Bimbo TikTok: People Who Engage in a Performance of Hyperfemininity

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[–]anxietyaccount8[S] 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

So basically people are turning the image of a "bimbo" into something liberal and woke? This is the epitome of what I hate about libfems.

[–]Omina_Sentenziosa 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I mean, they did it for prostitution, pornography, stereotypes, feels before reals and equating women to walking uterus/vaginas, so why not this?

[–]SharpTomorrow 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

there is absolutely nothing feminist with "liberal feminism" to begin with. "hyperfemininity" my ass, this is purely misogynistic and sexist. This is their idea of "femininity"? fucking shallow...

[–]MarkTwainiac 16 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 0 fun17 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All the work and sacrifice of earlier generations of feminists is being flushed right down the toilet by these youngsters. I feel my entire life's work and that of so many other women has all been for naught.

[–]yousaythosethings 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

“Even though the aesthetic is rooted in consumerism and being all about money and things, we’re trying to push it the opposite way,” says Griffin Maxwell Brooks, a 19-year-old mechanical and engineering aerospace student at Princeton University. “The modern bimbo aesthetic is more about a state of mind and embracing, ‘I want to dress however I want and look hot and not cater to your expectations.'”

Then why are you catering to their expectations to a T? Nothing groundbreaking here.

On TikTok, Brooks favors glittery mesh tops, jangly earrings, jewel-toned hair dye and bedazzled combat boots; with Chlapecka, they are one of the unofficial leaders of the bimbo movement on TikTok, going viral in October with a video of him summarizing the bimbo aesthetic. “The bimbo is not only blissfully and ignorant and spacey but exists at the aesthetic intersection of tackiness and luxury,” they say in the video. “To be a bimbo, one must let go of their former earthly possessions and relationships to adopt a gaudy yet lonely lifestyle.”

If you google him, this is just a garden variety man likely in the early stages of autogynephilia.

[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yup.

[–]Nosce_te_ipsum 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

On TikTok, Brooks favors glittery mesh tops, jangly earrings, jewel-toned hair dye and bedazzled combat boots; with Chlapecka, they are one of the unofficial leaders of the bimbo movement on TikTok, going viral in October with a video of him summarizing the bimbo aesthetic. “The bimbo is not only blissfully and ignorant and spacey but exists at the aesthetic intersection of tackiness and luxury,” they say in the video. “To be a bimbo, one must let go of their former earthly possessions and relationships to adopt a gaudy yet lonely lifestyle.”

The author of this piece can't seem to decide whether to refer to this guy as a "he" or a "they", which makes reading this rather confusing. Also, those last quotes remind me of when I was a kid (around 12 years old) and started writing "deep" poetry by using all sorts of pompous words that either didn't mean anything, when taken in context, or were contradictory to each other. How does one let go of their "earthly possessions and relationships" by adopting a gaudy lifestyle that exists at the intersection of luxury and tackiness?

I'm becoming more and more convinced that these people are, intellectually, very lazy and have developed a fear of "adulthood". They're adopting all these silly identities in hope that society will go easy on them for being so weird and oppressed for it. This is goth/emo, but on steroids and with more horrible repercussions (and this is coming from someone who had a goth phase).

[–]yousaythosethings 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Good catch. Even the panderers can never get the pronouns right.

[–][deleted] 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do your weird fetishy thing I guess but not around children and not with some kind of "academic" bend that masks how dumb it all is.

[–]JasonNecks 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm also not crazy about people who wear gimp suits or whatever weird or explicit or weirdly explicit outfit in public. They have the right to do so, certainly, but they are violating the preferences of others. It's tough to say whether the satisfaction they get from doing so is outweighed by the discomfort of others. I don't know, it's a tricky issue. I guess I can see both sides of it.

With drawing a picture of Muhammad, people just do that because they're angry at Muslims for killing people who do it. But it's not like the people who draw Muhammad are spray-painting their drawings on the street where lots of bad and good Muslims will see it. To the extent that people actually go out of their way to place their drawings of Muhammad where people who don't want to see it will see it... that's bad. And the same applies to sexuality.

Although I'm not as anti-sex-in-advertising as a lot of other people here, I think.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My opinion is that this "bimbo content" is thinly masked fetish content, and thus equivalent to wearing fetish gear in public. If you are in fetish gear in public, you are involving the people around you in your fetish without their consent. While it's not something that is easy to legislate (how do you encode into law what is and isn't fetish gear?), it's wrong to force people to participate in your exhibitionism or whatever it may be. And it's even more wrong to force children to participate in it, or be in an area where many children will be, such as tiktok.

This seems completely different to me than the muhammad drawing issue, especially as muslim cultures have sexual taboos that seem more comparable.

[–]WildApples 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

“Being a self-aware bimbo is amazing: you become everything men want visually whilst also being everything they hate (self-aware, sexually empowered, politically conscious, etc.) Reverse the fetishisation of femininity.”

I doubt there are many modern men who hate "sexually empowered" women. It could be an attack on heteronormativity, but it does nothing to reverse the fetishization of women. LARPing as a female, sex object while retaining the privileges of being male is not subversive.

I think modern media has been so effective at selling objectification of women for decades that men have strongly internalized the desire to be objectified in the same way. All of these political arguments are just rationalizations to explain the subconscious conditioning. And now with people connected to media 24/7, a lot of them probably never get a break from sexually objectifying imagery.

[–]eddyelric 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I saw this on tumblr last night and I just couldn't wrap my head around this. Who is funding this psyop? Did the pandemic affect the pockets of Sephora so badly they needed to fund this?

[–]JasonNecks 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"Do you like to flick off pro lifers?"

I think this should say "flip off". No one "flicks off" pro lifers. I don't know whether she made the mistake or the person who transcribed her did.

[–]socialistrobot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh... so the hellish combination of misogyny, pedo culture, and refauxlutionary politics all into one. A+ logic, 6D chess play of playing into misogynistic stereotypes to defeat misogyny.

Hey universe! Who ever is running some weird social experiment can stop now. You've got all your data on this clown planet.