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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?
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Have you even played the game?
As someone who has I can tell you that the game doesn’t ENCOURAGE drug use. If you take too many drugs you can end up in a mental institution or rehab - ie leave school and therefore lose the game.
Research and think before commenting.
People who don’t understand teenagers and their world are irrelevant to them. Preach all you want, they won’t hear you. This woman obviously gets it, and therefore, is in a position to tweak a system that no one can change. Teenagers generally don’t care about diseases that attack mostly older people, like cancer, any more than they care about being hit by a bomb in Iraq. They’re not old and they’re not in Irag - so who cares? Most teenagers are short-term thinkers. Deal with it.
I would love to read a comparison between this and ‘Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble!’
So far all DSHGiT has is a demo, though.
Typical American commentary. Uninformed, hypocritical and bland. This site is truly sickening, look right at the advertisements which sell out feminism to corporate dollar.
I bet you haven’t played the game. Go watch America’s Next Supermodel (advertised on your site)and see EVERYTHING that you claim to preach against rubbed in the faces of every girl watching the show.
Crack addict…thats tame in comparison to being a hate mongering moron blogger. The worst thing about idiot Americans like you is that you are unaware of the idea of irony.
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Hi Jess,
Holly (no) brains Owen, creator and co-producer of Coolest Girl In School here.
I find it amusing that you slam our game without ever having seen it, let alone played it.
Confessing that you ‘have no idea’ what a mobile game even is adds quite a sinister undercurrent to your article.
You ‘have no idea’ yet go on to condemn the game and personally attack me.
Suggesting I am a ‘crack addict’ is horrendous slander at its best. We don’t even have crack in Australia sweety. (You have definitely mastered the kind of bitchy behaviour you accuse me of promoting through Coolest Girl In School – we’ll have to base a character on you in the next version).
Your inaccurate post stems from an article published in Australia by a sensationalist tabloid newspaper that was then picked up by bloggers everywhere. Intelligent ones haven’t taken it as gospel. Professional ones actually give credit to the original article’s content rather than just plagerising it.
I find your moral outrage a symptom of a media illiterate society content to replace critical thinking with hysteria. It would seem your folks are wasting their precious savings sending you to NYU - if you have no concept of the word ‘research’ how will you pass?
I would like to thank you for creating by far the most amusing headline for our game* and congratulate you - you are well on your way to becoming the kind of boring, reactionary, out of touch adult that teenagers the world over despise. Predictable. Yawn…
*Despite the fact it’s a mobile game and not a ‘video game’!
Jess
I’m really unsure as to why you’re attempting to “preach” on this subject yourself.
Firstly you admit to not even knowing what a mobile phone game is(!?) then secondly you attack it without even playing or seeing the thing!
I’m no-one’s mum but Im “APPALLED” too! What kind of “crack addict idiot” posts an article about something they clearly know NOTHING about?!
And what does Holly Owen’s so called “boring ” high school experience have to do with this? This is a GAME Jess, not reality. Just like other games it deals in entertainment (and thankfully this one has had the creativity to deal in something that actually interests us girls!). A feat that Owen should be applauded for!
Do some research Jess…and HOT TIP(!)…..look up the word “irony” (because you really are making yourself look like a “total arsehole”)
can’t take a little controversy, people?
Your game’s controversial…deal with the fact that people are gonna react to it!
…and have a tiny sense of humor. Geeze.
Huh H? I think they’re loving the controversy! Who wouldnt? Looks like the reaction is just matching the outrage to me…nothing wrong with that!
Im an informed American and to me it seems to deal with issues that actually interests girls….like GTA appeals to boys? Why is this SO much more outrageous?
Yeah for Holly! Ripped you a new one! Say Jess, have you spent time in a high school lately? They don’t need outside prompting to be idiots–hormones and peer pressure seem to do the job just fine! At least Holly’s game doesn’t have them out killing cops, stealing cars, and being gangsta-want-a-be’s!
And just like TV-you don’t have to watch, or play, that which you find offensive!
Right on Edwin,
Lets tear this place apart! fuckin shitty college porky’s vs revenge of nerds mutha fuckers.
jeffrey,
if you think this place is so bad, why not just LEAVE, instead of trying to ‘tear it apart’?!
…get a hobby that doesn’t include bashing websites from the comfort of your desk chair.
I cant leave now that you’ve written to me, you’ve forced my hand SS, with your Third-Reich-chic name and bad attitude.
Plus i find this site has some fantastic articles like ‘The Scary Room-mate Chronicles’…. and ‘Drinking Games Galore’….
This is her opinion on the game based on what she knows about it. I must agree with what she is saying. Being a current student in highschool, I see the bitchy girls and what not, and especially at this age people are impressionable morons. The game DOES promote bad behaviour in females. GTA promotes bad behaviour aswell, but the only difference is it’s a game for ADULTS. Adults aren’t as impressionable (hopefully) as immature highschool students so they are less likely to act out what they see in games they play. Personally, if a girl did bitchy things to me I’d beat the shit out of her. In my opinion, it’s best not to make games catering to young (impressionable) people that promote negativity. Sure it’s all fun and games… but people are fucking retards.
well i think its bloody bullshit
wow. i’m just surprised at how angry everyone’s getting. I’m just reading this and I feel like I just have to say this: Calm down. Look, as an 8th grader (1 year before highschool) I’m gonna have to say that we aren’t exactly mentally scarred by violence in video games. We are ALL smart enough to see that maybe super soldiers going around slaughtering people isn’t reality. Also, I would just like to say that this article (and the responses that came after) were ENTIRELY hilarious to read. Thanks for the entertainment.
oh, also forgot to add this, considering the game isn’t mostly about violence: Just because we play a video game based on something morally wrong doesnt mean that is going to be what we do. I would assume that if some teenage girls play a game based on taking drugs and being slutty they wouldn’t tink “hmm, well since this game is doing it WE should listen to the game!!!”
*Despite the fact it’s a mobile game and not a ‘video game’!
I find this to be the most uninformed comment of the whole thing. It was from the dev also.
Why does this matter anyway, I have approx. 96 students in my class, about half are women and about 90 percent of them are slut and drug addicts anyway. This game points out the obvious, people do anything to be cool. Just found out a friend of mine screwed some dickhead who was going out with someone anyway, she was being a slut. I’m still nice to her but it really lowers my respect for her. And a school about 20 miles from me had to have an STD check on the eighth grade because they were having “Rainbow Parties”. Basically a blowjob fest. Highschool men have raging hormones and highschool women are the biggest skanks known to mankind. I think you should be more shocked that this game your bitching about is less graphic than public schools.
I think i read enough. I think girls in this age at high school are going through peer pressure and things they may not want to do. I mean this moblie game could show them what might or may happen if they did this or that. Still it IS a mobile game and well it can be related to video games. I haven’t really played the game so i can’t say anything about it, but what I can is that I’ve played the game called Mortal Kombat. It has gory violence, the worst you could imagine but, you don’t see people doing that now do you? Same with the game. We just see what happens on a curisoity basis. Talk all bad you want, it’s not until we talk in person I believe you.
hey, i AM a teenager, and although the writer of this article was a little harsh, i agree. i do worry about getting cancer, so i don’t smoke, and partly because it’s a disgusting habit anyways. if you’re making a game, and if you do drugs it gets you cool points, that’s fucking dumb as hell. not only are you encouraging drugs, but it shows that you can have no consequence if you try them. everybody’s reaction to drugs is different, there’s no telling what could happen on your first try of drugs. and holly, you are a moron for creating a game promoting sex and drugs so that if you have enough sex, and take just enough drugs, you can be the coolest person in high school. sure the game might make some money, but at what cost. holly = retard, plz stop making games that damage the world’s youth. p.s. i am a teen, and i would NEVER try this game.
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