Sitter’s Checklist: Sweet Valley High, Bratz, Bimbos, and Who’s to blame
Update: Miss Bimbo off her diet pills.The boys behind missbimbo.com had second thoughts about the messages they were sending their players:
As a result of this rather surprising media attention we have decided to remove the option of purchasing diet pills from the game. We apologise to any players whom this may inconvenience but we feel in light of this weeks proceedings it is the correct action to take.
Can a Bratz doll represent a strong role model? I’m going with “no,” but would like to hear the arguments.
Relaunched Sweet Valley High books have thinner characters. Thanks to Facebook PEM Fan Juliet Ray. Why would Random House a) even think to do this and b) point it out in a press release?
Celebrating Families attacks consumer culture in the U.K. Psychologists Maye Taylor and Helen Sanderson believe parents are unfairly blamed in the media:
They are getting all the responsibility for what is being claimed as a breakdown in family life and all the experts are telling them they are doing it wrong. We are both psychologists and both parents and we thought we would fight back.”
Good idea!
March 31st, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Wow — that press release on the body size is just impossibly bizarre — not that a “perfect size 6″ is necessarily a better message — my word. Is there an imperfect size 6? A perfect size 14? Who the hell came up with that formulation anyway.
YA lit for girls is in such a sad state. With all the crud out there, how to encourage girls to read books that present a life less narrow than Hannah Montana? It seems it’s all about the mall everywhere you look, even in books.
Good for Miss Bimbo — now, perhaps they can change everything else about the site, including the name?
April 5th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
That Sweet Valley thing is mind-blowing. I keep waiting for someone to pinch me and I discover that this is all a dream.
Your coverage here is excellent by the way, love this blog.