Ep. 33: Beauty Pseudoscience
This week, we tackle a topic that doubles as a prerequisite at Nymphet Alumni University: beauty pseudosciences, from Kibbe body typing to color seasons and seduction archetypes. We consider beauty as capital, how the rising popularity of these systems on
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Show Notes
This week, we tackle a topic that doubles as a prerequisite at Nymphet Alumni University: beauty psuedosciences, from Kibbe body typing to color seasons and seduction archetypes. We consider beauty as capital, how the rising popularity of these systems on social media represents a reaction to body positivity, and the dangers of masculine and feminine energy discourse on TikTok.
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Links:
Image board (includes some relevant TikToks!): https://pin.it/12A4Aze
Carole Jackson's Color Me Beautiful (1980): https://archive.org/details/colormebeautiful00jack/page/n1/mode/2up
David Kibbe's unhinged website: http://davidkibbe.co/
NYT on Kibbe Body Types: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/style/kibbe-body-types.html
Robert Greene's seduction archetypes overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Seduction
QOVES Studio on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/QOVESStudio
@claaaarke on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@claaaarke?lang=en
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