A Twitter campaign against a children’s plastic surgery game that tells players that liposuction makes people ‘slim and beautiful’ forced Apple to remove the app from its platform last night.
The app, which could be downloaded from Apple iTunes, instructs children as young as nine to perform plastic surgery on the image of a woman who has ‘so much extra weight that no diet can help her’ encouraging users to make cuts on problem areas and ‘suck out extra fat.’
More than 4000 Twitter users rallied behind a women’s rights group that called the app sexist and damaging to young women’s self esteem.
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