'Beautiful Woman' weeps over Internet vitriol

[andy-hughes]

What are people's views on the journalist Samantha Brick who wrote a piece in yesterday's Daily Mail advising that women dislike / hate / fear her because she is so beautiful.

Today, she is an Internet and Twitter sensation thanks to the sheer volume of negative comment she has received -

http://www.dailymail....oves-shes-right.html.

The irony for most people is that Ms. Brick is really not that attractive at all, and she is doubly damned for her egotistical view of herself.

So - let's not simply replicate the comments thus far, but consider the issue of beautiful women and the help / hindrance looks can be in our appearence-obsessed culture.

[rowanwitch]

It helps to be attractive due to the 'halo effect' where possessing good looks mean people tend to attribute other positive characteristics to you even if you don't have them... it helps when applying for work, and obviously in the dating game

[Slapshot]

Nut job describes it....

[naomi24]

Looks are vital in certain fields, not so much in others. However, in her case she comes across as a not terribly attractive publicity seeker.

[mccfluff]

i feel a bit sorry for her, assuming that its not all lies and the things she describe have happened to her, then some men must see something in her. she's talking about the way she gets treated by other woman and this backlash seems to confirm that.

i wonder though do other women treat her in this manner because of her arrogance or because as she thinks she is a threat them them

i also think its a very british thing to be self effacing and not shout" i'm gorgeous", so to have someone do just that - well the reaction speaks for itself

[Gromit]

When I saw her whinging yesterday in the Mail, I thought it is not because you are so beautiful that other women don't like you, it is because you are a delude idiot.

I am not surprised she got so many negative comments. It was obviously going to happen. I confess I had never heard of her, so if it was meant to up her profile it has worked. And linkbait sells advertisements = £££s

[andy-hughes]

mccfluff - I think that's the root of the issue.

Even women who are by everyone's standards stunningly beautiful would come in for similar grief if they spent two pages of a national newspaper whinging about it.

It is certainly not the British way to bang on about any positive aspect or talent, something the Americans find slightly quaint. In my experience, Americans say it how it is, but equally how it isn't. Their sportsmen will happily say "I played a good game today ..." which makes the British cringe because they would rather attribute success to good fortune, or even luck. But the American will equally honestly say "My play sucked today ..." so there is a welcome degree of honesty there.

Where this lady fell foul of the reading populace was that she is really not that especially attractive, certainly not on the 'swooning strangers' and 'leave my husband alone!' level that she seems to think - hence the reaction.

[China Doll]

I think the actual problem is more that people don't like when someone is open about the fact they're good looking, 'she's pretty but she knows it' type thing... I guess flaunting rather than someone who just tries to make the best of themself knowing that they have nice eyes or whatever. Flaunting seems to put men and womens backs up. This woman has flaunted/boasted but doesn't necessarily have the incredible beauty we would expect to back up her claims... I wonder if it had been someone like Beyonce or Rachel Veiss (is that her name?!) saying the same thing if the reaction would have been different? Just a thought more than anything.


^^^ I posted that on another thread about it...

[anotheoldgit]

I wonder if any of the insults and abuse she has had directed towards her via twitter, are vile enough to get the police involved?

[andy-hughes]

Yes China, I agree.

I used to work with a woman who was really really good looking, but she was 'on' all the time. She needed the undivided attention of every single man in the room all the time, which got seriously wearying after a while.

As with anyone, you can get used to someone's physical attraction in time, but the constant eye-lash batting, 10K smiles and double entendres become really irritating.

Most annoying of all is that everyone gets this treatment equally, from the most handsome man to the most plain, oldest to youngest, and not all men are stupid enough to think that such attention is genuine.

If that is how Ms. Brick behaves, then she is really up against it - the annoying neediness without the physical beauty to ofset it even slightly.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - being vile is not in itself a criminal offence, so that is unlikely.

[naomi24]

If she was incredibly good looking, I’d have no hesitation in saying so, and I would imagine that, in that case, the adverse reaction she claims to have experienced could have happened in some circles. However, she isn’t, and I simply don't believe her. It's a publicity stunt.

[woofgang]

I used to work in a team with a girl who was stunningly classically beautiful (I am female and straight btw) We worked in a mixed gender environment and I dont ever remember her being treated as any different from anyone else, or expecting to be.
The concept of "don't hate me because I am beautiful" is older than this poor person. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/31/3/410/

[mccfluff]

its a lot of fuss over nothing

[Ann]

I wonder how much she got paid for the Daily Mail article. It was bound to happen that she got negative comments boasting like that - what a stupid woman, she must have approached the paper to seek publicity, or if not, she could have refused to be interviewed. I hope she has now learnt a lesson - to be modest in life, it certainly wins more friends!

[Sqad]

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1121483.html

Seems to be a parallel thread.

[Ann]

Andy's link in the OP didn't work ...
try this
http://www.dailymail....roves-shes-right.html

[andy-hughes]

Thanks Ann86.

[Baldric]

I think this story should have started on Sunday April 1st.
(mentioned on anothered thread)

[sp1814]

andy-hughes

I laughed out loud at the story because she is so completely average. If it had been Halle Berry or Megan Fox complaining that they never get meaty roles because of their looks, then I'd understand it...

...but this woman who is a 6 at best is bragging. "bottle of champagne sent to my table". Brilliant.

Absolutely hilarious.

[sp1814]

Beautiful people (men as well as women) have the issue of the beauty/stupidity thing to get over, which can be a real issue if you're very good looking but also very clever.

Most very handsome men I know are as dumb as a box of eggs, but that is only right - people should NOT have good looks AND brains. It's just not nature's law.