navigate through all this C- R- A- P! We are not progressing anymore; it's like smut is the norm...so,so,sosad!

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#18 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:03 PM EDT

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scarlettohara

Since when do we turn to 20-something males for a barometer of what is right for our young daughters?! Doesn't make much sense, does it?!

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2 votes

#19 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:09 PM EDT

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scarlettohara

Since when do we turn to 20-something males for a barometer of what is right for our young daughters?! Doesn't make much sense, does it?!

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2 votes

#20 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:10 PM EDT

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scarlettohara

Since when do we turn to 20-something males for a barometer of what is right for our young daughters?! Doesn't make much sense, does it?!

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1 vote

#21 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:11 PM EDT

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Schwab

I don't know...it seems to be quite educational:

Nicolas Jacquart, the 23-year-old London web designer who created it, 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 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."

I'm just glad someone has stepped up to the plate to teach our children how to take care of their bimbos.

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5 votes

#22 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:14 PM EDT

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cynna66

I don't blame any particular medium for influencing young girls ideas. What it really all boils down to is what do YOU allow in your home as a parent of a young child? How effective are you in teaching your child how to have self-respect, morals, ethics, etc? Truth is, a lot of parents tend to be so wrapped up in other things that children are left to their own devices and then are driven solely by their peers and the media they are exposed to. It's so much easier for a parent to blame THEIR failings on television, the internet, etc rather than realize their own short-comings and what they, in fact, have allowed to enter their children's environments.

While I certainly don't approve of female-deprecating websites like these, I don't blame them on the demoralization of young girls. If the parents were doing their job, they wouldn't have access in the first place. We live in a country that supposedly supports free speech and free enterprise... and unfortunately, web sites like these are also covered there.

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6 votes

#23 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:14 PM EDT

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Jivatman

We live in a country that supposedly supports free speech and free enterprise... and unfortunately, web sites like these are also covered there.

Yes, but do you really think corporations should have the right to free speech?

Corporate personhood is one of the deepest perversions of liberty and subversions of our constitution that has occured. The bill of rights should never, ever have applied to corporations and allowed them free speech, right against self incrimination, privacy, lobby the government etc. This should be a free society, not a Corporatocracy.

The States should have the right to deprive these rights if they wish... I'd hope that their use would not be neccessary, but the very power to do so would keep them more honest than they are. Their very nature is to pervert democracy. Combine this with the Fed's Extant, and growing, control over the currency and economics, you have a recipe for tyranny.

The states have very few rights or powers anymore... The tenth amendment delegated all rights not in the constitution to either the states, or the people respectively. But instead, they're just whores to the Federal Corporatocracy.

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2 votes

#23.1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:52 PM EDT

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scarlettohara

I hope all these boys have daughters someday! Like all the letches of yesteryear! Download a song by John Lennon called 'Woman is the Nig-er of the world"! He's the only man who actually viewed women as human beings instead of holes to stick it in, guys! Picture your mother being sexually exploited or your sister or your girlfriend or wife. This is what you're promoting by debasing females. And the attitute, "It's not a big deal," is what got one of my friends gang raped when she was 19. Her boyfriend tied her up, then had all of his friends take a turn and tell her not to cry because it wasn't a big deal what they were doing. So Bimbo isn't a big deal, either?! Yes it is. How about a site called how to turn your little brother gay? Angry yet guys? Good, now you know what it feels like to be female!

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#24 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:17 PM EDT

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BlaiseP

John Lennon is not alone. Many other men, including myself, have always believed as goes the lot of women, so goes the lot of the world itself.

It is an unfortunate truth that women are far crueler to each other than many men can possibly imagine. Peer pressure in girls is a terrifying force for evil and degradation. What is never said, in all this rot about Wicked Men is the fact that Wicked Women are also waist deep in this whole cycle of degradation. Women are paid ten to one hundred times what men are paid to do the same pornography film. A good deal of that industry is by and for women. Let us be sure we cast the blame about where it is deserved, for boys have become just as sexualized and objectified as girls. The only difference is which side of the counter the stuff is sold.

Teen Beat and the like prepare young girls to look at boys as sex objects. They graduate to Cosmopolitan, which breathlessly tells women how to perform all manner of degrading acts, in a magazine featuring rail-thin drug-addicted models. The unreality of Harlequin Romances, especially the spicier ones with more than a ripped bodice and trembling thighs and a ride to Paradise on Page 43 are just as pernicious as this Miss Bimbo stuff and it's all out in the open.

It is the blankest hypocrisy to say women don't have their own share of the blame here. I grow weary of making this point, again and again. Women are just as heartless, just as stupid, just as horny and self-destructive as any man. The only difference is, when men do it, we're called Vile Beasts. When women do it, it's called Sexual Empowerment.

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1 vote

#24.1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:33 PM EDT

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Sandra jobba

Hi Umm I'm sorry But I'm 19 and its not the stuff on computers or tv that have boys grow up to be rapists and it doesn't make little girls in to whores or sluts its other things like human responsibility I new some one who was raped and they didn't have computers in toughs days so sorry its the environment these kids grow up in sorry to say it but its the truth if that child father or other family member was someone who did that stuff then ya the grand child or the child themselves will grow up thinking that thats the way men are supposed to act. And I Grew up listing to Marlyn Manson and im not violent yea i like dark clothings and stuff but thats my choice doesn't mean im going to go start killing its called personality everyone has one oh and i also grew up on Buffy the vampire slayer and yes i watched shows that had sex in them does that mean im doing to grow up a sex addict? no it doesn't so parents stop blaming the tv and computer and Grow up

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#24.2 - Thu Apr 3, 2008 11:02 PM EDT

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unbekannt1137

Please learn to form a sentence.

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2 votes

#24.3 - Fri Apr 4, 2008 9:07 PM EDT

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Roy Batty

Please learn to form a sentence.

That's the way 19-year-olds talk, fer sure. :-)

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2 votes

#24.4 - Sat Apr 5, 2008 2:03 AM EDT

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Crayon-269175

BlaiseP, I find your comment misogynistic and full of gross generalizations.

Women may be paid more for pornography, but consider all of the other professions in which men are paid more. Yeah, pretty much all of them. Pornography is an exception because there is more of a demand for it. From whom? Not women. How about those "Wicked Men?"

We certainly do not live in a matriarchal culture and many of the dominant institutions in our culture are run by men. So the lot of women and the lot of the world is definitely not the same.

Not all women read Teen Beat and Cosmo, and even those who do don't see men as sex objects. Don't play the victim. There are still periodicals geared toward men that illustrate females as sex objects far more than those that do the opposite.

A study was done in the late 80s called "Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature" by Janice Radway that says that when women read romance novels it acts as a form of escape and helps to diffuse domestic tension. I would highly recommend it for your perusal.

Sure, SOME women are skanky sluts. Sure, SOME men are pigs. But it's really closed-minded to make generalizations about either sex. Your best bet is to treat women with respect and maybe they'll show some to you in return.

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#24.5 - Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:11 AM EDT

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AKRandy

May a million bed bugs infest Nicolas Jacquarts bed. After all the have a lot in common, BOTH are blood suckers.................

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#25 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 3:20 PM EDT

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