Well, I totally sent that in going for a approach on this game being motion-senstive, but hey, I guess this works, too.

This is very interesting but is totally overshadowed by the hilarious tags.
"Where is your gloria Steinem now". I'm looking at you.

I think the girl toys I hate the most are those Bratz dolls. Seriously, whose idea was it to market slutty looking dolls to 10 year old girls?

"Yea, we can teach the next generation of girls how to be materialistic sluts and worship Paris Hilton with these dolls, It's gold! We'll make millions"

OK, this is sad, but I have played this game THROUGHLY. I have had to demo this game about 500 times now. Quite frankly, it is one of the better plug and play games. However, it is one giant girl sterotype, and because it is sold to young girls who think this is "real", it makes it all the more alarming. Its kind of like that barbie doll episode from the simpsons, where lisa realizes they are bad messages.

However, this isn't any different from all the other girl toys out. Anyone who works at Wallmart or Toys R Us can tell you that the bratz line of dolls are crazy popular, and they are really a bunch of skank pre-teen hookers.

As for the game itself, you make "you" ingame, which is really a sprite with different cloths and you do "chores" etc... it uses an IR remote and you sit it on/beside your TV.

You do realize Eliza, that the game is marketed to 6-8yr olds... so not really "girl gamers"

Well I think this game goes towards all that Sims loving females out there (I know quite a few)... the really cool & smart girls can live a fulfilling life with WoW or CS, because the avatars are there... :p.

I defy your stereotype. With my sisters it's all about control. Really, it's sorta scary.

All I can think of when I look at the expression on the girl on the packaging is " My mind is an utter void, PLease fill it with something quickly before my ginormous head implodes"

This sounds like a solid educational tool for girls. It teaches them the essentials: distract yourself by looking good, consume and work. When you've got a generation of parents so bad at parenting they can't even hold a family together anymore, we need things like this just to raise viable individuals. Onwards and upwards!

A few years back i would have totally agreed with your critics on that thing,also on bratz or others like barbie,like gretzky said:
"Yea, we can teach the next generation of girls how to be materialistic sluts and worship Paris Hilton with these dolls, It's gold! We'll make millions",that´s what i thought,too"
(well,Paris Hilton wasn´t famous back then because she hadn´t shown her titties, slut or whole porn adventure video in public yet, but yeah,i thought many toys and games aimed at girls would be tailored to teach girls how to become stupidious materialistic sluts anyway ;) )

I changed my mind on such things a few years back though;i see such products more relaxed (so as havigng less infuence than i thought before) now.

I played lots of gta,did that make me want to become a gangster?
No.

What i want to say with this is that imho tv,games,movies and toys can only affect the character of a person enough to really affect his behaviour as far as that character isn´t ironed and strenghtened out enough yet by social environment (family,friends,teachers),their life experience or their genes.
These factors taking part in shaping a character are way more important; if all of those went wrong, a barbie toy won´t help either; if all of those went right, a barbie toy alone won´t make your daughter want to be paris anyway.

So while i´m still no fan of such toys and other consumable things coming from a media or marketing machine which make girls look all flat,restricted and dumb; playing/consuming those won´t alone make a girl become THAT sadly limitied in mindset and behaviour.

Sure,the media and toys seem to picture the ideal aim for eeveryone should be "the rich guy/girl become sexy, earning millions of cash with pretty much no work and getting each and every gadget/toy available on the market consuming it alone and not caring how he fucks off friends and family by acting dumb and unsocial all day.
(Its easy to make people like the idea off fucking off everyone,doing anthing without any social thoughts and still doing awesome in money,sex and personal life ;) )

Well,that publicised picture doesn´t help, but its still up to parents how much time they spend with their children and what they teach em or not.

No one can seriously say this toy/advertising/movie/game alone turns my daughter/son evil. Well, Jack Tompson and people alike can but well,that´s another story...

are you saying Eliza that games have a negative and influential effect on the kids its geared towards?

Who sits on their TV to play a game?

*phew* it's a good thing us men never see any games that reinforce male sterotypes.

'This post merely presents another in a long line of "video games for girls" that should fill you with nausea.'

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

In all seriousness, not only have dubfoolio and tomsamson hit their respective nails square on the head, but I must also interject. While it is both sexist and retarded to promote this most obnoxious and loathsome stereotype to little girls, at what point do we draw a line in reinforcing male vs. female stereotypes? Should girls be raised and treated exactly as boys, and vice versza, regardless of the glaringly obvious physiological differences? Where do we stop?

Well at least from Scazza we know the game has decent play. It does make me sad, though. From 6-8 year olds do girl and boy gamers grow, but is durn hard to find games female kids in that age group want to play that aren't this kind of drek. How do I tempt them to try video and PC games if there's nothing better than this?

[exits weeping]

Chilly, when my sister was 8, I got her a collection of 101 Dalmation and Disney learning games, they were cheap but pretty entertaining (she loved lion king etc...as did I, lol). For PC, if you can show them how to do it, they might be interested...

My sister bought this game, and it isn't as bad as it sounds. From what I have seen, it is just a social "Sim-ish" world going on. She was more concerned with teh fashion aspect, doing chores and jobs to get money for some clothes, and making sure she found the cheaper cute clothes, which she tries to do in real life. She loves to play games like Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing, etc.

I thought it looked stupid until I saw

"Go to classes & try to get cool rewards for good grades."

Then I realized that I'm more excited about this than any release of the next few months -- except my version is called Persona 3.

I got this game for Christmas on time and litterly I played it (at first) more then my DS then I found out that it is the same thing over and over again!! It was kinda kewl when I opened it (acully) I had asked for it for Christmas yet didnt really want it that much I had really wanted a DS yes I am younger Person (not so compelled to say my name or age). I relized that thid game was just going to like take over my life it was just like for about a month everyday after school I would really not do my homework and play that game It was like I was obsessed and on there you have like a friend meter. On that friend meter there were 3 males that were friends and one day I noticed that one's name had 3 hearts next to it I was wondering how that happened. I relized that when I talked to him ( at school in the game) he would give me things or ask me to go to dances. this game is just one of many for young children that influnces then to have boyfriends or girlfriends. Its like a porno website for them where the can have this whold other life to compell them to do that also. this is just a very strange game that is putting american children to have this other things...

I think that this game was pretty awsome when i first played. But after reading what everybody had to say it made me think that this game really is making little children want to get older way more faster then they really need to. I mean if you think about it how many chidren do you know now that are talking about how they got a girlfreind/boyfreind. I mean seriously should parents really be willing to let there children become sluts cuase they wanted to play a video game.
well if you ask me these games are awsome but they should get rid of all the boyfreind/girlfreind crap that they put in there. I mean let the kids get older by themselves dont push them, I mean serioulsy do you want your kids to have a boyfreind/girlfreind by the time they are the age of 6?
I hope not.