Video Game Teaches Girls to be Slutty Bitches

You know how everyone’s telling teenage girls to stay away from drugs, sex, and bitchy behavior?

Well, someone wants to put a stop to all the preaching.

Coolest Girl in School, a “mobile phone based game” (a term which makes me feel old, since I have no idea what it is) is about to debut in Australia, and parents are pissed.

“Game developer and producer” Holly Owen, the (no) brains behind this new game, says that the point behind Coolest Girl is to “”lie, bitch and flirt your way to the top of the high school ladder“, a description that makes me think Owen has “cool” confused with “total asshole”.

“It’s not about glorifying bad things, it’s about giving young girls the opportunity to play around with high school.” Owen says about her horrible idea, going on to muse “It’s a pretty ironic game because things that might seem obviously cool like taking drugs and smoking might work against you because you have to go to rehab or have stinky breath when the captain of the football team comes to speak to you.”

Right. So in Owen’s world, it’s not cancer that should dissuade you from smoking, it’s the chance the captain of the football team might think your breath stinks.

What fantastic morals.

Besides opting to smoke or not to smoke, players in Coolest Girl “must choose whether to experiment with drugs, alcohol…skip school, spread rumours, [sic] bully and even fall pregnant in their effort to win the game.”

Now, I may not be anyone’s mom, but I’m appalled. What kind of crack addict idiot thinks teenage girls need any more glorification of negativity in their lives? Holly Owen must have had one boring high school experience—why else would she think getting pregnant and experimenting with drugs is just fun and games?