Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body

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About

Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body is a catchphrase that originates from a 2024 House Committee Hearing. The phrase was uttered by Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in response to a provocation from Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene after the two exchanged insults. The quote then came to be used as a caption for memes and as a punchline to jokes in May 2024, which inspired Crockett to file a trademark for the phrase.

Origin

On May 16th, 2024, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing to decide if U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland could be held in contempt of Congress. During the hearing, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene responded to a question posed by Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett by saying, "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading."

Despite receiving backlash, Chairman James Comer said that Greene’s insult ultimately did not violate House rules, to which Crockett responded by saying, "If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blond, bad-built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?" (shown below).

X^[1] user @notcapnamerica was one of the first to report the interaction, posting a transcript to his X / Twitter account on May 16th, 2024, and gathering over 166,000 likes in four days (seen below).

According to USA Today,^[5] on May 19th, 2024, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, filed a trademark application Sunday for rights to the phrase “BLEACH BLONDE BAD BUILT BUTCH BODY.”

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The phrase was posted to Reddit's /r/clevercomebacks^[2] on May 17th, 2024, where it gathered over 30,000 upvotes in three days. A clip of the hearing was also posted to the subreddit /r/PublicFreakout^[3] on May 17th, where it gathered over 11,000 upvotes in a similar timeframe.

Also on May 17th, the the phrase was posted to /r/WhitePeopleTwitter,^[4] gathering over 25,000 upvotes in three days.

The catchphrase "Bleach Blonde, Bad Built, Butch Body" also began making the rounds on X in mid-May 2024, as seen in posts by X user @aramnotagoat^[5] and @bong_rot,^[6] which gathered over 80,000 and 60,000 likes, respectively, in three days (seen below).

On May 19th, 2024, TikToker^[7] @casadimusic posted a remix of the catchphrase, gathering over 2 million plays and 400,000 likes in two days (seen below, left). On May 20th, TikToker^[8] @timecreature62 posted a video using Viggle AI to show Greene doing the Jojo Siwa Karma Dance, gathering over 700,000 plays and 90,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).