![]() ![]() The spectacular femininities of bimbos and Barbies Brittany Luse: Barbie is not just feminine, she's hyperfeminine, spectacularly feminine. You can project onto Barbie, to me that is more interesting than just saying that she's a problematic icon or she's some fantastic icon. I had two Barbies and a Ken: Ken was gay and the Barbies were a butch and a femme. She's not just this floating signifier that tells us how to look. And then there's feminist defense of Barbie as representing a Girlboss feminism. And so there's this feminist critique of Barbie as representing patriarchal femininity. ![]() But on the other hand, there is this idea that Barbie has been every occupation and she can do anything. Hannah McCann: She's fraught because she's seen to represent a model to which little girls should aspire, which is narrow. What makes Barbie such a fraught icon of femininity? I am seeing people fight every day online about what she represents. That's why it's so jarring to patriarchal frameworks that insist you prove yourself and keep up in a way that is perfect and up to certain standards.īrittany Luse: Our OG bimbo, Ms. Hannah McCann: It's about not having to engage with people who are demanding that you prove yourself, or demanding that you can intellectually keep up with them or compete with them. You'll see on BimboTok on TikTok, people saying, "Yeah, I'm stupid, I've got nothing in my head, I'm a slut." And unlike the original stereotype of cisgender, white, blonde women, you see on BimboTok people identifying as queer, all different kind of ethnicities and identifying explicitly as left wing or often Marxist.īrittany Luse: What is smart or what could be smart about having a "no thoughts head empty" approach to social critique - how does that work? ![]() Hannah McCann: In the 2020s, you have this change in the meaning of being a bimbo on social media where people are really working to reclaim the term "bimbo" specifically. ![]()
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