Is Lauren Sanchez the 'Ideal' Western Woman?

"At a time of deep seriousness in the world, it’s wonderful to see someone who's having such an unapologetically good time," says reporter Joanna Coles, hired to report exclusively on Sanchez.

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I couldn’t resist, I had to write about Lauren Sanchez, the fiancé of Jeff Bezos.

Seeing her splashed all over the news got me wondering about women as products to be bought and sold. Sanchez gives the impression she’s a strong, free, independent woman. But is she really?

I’m hyper-aware of this topic since I just wrote The Insanity of Western Women Defending Oppression, where I contrast the courageous Iranian women protesting against hijab laws with western women protesting in favor of the very regimes that are torturing and killing these courageous women.

Would you say Lauren Sanchez is the epitome of the ideal western woman? Her body looks like it’s been built to satisfy the fantasies of every man—but only a man as rich as Bezos can afford her.

And when I say built, I mean that literally. How much do you think that body and that face cost to create? How much do you think the entire package costs to maintain? A friend of my daughter who has seen her at parties says there isn’t a single part of her that’s original and she looks creepy up close.

Is that really what men want?

In Empire of Illusion, I wrote about how from 1997 to 2021, 7.2-million women in the U.S. received breast implants. Just when women were finally realizing they shouldn’t cut open their breasts and stuff them full of toxic balloons, Sanchez comes along and makes women want to do it all over again.

But Sanchez isn’t just a repackaged face and body. She’s intelligent, athletic, funny. Goodness, she flies her own helicopter.

And she’s philanthropic. An absolute must for the wife of a billionaire. It’s up to the wives to hide money in nonprofits while appearing charitable. Bezos’s ex-wife, McKinzie Scott is praised for her philanthropy. We’re told she has given away half her fortune from the divorce—$14 billion worth.

But get this, it’s been given mostly to LGBTQ+ causes, according to a MAP report, “Unrestricted and Unprecedented: The Impact of MacKenzie Scott’s Large Gifts on LGBTQ Organizations.”

Interesting, since MAP is the acronym for Minor Attracted Persons, which I just wrote about. Whenever it comes to these billionaires, wherever you look, all roads eventually lead to the end game—transhumanism.

Don’t ever imagine that any of this is by accident. Scott isn’t a “nice lady” who decided to be generous because she “cares”. No. She’s the ex-wife of one of the most powerful men in the world. My bet is she’s giving money to the causes she’s been ordered to fund. That’s her job and she better do it.

Sanchez has a role to play, too. And she’s performing it perfectly.

She is so “hot” right now that The Daily Beast hired a reporter, Joanna Coles, to cover her exclusively.

“What I love about her is that she’s so clearly having so much fun, she is just enjoying herself when there’s a time of deep seriousness in the world. It’s wonderful to see someone who’s having such an unapologetically good time,” gushes Coles.

The world might burn to the ground, but we won’t notice, we’ll be so busy watching Sanchez unapologetically having fun.

We can watch her walk around in fabulous outfits, we can watch her lounge on yachts, we can obsess about what it would be like to be her. (Can she sleep on her stomach with those balloons?)

We can ignore our debt growing bigger and bigger as we buy products to try to look like her—all from Bezos’s Amazon. Sanchez has said they make a perfect husband and wife team. And they do.

Not everyone is a fan of Sanchez, though. British restaurateur Keith McNally slammed Sanchez on Instagram as “absolutely revolting.”

“Is this what having 1000 Billion dollars does to people?” he wrote (among other things that I won’t repeat).

Her bestie, Chrissy Teigen, rushed to her defense. “She’s actually incredibly dynamic, accomplished and kind, and everyone who knows her would say the same.”

I guess Teigen has gotten kinder since 2021, when she sent sadistic messages to a teenage model, telling her to kill herself.

Do you notice any similarities between Tiegen and Sanchez? I wonder if they both use the same plastic surgeon.

We can be forever grateful to Kim Kardashian for her contribution to the mutilation of the modern woman. What a trailblazer.

Being a woman is a beautiful thing. Why do we have to spoil it? Why do we have to mutilate ourselves? Why are we so easily manipulated?

Sophia Loren pops into my head. She was so naturally beautiful. Please watch this short interview of her. She talks about growing up in poverty during the war and how much it meant to have children of her own. At the end, when she is asked to sum herself up in one or two sentences, she remains silent. She refuses to reduce herself to a sound bite.

Imagine if we could put Sophia Loren next to Lauren Sanchez and Kim Kardashian. No filters. Yikes. Those two modern-day blow-up dolls would never agree. The illusion of their cartoonish characters would shatter next to Sophia Loren’s natural beauty.

Where is the balance between hyper-sexualization and complete domination. Both extremes result in the same thing—erasure of woman.

Now look at this photo of a Muslim woman. She looks sultry and sexy. Far more so than Lauren Sanchez ever could. Yet less than Sophia Loren.

Of course, the photo is airbrushed and not reality. Still, women will always find a way to look alluring. If the eyes are all that anyone can see, they will make those eyes smolder. That is, if they are allowed to by the men who “own” them.

The entire point of covering women is to erase them. Make them invisible so men won’t be tempted by their sexuality. In the west women are being made invisible by self-inflicted mutilation and by allowing men into women’s spaces. Which method is worse?

Below are the different coverings Muslim women wear, depending on how strictly their community follows Islam.

When I lived in Luxor, Egypt, I dressed modestly, out of respect for the culture, but also because I prefer dressing like that. I often wore a scarf on my head, not because it was required of me, but because it made sense in the desert, especially when the sand was blowing.

I grew up in the Plymouth Brethren community and women had to cover their hair. I didn’t like it—not one bit. But the experience of knowing how it felt, among other experiences, helped me better understand the restrictions enforced on women under Sharia Law.

In Luxor, I enjoyed wearing jellabiyas and Abiyah. Below are the seamstresses who made my dresses and a friend who visited me from Los Angeles.

I would buy material in the fabric store; discuss a pattern and these lovely women would sew them. Here is an abiyah that they made for me. (Sorry for the bad quality of the photo.)

And here I am with some of the girls from my boxing class. We were celebrating their completion of the boxing course I’d developed for them. How I loved these girls and how I miss them!

Below are a couple of photos of the girls and Marwa, who helped me. Marwa is very famous in Luxor, but I won’t say more about her here. I’m writing about my life in Luxor, and she’s a part of that. You can read what I’ve written so far in The Egypt Files.

Now, let’s give ourselves a shock by going back to the United States and checking out Rihanna’s latest attempt at selling herself to the highest bidder. I cannot find anything appealing about her attempt, something Madonna did much better, although I was never a big fan of Madonna.

Poor Rihanna. She looks like a depraved vampire or something worse. Why do women want to debase themselves like that? It’s disheartening.

Because of the challenges I faced as a girl and the abuse I suffered in my first marriage; I’ve always made it my mission to inspire girls and women to be strong and independent and to be able to defend themselves. Below I’m teaching women boxing in Tarzana, California.

Teaching at Tarzana Boxing, Los Angeles

In juvenile hall, I started my creative writing class with a group of nine girls, all facing life sentences for serious crimes. Often, they hadn’t committed the crime, but had been under the influence of older, abusive men and obeyed what the men told them to do. That was the case with Silvia Sanchez, who I wrote about in The Power of Words.

Silvia reading her writing in juvenile hall, I’m listening. 1997

Silvia was in my first writing class. It took her a while to open up, but once she did, her writing hit hard. This is one of her most powerful pieces:

To Be a Girl

To be born a girl, I see it as a punishment. As a little girl, they’d dress me up in a nice, beautiful dress and show me off. As I started to grow older it was, let’s do her hair, show her how to talk and dress her up in a tank top and some short shorts. Now she’s ready to go out.

All you have to do is ask him for a cigarette, smile, thank him and walk away. As a girl, you could walk into any club you want without showing an I.D. You could get away without paying for your meal. That’s what I learned. But then it wasn’t fun anymore. Sure, as a girl I liked the attention but now I was getting attention from the wrong people. Now my uncle looked at me like a piece of meat. His friends would whisper and say, let’s take her out, you know what she wants, just look at her, they all want the same thing.

I was no longer considered a cute little girl. It was my fault that guy did that to me. I shouldn’t have dressed like that. It was my fault he hit me. I should have said, yes, you could do whatever you want to me because I’m a girl and it’s a man’s world. I should have been at home cleaning and cooking like all girls should. But I didn’t want to be like girls should be. I can’t never change the fact that I was born a girl, so the one time I decided to act stronger than a girl should, I stood up for what I believe and told him no. but still, as a girl, I got punished. I got punished for saying “no” to a man and I’ll continue being punished for the rest of my life.

As a girl, I feel I will always be punished.

Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “you’re either a virgin or a whore.” I can remember that feeling when I was no longer a little girl, around the age of twelve or thirteen, and men started to look at me differently. Suddenly, I couldn’t just run around anymore like the boys did. I was told I had to be modest. I had to sit with my legs crossed. Act demurely. I never knew if I might provoke some man to have bad thoughts. It was my fault if I did.

I think most women can relate to how I felt, how Silvia felt during those years of transitioning from a girl to a woman that she describes. It’s hard making it through those confusing years. Many women never make it through untainted.

Below is a photo of me and Silvia, celebrating her release after twenty-five years in prison. That was an amazing night.

Celebrating at Silvia’s sister’s home, the night of her release from prison, November 9, 2016, the same night Donald Trump won the presidency.

I could never live up (or down) to the ideal of the “perfect” western woman, as Lauren Sanchez must do. I am way too rebellious. I don’t want to be made of plastic. Nor do I want to disappear like women do in Luxor. I want to be somewhere in between.

I’m interested in what you all think about this topic. What is the ideal woman. What’s the difference between these ideals in the West and in the Middle East.

If they don’t get you with the burka, they’ll get you with the plastic surgery.