#the girl can't help it

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

The Girl Can't Help It | 1956

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Jayne Mansfield (1956)

[the-alan-price-combo]

this picture sleeve is a psychological need 🙏

[dateinthelife]

18 September 1968

The Beatles decide to make up something simple to record, since they want to leave the studio early and go to Paul's house to watch The Girl Can't Help It on TV. And that's why we have "Birthday": because VHS and streaming haven't been invented yet.

[thejennifers]

a bouncing Kate

the girl can't help it

[filmap]

The Girl Can't Help it Frank Tashlin. 1956

Beach C. del Castillo, 16D, 02640 Almansa, Albacete, Spain See in map

See in imdb

Bonus: also in this location

[moviesiveseenandwanttoremember]

Frank Tashlin’s “The Girl Can’t Help It” December 1, 1956.

[itsmyfriendisaac]

I wholeheartedly agree with John Waters  💯

[heartsick-honeybee]

Sometimes being an artist makes sense. Like I should REALLY finish the drawing ive been working on that I'm almost done with. And sometimes your brain says NOPE. Here is BETTY BOOP instead.

Idk why.

[justapopculturejunkie]

[nellarw95]

Happy Heavenly Birthday Jayne 🎂💔

Vera Jayne Palmer 🤍

April 19,1933 - June 29,1967🙏🏻

We Miss You So Much 🕊️♾️

Buon Compleanno in Paradiso 🎂💔

19 Aprile 1933 - 29 Giugno 1967 🙏🏻

Ci Manchi Moltissimo 🕊️♾️

[daenrys]

icons - jayne mansfield in THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT 💖

[the-alan-price-combo]

On this day in 1965 - the New Musical Express Poll Winners' Concert!!

Featured here is Animals' performance of "Boom Boom", the first song of their set! 🐾✨️

[pygartheangel]

[understandingbimbos]

I was going to wait to expand my thoughts on that last post but now I'm motivated, let's talk about disgust.

I had an interesting conversation with a friend a week ago, who's an outsider to all this bimbo fetish stuff, and they said this, which struck a chord with me immediately.

As much commentary there is about unrealistic and artificial beauty standards being pushed and average women (average people, really) being made to feel insecure, the reality is that most people will prefer "natural" beauty and what they consider sincere -- real. It's an extension of the Madonna-whore complex and goes back what I said about respectability. The ideal woman, to a lot of men, is a woman who would make a good wife and homemaker. In the long-term they want a woman who's proper, that they can view as a human being. This is not a new idea, not remotely. Think of Super Freak,

She's a very kinky girl The kind you don't take home to mother

Legally Blonde, The Girl Can't Help It. There's the woman you (men) see as a sex object and the woman you (men) see as a partner. Take Legally Blonde for example, Elle Woods is far from a bimbo but she's treated as one because she doesn't have the "right" look or attitude for a political career. Despite being smart, capable, and not slutty at all she's still too feminine to be taken seriously by Warner, she's an embarrassment.

In The Girl Can't Help It (1956) you have an inversion of that. Jerri Jordan is a Madonna (loves cooking, cleaning, wants to have several children) but her gangster boyfriend wants her to act like the whore, which she very much looks like, being played by Jayne Mansfield.

And there's so many more examples I can bring up (like Drake's entire career), but I think I've got my point across. Or have I? My point is that, historically, men don't really like women who look or act sexy. Or at least don't respect them. And part of that is tied to the look. It's actually not the norm or even that popular to like women who are very "done-up" and fake-looking, or women who are sexy of their own volition, despite what porn has told you. I CONSTANTLY see men talk about pornstars have "ruined" themselves by getting plastic surgery. But it's usually the "ruination" that attracted me to that pornstar, model, actress, or whatever in the first place.

There's also the botched surgery subreddit. On more than one occasion I've seen women I follow because I think they're very hot reposted there to be gawked at and called gross, sad, and disgusting by thousands of men and women. Same pattern on Twitter. A repost of a sex worker I follow will go viral with a caption like "surgeries are getting out of hand." Millions of disgusted gawkers and commentators.

Personally, I never got the memo. And my admitted unasthamed attraction to these women who look and act the whore was seen by my peers as an indication of desperation rather than a preference or I guess more accurately, a fetish.

Some people think bimbos should be cute or traditionally attractive, I don't. I think it's hot when a woman acts obnoxious and looks sloppy and ridiculous, like a parody of a woman. Or a bastardization of the human form itself.

I knew there was a disconnect when the last season of a Euphoria aired and people were mocking Chloe Cherry for her lips and saying she looked weird while referring to Sydney Sweeney as a bimbo.

To me, the bimbo exists in obscenity. She openly expresses her own sexuality, primps and preens herself to a vulgar degree, and is dumb as fuck. It's like if you took the stereotypical whore, of the Madonna-whore dichotomy, and turned her up to the nth degree. Like a whore monster. Not only is she the opposite of what men respect, to the point she becomes unattractive to most, but also an affront to public decency. And in that way, like my friend said, the performance of femininity becomes masculine. In expressing what she does the way she does the bimbo becomes both the embodiment and antithesis of male desire. For most men she's just... too much. Too dumb, too sexy, too fake, too confident, too over-the-top.

As @severedsheriff put it, the attraction is the taboo. The appeal can be found in the lack of appeal. I suppose a woman being dumb, plastic, and provocative is a bit more accepted now than it was in the early 2000s, but just barely.