What Really Matters
A lesson from Patriarchy Hannah and Ashley St. Clair, and Sagui Dekel-Chen
Apologies if you aren’t chronically online, but this has been a fun night on Twitter, which I’ll never get used to calling X. In our little corner of the site, two sort of crazy little dramas played out. (We talked about it tonight on our podcast, which is launching ASAP, subscribe and stay tuned)
The first is that a “trad” account that went by Patriarchy Hannah was exposed to be a total fraud by a guy with a hunch. He went through her timeline and sussed out that she was actually a single woman in her late 30s living with her parents. You couldn’t get less “trad” than that; she was on Twitter doling out “trad” advice to the masses about how to be happily married and raise kids, pretending to be a homeschooling mother of 14.
It’s honestly really pathetic, if it wasn’t so damaging. Lots of women felt the pressure from Hannah and accounts like her to be properly trad and submissive, not knowing that this woman wouldn’t know a happy marriage and family if it hit her over the head.
The second big story of the night is that a “conservative” influencer Ashley St. Clair is apparently one of Elon Musk’s baby mommas.
I nominate Kara to talk about her past statements on monogamy and marriage.
But I was struck by something else since those silly online stories broke.
The most important story I can’t get enough of is the reunion of Israeli-American Sagui Dekel-Chen with his wife Avital. He was released along with two other Israelis in a deal with the terror group that saw the release of terrorists in exchange for innocent civilians abducted on October 7, 2023.
I’ve been praying for Sagui from the beginning of the war, when I heard about his heroism. When his kibbutz, Nir Oz, was first invaded by Hamas terrorists, he locked his heavily pregnant wife and two young daughters in their safe room before going to confront the terrorists in hand-to-hand combat. The family didn’t know if he survived or if his body (like so many others) had been taken. He’s been missing for 498 days, and the family didn’t know until yesterday that he was confirmed to be alive.
I met Sagui’s dad Jonathan on the anniversary of 10/7 in a Fox News green room. We sat and talked for quite a while, and he shared with me about his son and his then year-long quest to bring him home, that extended until today. At the end of the night, Jonathan mentioned that he was on his way to Tampa, where a category five hurricane was about to make landfall. All of us on set were aghast, why are you going towards Tampa?
His answer was simple: My wife is there. She can’t get out, so I’m going to be with her and ride out the storm with her, together. We’ve lost enough (they too lived in Nir Oz, and many of their friends were killed on that awful day, and thankfully, they happened to be out of town that weekend).
With Sagui, the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
This is what it’s really about. In a world of phony families, in a world devoid of love and honor, we need more Dekel-Chens. There is nothing in the world worth more than this:
