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Bimbo is a slang term for a conventionally attractive, sexualized, naive, and unintelligent woman.^[1] The term was originally used in the United States as early as 1919 for an unintelligent or brutish man.^[2]

Bimbo is a slang term for a conventionally attractive, sexualized, naive, and unintelligent woman. The term was originally used in the United States as early as 1919 for an unintelligent or brutish man. As of the early 21st century, the 'stereotypical bimbo' appearance became that of an attractive woman. Fred was talking about legal concerns around making professional machinima in Second Life and not NFTs (this was back in 2009), but the underlying principle applies: If you create a Second Life screenshot, Linden Lab's gives you the right to sell it, including as an NFT. Hey girls, the sexiest second life body shows its perfect curves, this video is dedicated to all of you who always love being the sexiest women every day.

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As of the early 21st century, the 'stereotypical bimbo' appearance became that of an attractive woman. It is often used to describe women who are blond, have curvaceous figures, heavy makeup, and revealing clothing. It is commonly associated with 'the dumb blonde' stereotype.^[3]

In 2017 the movement 'The Bimbo Movement' was founded by self proclaimed bimbo and adult star Alicia Amira,^[4] 'the woman most responsible for popularizing the idea of reclaiming hyper-femininity.'^[5] in order to destigmatise women who are bimbos and to reclaim the term 'bimbo'. The Bimbo Movement is a movement to empower women to be proud to embrace their femininity and take ownership of their sexuality and by doing so reclaiming the word 'bimbo' and fight back against the misogynistic connotations the term 'bimbo' had been associated with. The bimbo movement is an internationally recognised women's right movement consisting of hundreds of thousands of self-proclaimed bimbos working to end stigma.^[6]

History[edit]

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The word bimbo derives from the Italianbimbo,^[7] a masculine-gender term that means '(male) baby' or 'young (male) child' (the feminine form of the Italian word is bimba). Use of this term began in the United States as early as 1919, and was a slang word used to describe an unintelligent^[8] or brutish^[9] man, as in Portuguese.

It was not until the 1920s that the term bimbo first began to be associated with females in popular culture. In 1920, Frank Crumit,^[10]Billy Jones, and Aileen Stanley all recorded versions of 'My Little Bimbo Down on the Bamboo Isle', with words by Grant Clarke and music by Walter Donaldson. The songs uses the term 'bimbo' to describe an island girl of questionable virtue. The 1929 silent filmDesert Nights uses it to describe a wealthy female crook, and in The Broadway Melody, an angry Bessie Love calls a chorus girl a bimbo. The first use of its female meaning cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is dated 1929, from the scholarly journal American Speech, where the definition was given simply as 'a woman'.

In the 1940s, bimbo was still being used to refer to both men and women, as in, for example the comic novel Full Moon by P. G. Wodehouse who wrote of 'bimbos who went about the place making passes at innocent girls after discarding their wives like old tubes of toothpaste'.^[11]

The term died out again for much of the 20th century until it became popular again in the 1980s and 1990s, with political sex scandals.^[12] As bimbo began to be used increasingly for females, exclusively male variations of the word began to surface, like mimbo and himbo, a backformation of bimbo, which refers to an unintelligent, but attractive, man.^[7]

In 2017 the term was reintroduced when self proclaimed bimbos around the world joined forces and created the 'bimbo movement'^[13] in order to end stigma about bimbos and to 'reclaim' the word 'bimbo' proving that hyperfemininity and female sexuality is power. The bimbo movement was founded by Alicia Amira,^[14] self proclaimed bimbo & adult star,^[15] on the notion of empowering women to be proud to embrace their femininity and take ownership of their sexuality.^[16], The bimbo movement attempts to end stigma about bimbos, sex workers and plastic surgery.

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By the early 2020s, the term re-entered usage by way of some members of Generation Z seeking to further reclaim the pejorative, such as the 'BimboTok' community on the social media platform TikTok, where users engaged in stereotypical hyperfeminity to satirise consumerism, capitalism, and misogyny.^[17]

The term is sometimes associated with men or women who dye their hair blond, indicating that physical attractiveness is more important to them than other, non-physical traits^[3] and as an extension to 'the dumb blonde' stereotype.^[3]

Usage in popular culture[edit]

Music[edit]

• In 1930, in an episode from the Dogville Comedies series of short films, entitled The Dogway Melody, one of the dogs portraying a sultan in a play, remarks on the 'boatload of bimbos' he has for his harem.
• In 1953, Jim Reeves recorded the song 'Bimbo'.
• In 1974, Bimbo Jet released their hit 'El Bimbo'.
• In 1997, the Danish band Aqua used the word bimbo in their major hit 'Barbie Girl,' using the dumb blonde archetype as well ('I'm a blonde bimbo girl.'). It was noted by Mattel in the legal conflict against Aqua and their record company for the representation of the popular Barbie doll.^[18]
• In 2001, the Swedish pop rock band Lambretta released a song called 'Bimbo'.
• In 2012, Bridgit Mendler used the word bimbo in the song 'Forgot to Laugh'.
• In 2012, Every Time I Die released a song called 'Underwater Bimbos from Outer Space'.

Internet[edit]

• A beauty contest game called Miss Bimbo is an online game in which players attempt to use virtual characters to win contests, earn IQ points and impress virtual boys, through makeovers, clothing, exercise, and the purchase of operations such as facelifts and breast implants. Although the game itself does not promote such activities in real life and is often viewed as a parody, it has received condemnation in the media from parent groups, especially in Europe.^[19]

Television[edit]

• The term 'mimbo', to mean a male bimbo, was first coined in the episode 'The Stall' of American sitcom Seinfeld.^[20] in the context of Elaine Benes's boyfriend, Tony (Dan Cortese).
• In The Amazing World of Gumball's season 2 episode 'The Storm', Gumball tells Carmen he isn't a 'cheap, reliable bimbo'. However, only in the United States dubbing was this word replaced with 'coward' despite the closed captions exposing the word when on.
• In Hells Kitchen Gordon Ramsay referred to two customers as bimbos when they asked for some olive topping.
• In the sitcom series How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014), the term refers to the numerous girls Ted Mosby and Barney Stinson used to date.
• The character of Betty Boop (1930-1939) owned a dog she had named 'Bimbo'

Politics[edit]

In American politics, the word was used in the 1990s during Bill Clinton's sexual misconduct allegations, leading to the invention of the term 'Bimbo eruptions' to refer to political sex scandals.^[21] The expression was also used in a 2014 report^[22] in which Colin Powell explained his reluctance to vote for Hillary Clinton in light of her husband's continued affairs with 'bimbos'.

After the first 2015 Republican Presidential Debate, Donald Trump re-tweeted a message calling debate moderator and Fox News host Megyn Kelly a 'bimbo' via Twitter.^[23]This took place after Kelly asked Trump a question that referenced his television show The Apprentice from season 6 in 2005. Shortly afterwards, Stephen Richter of The Globalist published an opinion piece in which he accused Trump of being a bimbo, noting the original definition of bimbo as 'an unintelligent or brutish male'.^[24]

Quotations[edit]

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• A bimbo is a woman who is not pretty enough to be a model, not smart enough to be an actress, and not nice enough to be a poisonous snake. —P. J. O'Rourke
• · 2004: Fey [..] makes hay with the thought processes of a purebred bimbo — The New Yorker, 10 May 2004.

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• She is the first doll to prove that you can be sexual and beautiful but not a bimbo.^[25]
• · 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter III:

And one had to remember that most ofthe bimbos to whom Roberta Wickham had been giving the bird throughthe years had been of the huntin', shootin' and fishin' type, fellows who hadmore or less shot their bolt after saying 'Eh, what?' and slapping their legwith a hunting crop.

• · 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIII:

Isn't he the bimbo who took thebread out of the mouths of the Thursday Review people? Chuck theblighter out of the window and we want to see him bounce.

See also[edit]

Regional[edit]

• Valley girl and Essex girl carry similar connotations to a young bimbo or 'bimbette', but are non-synonymous.
• Kogal or, more correctly, kogyaru and ganguro carry similar connotations as a Japanese version of a 'valley girl' or bimbo.
• Barbie is the equivalent word for Bimbo in many Hispanic countries.
• 'Loosu ponnu', meaning 'Crazy girl', is a stereotype in Tamil cinema that is regarded as the equivalent of the dumb blond archetype^[26][27]
• In German, Bimbo is exclusively a racist slur for people with dark skin.^[28]

References[edit]

1. ^Tom Dalzell (2009), 'bimbo', The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English, Routledge, p. 75, ISBN978-0-415-37182-7
2. ^Oxford dictionary of word origins. Cresswell, Julia, 1950-, Oxford University Press. (Second ed.). New York. 9 September 2010. ISBN978-0199547937. OCLC663824301.CS1 maint: others (link)
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9. ^'Slang of 1920s'. Archived from the original on 18 June 2010. Retrieved 23 June 2010.
10. ^Frank Crumit (20 October 2016). 'My Little Bimbo Down on the Bamboo Isle' – via Internet Archive.
11. ^Diarmaid Ó Muirithe, Words We Use: The Meaning of Words And Where They Come From, Gill & Macmillan Ltd, Oct 31, 2006
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16. ^‘'This Morning, ITV' [7]
17. ^Dickson, E. J.; Dickson, E. J. (23 November 2020). 'In 2020, the Bimbo Is Back'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
18. ^'Aqua Now Faces Lawsuit Over 'Barbie Girl''. MTV News. 12 September 1997. Archived from the original on 24 February 2009. Retrieved 23 June 2010.
19. ^'Parents upset over online Miss Bimbo game for children'. Taipei Times. 30 March 2008. Retrieved 1 April 2008.
20. ^20, willow; Reply, 2009 at 3:39 pm (2 November 2009). 'mimbo'.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
21. ^Grant Barrett, Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang , Oxford University Press, Apr 21, 2006
22. ^'Colin Powell wrote in an email that Bill Clinton was 'd---ing bimbos''. Business Insider. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
23. ^'Donald Trump late-night angry-tweets Megyn Kelly, and it is epic'.
24. ^'Donald Trump Outs Himself as 'Bimbo''. 4 April 2016.
25. ^Bogart, Anne (14 March 1990). 'A Doll for the 90's: Beautiful but No Bimbo'. The New York Times. Retrieved 22 October 2015.
26. ^''10 Enradhukulla'… A slipshod road movie'. 21 October 2015.
27. ^Dundoo, Sangeetha Devi (17 January 2018). 'Women in Telugu cinema: Some common sense please?' – via www.thehindu.com.
28. ^https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Bimbo