Bimbo
Bimbo is slang 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. It is often used to describe women who are blonde, have curvaceous figures, heavy makeup, and revealing clothing. It is commonly associated with "the dumb blonde" stereotype. In 2017 the movement "The Bimbo Movement was founded by self proclaimed bimbo and adult star Alicia Amira, "the woman most responsible for popularizing the  idea of reclaiming hyper-femininity." 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. History. The word bimbo derives from the Italian "bimbo", 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 or brutish man. It was not until the 1920s that the term bimbo first began to be associated with females in popular culture. In 1920, Frank Crumit, 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 song uses the term "bimbo  to describe an island girl of questionable virtue. The 1929 silent film Desert 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". 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. 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. In 2017 the term was reintroduced when self proclaimed bimbos around the world joined forces and created the “bimbo movement” in order  to end stigma about bimbos and to 'reclaim' the word “bimbo” proving that hyper-femininity and female sexuality is power. The bimbo movement attempts to end stigma about bimbos, sex workers and plastic surgery. 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 hyper-femininity to satirise consumerism, capitalism, and misogyny. 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 and as an extension to "the dumb blonde" stereotype. Usage in popular culture. Politics. 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. The expression was also used in a 2014 report 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. 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'. (stupid or foolish person): And one had to remember that most of Quotations. the bimbos to whom Roberta Wickham had been giving the bird through the years had been of the huntin', shootin' and fishin ' type, fellows who had more or less shot their bolt after saying 'Eh, what?' and slapping their leg with a hunting crop. Isn't he the bimbo who took the bread out of the mouths of the Thursday Review people? Chuck the blighter out of the window and we want to see him bounce.