(via Harlow’s Monkey and Jezebel)
By Daily Mail Reporter
The adoption clinic in a virtual Style City features girls called Pax and Maddox and a boy named Zahara after Angelina Jolie’s children.
The virtual youngsters have the same nationalities as Jolie’s with Maddox, three, said to be Cambodian and a fan of eating cockroaches.
Similarly up for grabs are Vietnamese noodle-lover Pax, five, and Ethiopian lad Zahara, four, whose favourite food is said to be guinea pig.
The adoption centre also boasts a David Banda, four, and Mercy, five, of Malawi, clearly modelled on Madonna’s adopted children.
And there is a Mongolian girl called Jamiyan – based on actor Ewan McGregor’s Mongolian four-year-old daughter – who is said to enjoy eating rats.
In even worse taste, gamers can adopt children from earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
Once they have paid the adoption fees, players style their new children in over-the-top designer gear and can then try to sell image rights for them to celebrity magazines.
They are challenged to outdo rival minxes by amassing ever more adoptive children to ‘make their family more fashionable’. Read more…
Just when you think something can’t shock or surprise you, you read this article about treating adoption like a game–a tacky, crazy, sexist, exploitative, racist, game.
Can’t type anymore–trying to wrap my head around the folks who would even THINK up this game let alone actually CREATE it and the people who PLAY it is making my brain hurt too much.
Um, Ew! Ick! I will never get used to the idea of people as commodities.
is this for real? horrifying!