Bubble Gum Popped - Querying the "Bimbo" stance

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Originally Posted by Alchemical Night

Hi there,


It's been a while since last raising a subject here, and on the Process more widely - a fact in no small part ascribed to RL and other such demands on my time. Still, that has given a little time for thought and allowance for a certain curiosity to rise to the surface.


To elaborate on the title of my post - as is a habit, I'll admit - I would like to propose two queries to the community at large, and most particularly to those who have a liking for the "Bimbo" in either representation or tendency, as seen most memorably on the site's well known "Bimbo/Mind Control" thread, and to a lesser extent in the "More general/increased beauty" thread too.


My ideas are not particularly ground breaking, though it occurred to me to circulate this curiosity, as I cannot recall seeing these, too much, around or in most recent media discussed.


1) Could it be said the popular, recognisable "Bimbo" archetype has ever been deconstructed in relevant media, or that related to our forum?


2) Has it ever been that the "Bimbo" archetype, as either a outcome or perhaps a phase, has been subverted?


All and any insight is appreciated as, though this subject is very familiar to me, I have not particularly engaged with it with the investment that others have, in the past ^^;.


Thanks,


Alchemical Night.

Maybe but I doubt it. The role of a bimbo is usually to provide titillation, and any sort of deconstruction would probably detract from that. It would be like watching a porno and 30 seconds in the woman says "Stop, I'm just not in the mood right now" and walks of the set. It would be interesting, but would defeat the purpose of watching porn in the first place.

Not saying it's never happened, but most media seems to have enough trouble just subverting the typical "female" stereotype, never mind bimbos.

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There have been some cases of women undergoing a "bimbofication" as part of an artistic/ideological statement, as is the case of "real-life Barbie doll" Valeria Lukyanova. I've also read somewhere a statement made by Alexandra "Kissie" Nilsson where she explained the ideas behind her twelve-parts plastic surgery plan to become a bimbo, which sounded a lot like an attempt to criticize the media and the means by which many women achieve popularity and notoriety through these means today (she also describes herself as someone who likes to provoke people). Perhaps I'm misreading her, but I vaguely remember something like this. There was also an artist who created a persona for herself called Fauxy, and who started a kickstarter campaign in order to fund several plastic surgeries that would be part of an art installation based on this transformation. The kickstarter failed, however, and I wouldn't be surprised if she was never particularly serious about it either.

There's an interesting documentary, also, that may perhaps be more apt to describe as the subversion of the "trophy wife" archetype more so than the "bimbo" one, but which may nevertheless be of some interest and relevance to this discussion, which is called The Queen of Versailles and follows the real-life story of Jackie Siegel, the wife of Westgate Resorts owner David Siegel, through the company and family's financial struggle following the crisis, where she is shown to be the person in charge of keeping everything together. It's a pretty interesting documentary and well worth a look.