#bimbotok

[yourdailyqueer]

Chrissy Chlapecka

Gender: Non binary (she/they)

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 11 April 2000

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Influencer, singer, songwriter, activist

Note 1: For a while previously identified as being bisexual.

Note 2: Is best known as a key figure in "#BimboTok", a TikTok subculture centered on reclaiming the bimbo stereotype and aesthetic in a queer, feminist, and leftist context.

Note 3: Has ADHD

[alexcaninnit]

What are your genuine thoughts on the Bimbo Movement? (Explain in tags)

It’s positive!

It’s negative.

I am neutral/I don’t care about this situation.

Voting ended onOct 29, 2023

[1000-year-old-virgin]

Chrissy Chlapecka - BRAT

[jadasakura]

https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPdBp4742/

[gummees]

anyway by accident I went into the comments of the bimbotok post and honestly men sure need to keep their pea brains out of women's business. go mow the lawn.

[1000-year-old-virgin]

Chrissy Chlapecka - Head Bitch

FUCK YEAH!

[tinstol]

The damage Chrissy Chlapecka and the like did to feminism with their anti-intellectualism is INSANE. “My lived experience is just as credible as something from a fucking book.” Great, now me have a bunch of girls not reading a single thing on the subject and thinking feminism means performing femininity to the fullest extent and nothing else. Now they all chant “no thoughts, head empty” “I need a man so I don’t have to have a job and can embrace my divine femininity” “I’m just a girl” “girl math” “girl dinner” “pink store, blue store”

Fuck Bimbotok, you destroyed a generation of feminists because someone made you feel bad about wearing pink once

[josieandthepussycatsofficial]

On Bimbos and Tradwives - Majuscule

Exploring the Postfeminist Frontier A girl bathed in Barbie-pink light blinks slowly, staring down the selfie cam. She’s massaging her swoll

A girl bathed in Barbie-pink light blinks slowly, staring down the selfie cam. She’s massaging her swollen, freshly filled lips with acrylic-tipped fingers, “just like my cosmetologist said to.” Bulbous, rhinestone-encrusted dollar signs dangle from her earlobes, swaying as she speaks. In the next video, a blonde’s platinum locks are pulled taut in pigtails. She sits cross-legged in a fur coat, a notebook in her lap open to a page reading “CAPITALISM IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL <3 <3 <3.” A girl in a baby blue miniskirt glances glibly over her shoulder as she steps onto a stairmaster, overlaid with the caption “me at 24: fully bimbofied only concerned with feeling good and pretty.” Next, a harrowing flashback: an image of her at a computer, typing frantically, worry lines creasing her forehead, the following phrase floating above her: “me at age 15–19 in an unquenchable thirst for truth and knowledge which only led to despair.” [...]

Rolling Stone describes these bimbos as “anticapitalist,” not to mention “staunchly pro-sex work, pro-LGBTQ,  pro-BLM, and anti-straight white male.” Media outlets are generally taking bimbos at their word on their progressive feminism, with i-d writing that today’s “subversive bimbo” is giving the term a new, leftist lease on life, “tak[ing] away some of the misogynistic power with which the term was originally wielded by the patriarchy.” PhD researcher Stephanie Deig calls bimbos’ “hyperfemininity” a “form of anti-capitalist critique” in VICE, and TheNew York Times lauds their fluency in “social justice language.” There is, obviously, a layer of irony in the performances on BimboTok, rife as they are with winks and jokes, but their ironized tone reads more like resignation than liberation. [...]

 In another tradwife’s vlog, entitled “How to Marry a High Value Man and Become a Housewife,” women get a philosophical quandary to consider. Is there a difference between submitting to a boss and submitting to a husband, and might one be more pleasant than the other? “If you think about it, you submit to your boss, who makes you clean stupid shelves at your retail job. Wouldn’t it be better if you were cleaning your own shelves? And [at home] your boss wants to sleep with you, but in a good way.” Uncomfortable as it might be to admit for those of us who do call ourselves feminists, she’s making some points. With workplace harassment extraordinarily common and many of the jobs available to women low-wage and menial, working for a man who loves you and pays you well might start to sound pretty pleasant. But as Zoe Hu writes in Dissent, “the twist that makes tradlife a phenomenon of our times is its earnest criticism of life under capitalism,” but its next twist is foisting the blame for capitalism’s consequences off its power players’ shoulders and onto “the gloomy figure of the working woman” and her politics: feminism. A tradwife tweets “idk who needs to hear this but the feminist movement was a scam made by the government to get the other half of the population working so they double the tax intake.” Meanwhile, someone else tweets succinctly: “the left hates happy people.” Hu argues that tradwives cast feminism as a “defunct and joyless system,” and this is where bimbos and tradwives begin to blur together in the feed, to align, algorithmically and existentially.