A Bimbo is ... disparaging ... an attractive but unintelligent, foolish or inept young woman
Then a Himbo is ... disparaging to a young man
And a Thembo is ... disparaging to a non-binary person
The definitions leave out the sexualized descriptor for Bimbo. The term was first used to describe men, and the first officially recorded female dumb blonde was Rosalie Duthe 1748 - 1830.
And what is this all about? A movement began in 2017 led by Alicia Amira who self-proclaimed herself a bimbo to "empower women to be proud to embrace their femininity."
The BimboTok community on the social media platform TikTok, is where users engage in stereotypical hyper-femininity to satirize consumerism, capitalism, and misogyny.
And who has been accused of being a bimbo in the original sense - men were originally the bimbos. It is none other than Donald Trump. Journalist Stephen Richter accused him of being an unintelligent or brutish male. This was in response to Donald Trump's tweet that the moderator of a debate he was in was a bimbo.
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