• Just curious: where was that? Since I was a child, “Bimbo” meant a dumb, attractive, woman, and implied promiscuity. I heard it most in (Italian) gangster movies, mostly. From what I can tell, the racial slur meaning is used in Germany.

      Funny; I lived in Germany for a couple of years and never heard that version, but then, I didn’t hang out with the types that would be inclined to teach it to me. I got standard cuss words and some colloquial Bavarian curses.

      • @[email protected]
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        I haven’t heard it since I left elementary school. I only realized later that there were some really racist kids on that school. Also, it was the 80s. It’s shocking to me now that I learnt basically all the racist and antisemitic jokes I know during my time at elementary school.

        • Yeah, me too. And a vast amount of misogynistic stuff. The latter, I suspect, was just bog-standard puberty and oral lore, most of which was crude. But I still remember many limericks.

      • @Shardikprime
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        11 month ago

        Apparently it is a term that began with WW2. It’s highly regional and not many people use it

    • Flying Squid
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      61 month ago

      It’s a slur for white blonde women in the U.S.

      🤷

    • @Shardikprime
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      That’s Germany only. That’s a very, very small subset of the Hispanic America population