Everybody is missing the point on the failed Victoria’s Secret re-brand.

I used to be a very faithful customer. VS had my bra size all figured out, and you won’t know what that means if you aren’t a big-chested woman. That and the familiarity kept me on board in terms of brand loyalty.

But a bunch of years ago, I quit cold-turkey and have never even entered a VS store since. This wasn’t because I missed the soft-porn, tacky “angels”. The “angels” are only of interest to incel guys. This wasn’t because I minded the new “diverse” models. I’m a woman. I don’t care about models one way or another.

The reason why I stopped going was the decor. You walk around a mall and see a dingy, dark, dirty-pink, aging-prostitute aesthetic, and you don’t want to enter the store. The underwear kept going in the direction of “let me step out to the truck stop and make a few bucks servicing the drivers”.

The fixation of both the marketing team and the commentators on the models is a male thing. The angels are about pandering to a certain category of men. The diverse models are about re-educating men. None of this is about women.

Normal women don’t aspire to look either like the angels or like Megan Rapinoe. Normal women aspire to buy a bra that doesn’t pinch, dig or shift while having a pleasant shopping experience. The idea that women wear the kind of underwear that would motivate men to have sex is unrealistic. Most men under the age of 70 don’t need much external motivation to have sex. You don’t need to prance around in fluffy wings and a garter to arouse a normal, healthy man.

I’m finding these Bible quotes everywhere around the house:

The Christian school education is worth every penny. My kid goes to school, and I don’t need to worry about what she’s being taught and whether I’ll have to feel like my Dad must have felt when I came back from my Soviet school and recited the propaganda.

It’s looking very strongly that Biden forbade a serious response to Hamas. We are seeing the enormous pro-Palestinian rallies, reading the Harvard profs supporting Hamas, The WashPo, the NYTimes cheering against Israel. Those are all not simply Dem voters but the organizers, the get-out-the-vote and pick-up-the-ballot people. And the big, big donors. The Dem money, the grunts and the intellectual elite all cheer for Hamas. Why would Biden choose to antagonize them?

By “Biden” here and everywhere else I mean “the collective Biden”. The administration he represents.

I’m watching videos that Ukrainian and Israeli soldiers record to support each other, and it’s heart-breaking and beautiful.

You don’t need to speak the languages to understand the message.

Good people are instinctively drawn together.

Which European countries besides Ukraine didn’t have any anti-Israel, pro-Hamas manifestations?

This tells us all we need to know about whose moral clarity hasn’t been clowded by leftist prevarications.

Incredible but heartening.

Please observe that the countries under attack right now – Ukraine and Israel – are very different except for one thing. They both came to nationhood late and with great difficulty and as a result are intensely attached to it. These are countries whose citizens are more prepared to die for their flag than pretty much anybody else. And they are both attacked specifically because they dared to seek nationhood. It’s their existence as nations that their enemies want to eliminate.

The reason why we see these eruptions of violence in different places is that the nation-state model is cracking up and all sorts of noxious fumes are coming out of the cracks.

We’ve had the perfect Sunday of three very introverted people who stalk around, deep into their inner worlds, and grunt approvingly at each other in the hallways.

I’m going to have another intense week of events and maneuvering around crazy people but then I’m off to Cincinnati where I’ll lie on a bed and stare at the ceiling in complete silence.

OK, and? Are they going to become upset by it? Will they finally, finally, out of a sense of self-preservation, out of pride, out of wounded dignity, out of a distant memory of who they are stop stuffing all of the Left’s #MeTooting, #BLMing, genderfluiding, climate-apocalypsing, Putin- and Hamas-loving trash down our gullets?

Are they finally upset enough to concentrate on their own survival and leave the rest of us bloody alone?

My Dad is Jewish and we experienced anti-semitic persecution in the USSR, so I’m allowed to ask this out loud.

Klara told me a beautiful story that almost made me weep.

In class, the teacher put up on the board a picture of a candy corn and told the students to draw it.

Everybody copied the image on the board.

Except Klara who created a whole character out of it and drew something very different from the original.

Kids laughed at Klara.

“Ha ha, you can’t even copy a simple candy corn. Yours looks weird!”

But the teacher said, “I didn’t want everybody to make an exact same picture. I hoped you’d have fun with it, put your own touch on the picture.”

Klara’s candy corn won the prize for the best drawing.

I’m so happy, and I so wish my Dad were here to see this. That’s exactly how he was. Always doing his own thing. He was the kind of guy, it never occurred to him to follow orders or blindly imitate anybody.

I had to take Klara out of her art lessons because she’d completely ignore the teacher and do her own thing. “Why does Mrs Rosario have to make all that noise?” she’d ask. “She’s distracting me from my project.” The teacher kept saying, “Your kid is really gifted, if only she could follow instructions.” But I’m thinking, making your own decisions and coming up with your own instructions is a much bigger gift than knowing how to draw.

God, I wish I could tell my Dad.