Simplify NEW FORMAT EP1: Nobody Calls a Horse Ugly for Being Large
What if the fastest way out of the beauty standard is deciding you're a horse?
This is the first of a new thing. On the weeks there's no interview, Caitlin and Ben take turns bringing each other one idea they found out in the world – a new term, a newsletter, a cultural weather system – and turn it over together.
Caitlin drives this one, and she brings bimbo stoicism: a philosophy invented on TikTok by a thirty-year-old Georgian creator called Babushka, who took the two halves of her own personality – a bimbo and a stoic – and made three tenets out of them. Ben had never heard of it. By the end he can recite them.
Then there's the homework, which is the fun part: find your twin animal. Not a spirit animal, not a personality quiz but an actual look at your own face that asks you to see something other than a list of things to fix.
The format still doesn't have a name. So email us at [email protected] if you have a good idea!
We're trying the video format out, playing with the studio cameras and the lighting so please do send us your feedback, we'd love to hear what you think.
Resources
- Babushka on TikTok: @babushka.en.
- "Wtf is Bimbo Stoicism? Unpacking the internet's wildest new beauty trend" by Laura Pitcher for Dazed
- Kibbe body types
- Email us at [email protected]
- Simplify on Instagram
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This episode was produced by Caitlin Schiller, Molly Rose Hart, and Ben Schuman-Stoler.
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