A female Australian mobile game developer thinks they do, which is why she created "The Coolest Girl In School" The game is provoking parental outcry Down Under. From the game developer's MySpace page:

The Coolest Girl In School is DEAD!!! Now it's your turn to take up the throne...

Lie, bitch, flirt your way to the top of the high school ladder. Become the Coolest Girl in School.

Coolest Girl in School is Grand Theft Auto for girls.

What does every girl across the globe have in common? At some point, every girl wishes she could be the Coolest Girl in School.

Coolest Girl in School lets players live out their high school fantasies.

Experiment with fashion! Experiment with drugs! Experiment with your sexuality! Cut class! Spread rumors! But try to avoid dying of embarrassment- literally!

In Coolest Girl in School fashion and communication reign supreme.

Working out what the hell to wear and answering hilarious quizzes makes or breaks you.

Students are labeled according to the sub-culture they subscribe to, teachers exist to be manipulated and parents ensure the constant threat of social death.

Nobody said being the Coolest Girl in School would be easy…

Hmmm. Sounds like the game is full of mixed messages -- being a "mean girl" wins the game, i. e. "lie, bitch and flirt your way to the top of the high school ladder," but according to the article about the game in The Daily Telegraph, risky behaviors, i.e. drinking, drugs, etc. do have consequences. So if the argument is that Grand Theft Auto allows boys to live out their fantasies of mass murder and beating up prostitutes, than the Coolest Girl in School lets "good girls" live out their fantasies of being "bad" and popular? The thing about GTA, while I don't endorse it at all for teens, is that it is really a fantasy scenario (albeit a violent and misogynistic one) for most of the people who play it. The Coolest Girl In School sounds a lot like high school -- do girls need to play a game to remind them of high school's depressing social hierarchy?

Source: Mobile Youth

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