Brand_X wrote:A bimbo, in the true original meaning of the word pretty much is a "female sissy". Maybe not quite exactly the same, but pretty close. The word got hijacked some time around the 1990's and is now used to describe any woman who dresses in a skimpy outfit. But that is NOT a bimbo, bimbo does not mean gold-digger or trashy. Marilyn Monroe in that iconic white dress - remember the subway scene in The Seven Year Itch? - that was classic bimbo style.
I never considered the textbook/dictionary definition of bimbo.
Here's what an etymology dictionary online has to say. I have an old Webster's Dictionary (1972, revised updated 1993) and the word bimbo is entirely omitted. Here's
Urban Dictionary's definitions.
I've been on this site for almost as long as it has been around, around a decade, and based on the way I've heard people talk over that time period, that has kind of shaped my idea of what bimbo is, but it has changed, much in the way you said. I prefer the older style bimbo to the newer style, much more about a classy air-headed hyper-femininity, rather than hyper-sexual lust monsters.
As for the term sissy, UrbanDictionary and Etymonline both are pretty vague on the definition, but generally speaking it does seem to have more of an effeminate male connotation for the more "standard" definitions. But on this website in particular and with regard to feminization on the whole across the internet, I'd say the term sissy being used exclusively for men is kind of dissolving. Many sissy sites are not simply for men with fetishes, but encourage their most eager users to transition entirely. If that's the case, then really, it's more about hyper-feminization than about what gender the original user was.
Most importantly, it has an aesthetic outside of general feminization. Pink, frilly, cutesy, diminutive, Lolita, all might describe what sissy is to different people. So in that sense it very much does not need an original gender requirement of having to be men. Of course for other people, sissy is closer to the idea of the word "twink," a term more characteristic of the gay (men's) community, and therefore possibly more masculine.
I would say the word can mean what you want it to, but as sissy originally came from the notion of "an effeminate male," -- talking to the original poster now -- your use of it will be an uphill struggle. I personally have never been a huge fan of the term sissy, as I prefer a more classy style rather than pink, fluffy frillies; or conversely I do not see myself as a man. So even in my own definition, I'm not entirely sure what sissy means, because it means so many different things to different people.