Last year was called the Year of the Bimbo in part because the TikTok hashtag was filled with young women claiming bimbo status as one of empowerment
Photo: Michael Bezjian/WireImage In the past couple of years, being a millennial woman has meant living in a state of perpetual vindication. I’m not talking about the “cancellation” of bad men but about our unfairly maligned pop-culture idols from childhood finally getting a chance to rewrite their stories and take control of their legacies.
“Around the turn of the millennium, it became fashionable for women to appear stupid — to get by solely on their looks and to be concerned only with fame and materialism. Some of the effects of that moment in the zeitgeist still linger today,” Madison said in the author’s note to her 2015 memoir, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny.
Despite all she’s been through, it’s refreshing to happen upon Madison’s cheerful TikToks now, which, despite occasionally referencing her time as a Bunny, feel divorced from Playboy’s exploitation. Even though she’s still a poster child for the brand’s signature look, it’s hard to know whether the army of 1.6 million who follow her on TikTok even know that.
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