Victoria's Secret: When The Figures Simply Don't Add Up

[PoliticalChic]

The fashion show every December was awesome. Too bad the company lost its way and is going down the toilet.

Unfortunately, not just that company.

It is one more aspect of a milieu.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

"Sports Illustrated goes full woke with ‘diverse’ swim search finalists featuring models’ ‘curvy beauty’​

Sports Illustrated has announced its finalists for the woke and diverse 2022 Swim Search, illustrating that beauty is in the eye of the beholder with some of the contestants being more than memorable for their looks and their girth, engendering in some awe while in others revulsion.
Despite a number of the finalists being overweight, the media is drooling over their professed beauty, not to mention their differing backgrounds.

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Sports Illustrated goes full woke with 'diverse' swim search finalists featuring models’ 'curvy beauty'

Sports Illustrated has announced its finalists for the its diverse 2022 Swim Search, illustrating that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

www.bizpacreview.com

Yeah, she's OK.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

1. It is more often than not, a gross error to consider any one factor, event, even comment, as being a singularity, unconnected to a myriad of others.
“Indra's net : Buddhist concepts of interpenetration hold that all phenomena are intimately connected; for the Huayan school, Indra's net symbolizes a universe where infinitely repeated mutual relations exist between all members of the universe.[5] This idea is communicated in the image of the interconnectedness of the universe as seen in the net of the Vedic god Indra, whose net hangs over his palace on Mount Meru, the axis mundi of Vedic cosmology and Vedic mythology. Indra's net has a multifaceted jewel at each vertex, and each jewel is reflected in all of the other jewels:[6] Indra's net - Wikipedia


2. If you fail to look for connections, the Left, for whom there is no morality or tradition, well then, you will forget the promise that they have made to replace God, and claim that they have the ability to recreate mankind in their image.
God distinguishes between man and woman...two sexes.
In the Old Testament, the distinction is clear, making distinctions between the roles, and even the modes of dress.

3. Leftism does the opposite.
Today, because a very different force is ascendant, chaos is on the increase. The best example…Well, Facebook offers 56 options. You can use up to 10 of them on your profile. Fifty-six sounds like a lot, but actually a lot of them are variations on a theme — "cisgender man" and "cisgender male," as well as "cis man" and "cis male." In terms of broad categories, there about a dozen.
See Confused by All the New Facebook Genders? Here's What They Mean.

4. The confrontations between the Left and the Right takes place on so very many different fronts, venues and precincts. It spills over even into ....Victoria's Secret, where we find ....


"Social Justice Lingerie....VS ditches physical beauty for Leftwing Activism
Executives huddled together and designed an ambitious turnaround plan: they would spin off the company into a separate entity, denounce previous leadership as racist and misogynistic, and adopt a new marketing strategy that would focus on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” instead of physical beauty.
All the men on the board of directors, with the exception of CEO Martin Waters, were replaced by women.
The new models were chosen on political, rather than aesthetic, grounds. The group included the soccer player and “LGBTQIA+ activist” Megan Rapinoe, plus-size model and “body advocate” Paloma Elsesser, and transgender swimsuit model Valentina Sampaio, who was born a biological male. Executives crafted a narrative of explicit political activism: Elsesser promised to “change the world” and expand the company’s product lines to XXXXXL size, Sampaio pledged to use her new position to “raise our vibration and catalyze positive change,” and “equality advocate” Amanda de Cadenet said that the point was not to sell underwear but to “shift culture.”
....as representatives of their intersectional identities—the original lineup included an African refugee, a pink-haired lesbian, an obese biracial woman, and a male-to-female transsexual—

Social-Justice Lingerie

Last year, undergarment retailer Victoria’s Secret was in crisis. Sales were down, stores were closing, and activists—having accused the company of everything from transphobia to deforestation—had badly damaged the brand. Executives huddled together and designed an ambitious turnaround plan...

www.city-journal.org

5. "The question is how the market will respond. ....the financial numbers for Victoria’s Secret suggest that intersectionality might not provide a successful foundation for underwear sales. The company’s stock has declined 32 percent since its peak immediately after the reorganization last year. The company recently forecasted declining sales numbers and, in a survey conducted by Bank of America, 23 percent of women said that they liked Victoria’s Secret less than they did pre-Covid, compared with 13 percent who said they liked it more. Executives have even tried to blame poor financial performance on the war in Ukraine, which doesn’t suggest confidence."
Ibid.


Sooo......woke Victoria's Secret seems to be be polling pretty much as the Biden Democrats are.

Since they went woke, I have not even bothered.

It's one thing to pick up a piece of lingerie and imagine looking one Heidi Klum ND another to look at something that was last modeled by the north end of a south bound cow.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Since they went woke, I have not even bothered.

It's one thing to pick up a piece of lingerie and imagine looking one Heidi Klum ND another to look at something that was last modeled by the north end of a south bound cow.

Well.....teen aged boys won't be swiping the latest catalogues from the mail......

 

[sarahgop]

1. It is more often than not, a gross error to consider any one factor, event, even comment, as being a singularity, unconnected to a myriad of others.
“Indra's net : Buddhist concepts of interpenetration hold that all phenomena are intimately connected; for the Huayan school, Indra's net symbolizes a universe where infinitely repeated mutual relations exist between all members of the universe.[5] This idea is communicated in the image of the interconnectedness of the universe as seen in the net of the Vedic god Indra, whose net hangs over his palace on Mount Meru, the axis mundi of Vedic cosmology and Vedic mythology. Indra's net has a multifaceted jewel at each vertex, and each jewel is reflected in all of the other jewels:[6] Indra's net - Wikipedia


2. If you fail to look for connections, the Left, for whom there is no morality or tradition, well then, you will forget the promise that they have made to replace God, and claim that they have the ability to recreate mankind in their image.
God distinguishes between man and woman...two sexes.
In the Old Testament, the distinction is clear, making distinctions between the roles, and even the modes of dress.

3. Leftism does the opposite.
Today, because a very different force is ascendant, chaos is on the increase. The best example…Well, Facebook offers 56 options. You can use up to 10 of them on your profile. Fifty-six sounds like a lot, but actually a lot of them are variations on a theme — "cisgender man" and "cisgender male," as well as "cis man" and "cis male." In terms of broad categories, there about a dozen.
See Confused by All the New Facebook Genders? Here's What They Mean.

4. The confrontations between the Left and the Right takes place on so very many different fronts, venues and precincts. It spills over even into ....Victoria's Secret, where we find ....


"Social Justice Lingerie....VS ditches physical beauty for Leftwing Activism
Executives huddled together and designed an ambitious turnaround plan: they would spin off the company into a separate entity, denounce previous leadership as racist and misogynistic, and adopt a new marketing strategy that would focus on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” instead of physical beauty.
All the men on the board of directors, with the exception of CEO Martin Waters, were replaced by women.
The new models were chosen on political, rather than aesthetic, grounds. The group included the soccer player and “LGBTQIA+ activist” Megan Rapinoe, plus-size model and “body advocate” Paloma Elsesser, and transgender swimsuit model Valentina Sampaio, who was born a biological male. Executives crafted a narrative of explicit political activism: Elsesser promised to “change the world” and expand the company’s product lines to XXXXXL size, Sampaio pledged to use her new position to “raise our vibration and catalyze positive change,” and “equality advocate” Amanda de Cadenet said that the point was not to sell underwear but to “shift culture.”
....as representatives of their intersectional identities—the original lineup included an African refugee, a pink-haired lesbian, an obese biracial woman, and a male-to-female transsexual—

Social-Justice Lingerie

Last year, undergarment retailer Victoria’s Secret was in crisis. Sales were down, stores were closing, and activists—having accused the company of everything from transphobia to deforestation—had badly damaged the brand. Executives huddled together and designed an ambitious turnaround plan...

www.city-journal.org

5. "The question is how the market will respond. ....the financial numbers for Victoria’s Secret suggest that intersectionality might not provide a successful foundation for underwear sales. The company’s stock has declined 32 percent since its peak immediately after the reorganization last year. The company recently forecasted declining sales numbers and, in a survey conducted by Bank of America, 23 percent of women said that they liked Victoria’s Secret less than they did pre-Covid, compared with 13 percent who said they liked it more. Executives have even tried to blame poor financial performance on the war in Ukraine, which doesn’t suggest confidence."
Ibid.


Sooo......woke Victoria's Secret seems to be be polling pretty much as the Biden Democrats are.

If you want fat womens underwear why buy over priced VS when you can go to Walmart?

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

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Not Necessary ... As Victoria's Secrets also introduced their first Downs Syndrome model ...

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Wow

That's a bridge too far. Sexualizing the retarded. Unbelievable

Why is the left so terrified of sexy & beautiful women?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Wow

That's a bridge too far. Sexualizing the retarded. Unbelievable

Why is the left so terrified of sexy & beautiful women?

I'm gonna guess it is the same reason they hate capitalism: it produces winners and loser.


Vonnegut poked fun at the Left's demands for the impossible...everyone be made equal in every way:


Perhaps the best way to reveal the insanity of the Left's campaign for their view of equality is to revisit the satirical exposition of equality, written in 1961 by Kurt Vonnegut.
"Harrison Bergeron" is a satirical and dystopian science-fiction short story written by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and first published in October 1961The satire raises a serious question concerning desirability of social equality and the extent to which society is prepared to go to achieve it.
Harrison Bergeron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


a. "All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers around a young man (Harrison) who is smarter than his peers, and is not affected by the usual "Handicapping" which is used to train all Americans so everyone is of equal intelligence.
Harrison Bergeron (TV 1995) - IMDb

b. Kurt Vonnegut begins Harrison Bergeron this way: The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal in every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was quicker or stronger than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut


c. The government forced each individual to wear handicaps to offset any advantage they had, so that everyone could be truly and fully equal. Beautiful people had to wear ugly masks, the strong had to wear weights, the graceful had to wear bags of birdshot, and those with above-average intelligence had to wear government transmitters in their ears that would emit sharp noises every twenty seconds to keep them from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron.

 

[BlackSand]

Wow

That's a bridge too far. Sexualizing the retarded. Unbelievable

Why is the left so terrified of sexy & beautiful women?

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It is a more basic direction Progressivism tends to support ... The elimination of Exceptionalism.
It flows through all of their desires, and the attempt to grant an artificial value to everything.

Essentially ... Make everything equally worthless in the name of Humanity.

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[marvin martian]

tl;dr

It's ok, we all know what your take would be; defend the billion-dollar corporation, no matter what.

 

[sarahgop]

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It is a more basic direction Progressivism tends to support ... The elimination of Exceptionalism.
It flows through all of their desires, and the attempt to grant an artificial value to everything.

Essentially ... Make everything equally worthless in the name of Humanity.

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VS had a brand that set them apart a bit. Now just go to target or Walmart and save money. I walked by VS in the mall today and sure enough they had a wall full of pictures of the butt ugliest women on earth.

 

[whitehall]

A clever name for overpriced junk made in China.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

So, does anyone remember, as a young man, thumbing through the print Victoria's Secret catalog, and saying to himself, “I wish they would replace these models with butch lesbians, morbidly obese women, and creepy male perverts who think they are women”?

Me, neither.

 

[miketx]

Are you certain you want your children to grow up believing that this is perfectly normal?

"Rose McGowan’s Gender-Fluid Partner Rain Dove Maced in a Women’s Bathroom

Rain Dove, a gender fluid model who’s currently dating actress Rose McGowan was maced by a woman in a woman bathroom after being mistaken for a man.
“This person peppersprayed me in a ‘women’s restroom’ a little bit ago. I didn’t get to converse with this being because this person just sprayed me and ran past with their kids in terror, asking the security guard to come in and confront me. I wasn’t even able to get the humans name because of the chaos and the washing,” Rain Dove said."
Rose McGowan's Gender-Fluid Partner Rain Dove Maced in a Women's Bathroom



I bet he can find work at Victoria's Secret.....

Shoulda beat his ass!

 

[PoliticalChic]

No Joke: This Is The Cover of The New Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition…​

No Joke: This Is The Cover of The New Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition… | Weasel Zippers

www.weaselzippers.us

 

[shoshi]

Cindy Crawford said if she was modeling today she may not be popular because she was never a size 2. She was not skinny enough for the runway today. So are things changing back now?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

1. It is more often than not, a gross error to consider any one factor, event, even comment, as being a singularity, unconnected to a myriad of others.
“Indra's net : Buddhist concepts of interpenetration hold that all phenomena are intimately connected; for the Huayan school, Indra's net symbolizes a universe where infinitely repeated mutual relations exist between all members of the universe.[5] This idea is communicated in the image of the interconnectedness of the universe as seen in the net of the Vedic god Indra, whose net hangs over his palace on Mount Meru, the axis mundi of Vedic cosmology and Vedic mythology. Indra's net has a multifaceted jewel at each vertex, and each jewel is reflected in all of the other jewels:[6] Indra's net - Wikipedia


2. If you fail to look for connections, the Left, for whom there is no morality or tradition, well then, you will forget the promise that they have made to replace God, and claim that they have the ability to recreate mankind in their image.
God distinguishes between man and woman...two sexes.
In the Old Testament, the distinction is clear, making distinctions between the roles, and even the modes of dress.

3. Leftism does the opposite.
Today, because a very different force is ascendant, chaos is on the increase. The best example…Well, Facebook offers 56 options. You can use up to 10 of them on your profile. Fifty-six sounds like a lot, but actually a lot of them are variations on a theme — "cisgender man" and "cisgender male," as well as "cis man" and "cis male." In terms of broad categories, there about a dozen.
See Confused by All the New Facebook Genders? Here's What They Mean.

4. The confrontations between the Left and the Right takes place on so very many different fronts, venues and precincts. It spills over even into ....Victoria's Secret, where we find ....


"Social Justice Lingerie....VS ditches physical beauty for Leftwing Activism
Executives huddled together and designed an ambitious turnaround plan: they would spin off the company into a separate entity, denounce previous leadership as racist and misogynistic, and adopt a new marketing strategy that would focus on “diversity, equity, and inclusion” instead of physical beauty.
All the men on the board of directors, with the exception of CEO Martin Waters, were replaced by women.
The new models were chosen on political, rather than aesthetic, grounds. The group included the soccer player and “LGBTQIA+ activist” Megan Rapinoe, plus-size model and “body advocate” Paloma Elsesser, and transgender swimsuit model Valentina Sampaio, who was born a biological male. Executives crafted a narrative of explicit political activism: Elsesser promised to “change the world” and expand the company’s product lines to XXXXXL size, Sampaio pledged to use her new position to “raise our vibration and catalyze positive change,” and “equality advocate” Amanda de Cadenet said that the point was not to sell underwear but to “shift culture.”
....as representatives of their intersectional identities—the original lineup included an African refugee, a pink-haired lesbian, an obese biracial woman, and a male-to-female transsexual—

Social-Justice Lingerie

Last year, undergarment retailer Victoria’s Secret was in crisis. Sales were down, stores were closing, and activists—having accused the company of everything from transphobia to deforestation—had badly damaged the brand. Executives huddled together and designed an ambitious turnaround plan...

www.city-journal.org

5. "The question is how the market will respond. ....the financial numbers for Victoria’s Secret suggest that intersectionality might not provide a successful foundation for underwear sales. The company’s stock has declined 32 percent since its peak immediately after the reorganization last year. The company recently forecasted declining sales numbers and, in a survey conducted by Bank of America, 23 percent of women said that they liked Victoria’s Secret less than they did pre-Covid, compared with 13 percent who said they liked it more. Executives have even tried to blame poor financial performance on the war in Ukraine, which doesn’t suggest confidence."
Ibid.


Sooo......woke Victoria's Secret seems to be be polling pretty much as the Biden Democrats are.

Putin's fault

 

[miketx]

No Joke: This Is The Cover of The New Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition…​

No Joke: This Is The Cover of The New Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition… | Weasel Zippers

www.weaselzippers.us

There's plenty to go around!

 

[PoliticalChic]

Cindy Crawford said if she was modeling today she may not be popular because she was never a size 2. She was not skinny enough for the runway today. So are things changing back now?

You're not actually missing the real pandemic afoot in the world, are you????


mass psychosis.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Another example of Indra's Net, and the interconnections of all things......health considerations aside, praise for black women who happen to be obese.....just like the woke views of Victoria's Secret...




And did you see this?
Their troops in the medical profession must think all blacks are obese:
. In the face of the facts about how deadly the covid virus is to overweight, obese, individuals, these racists, Democrats in doctors garb, must believe that blacks are largely overweight (no pun intended) and therefore, as a "medical fact"....

"Obesity affects some groups more than others​

[Read CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data brief]
Non-Hispanic Black adults (49.6%) had the highest age-adjusted prevalence of obesity,

Obesity is a Common, Serious, and Costly Disease​

Get the latest data and facts about adult obesity in the US.

www.cdc.gov



Rather than offer plans to mitigate obesity......these racists encourage it:

"WC4BL also promotes what appear to be significant medical falsehoods. For example, they seek to “deconstruct the falsehood that weight equates to health, including ending the use of BMI.”

'White Coats for Black Lives' Calling Shots at America's Medical Schools​

White Coats for Black Lives, a radical socialist organization of doctors and medical students, is set to racialize the practice of medicine.

www.breitbart.com

"Medical providers must unlearn the false equivalency between weight and health, and fat people must have access to affirming healthcare free of stigma and guilt."
https://whitecoats4blacklives.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/WC4BL_Vision_Document_1_.pdf

"New “Racial Literacy Curriculum” for High School Pushes Social Justice in Every Subject, Including Math​

A new curriculum released by Pollyanna, Inc., diversity consultant to over 60 high-priced elite K-12 schools, preaches that “all texts grapple with race, either explicitly or implicitly,” that “health can be experienced at every size,” and tasks students with planning protests in math class.

Health at Any Size​

Under the biology-denying rubric that health is “socially constructed,” the “Health and Wellness” unit amplifies the canard that individuals can be “healthy at any size.” When mortality rates during a pandemic are tied to co-morbidities like obesity, teachers need to be clear that excessive weight gain is dangerous.

VIDEO: New “Racial Literacy Curriculum” for High School Pushes Social Justice in Every Subject, Including Math

A new curriculum released by Pollyanna, Inc., diversity consultant to over 60 high-priced elite K-12 schools, preaches that "all texts grapple with race, either explicitly or implicitly," that "health can be experienced at every size," and tasks students with planning protests in math class.

legalinsurrection.com

 

[BlackSand]

"New “Racial Literacy Curriculum” for High School Pushes Social Justice in Every Subject, Including Math​

A new curriculum released by Pollyanna, Inc., diversity consultant to over 60 high-priced elite K-12 schools, preaches that “all texts grapple with race, either explicitly or implicitly,” that “health can be experienced at every size,” and tasks students with planning protests in math class.

Health at Any Size​

Under the biology-denying rubric that health is “socially constructed,” the “Health and Wellness” unit amplifies the canard that individuals can be “healthy at any size.” When mortality rates during a pandemic are tied to co-morbidities like obesity, teachers need to be clear that excessive weight gain is dangerous.

VIDEO: New “Racial Literacy Curriculum” for High School Pushes Social Justice in Every Subject, Including Math

A new curriculum released by Pollyanna, Inc., diversity consultant to over 60 high-priced elite K-12 schools, preaches that "all texts grapple with race, either explicitly or implicitly," that "health can be experienced at every size," and tasks students with planning protests in math class.

legalinsurrection.com

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This is nothing new ...
It is in everything ... Every scenario and condition in the text and testing ... Even the word problems in the Math portions.

Attempts to fight it are null and void because they have buried it so deep into everything ...
Then misrepresented any opposition and damn near outlawed the ability to say anything about any of it.

You see more blatant examples nowadays because they are victorious and bold as nonsense breeds more nonsense.

Opposition to it is like someone trying to save themselves by catching a nuclear weapon ...
And all you can do is shake your head and realize that sucker is toast.

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