Samantha Brick - insanity at work?

[andy-hughes]

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Given the tears and tantrums Ms.Brick confidedto the nation when her assertion that her gorgeousness was simultaneously a serious handicap in her work life, and made her a social pariah among her women friends who couldn't trust their husbands within 500 yards of her - why would she write this?

Th definition of insanity is said to be re-creating an identical set of circumstances, and expecting a differfent outcome.

So - either Ms Bick seriously doesn't get it, and is in line for another virtual kicking, or she is gently mocking all of us for getting intoi a tizzy about her fictional existance, because no-one actually thinks like this in 2012.

I have a horrible feeling it's the first of those two options, what do you think?

[237SJ]

Whoops 37 years. Even worse then.

[askyourgran]

I never noticed Simon/Bernie/Peter/Richard blowing their own trumpets having column inches telling everyone how wonderful and handsome they are, how women fall at their feet and rush to buy them meals drinks presents. Those men you mention are not particularly attractive, except they are attractively rich. I don't think the Brick woman is either of those, yet, until some reality programme runs out of contestants and picks her to be the next face of the nation earning her more than she deserves.. What has sex discrimination got to do with this? Rant over.

[starone]

She looks a hard piece to me. Hope she is salting some money away in preparation for the day when Pascal looks around and discovers she has grown older and less attractive. Some day in the future Pascal may be looking for a younger, more beautiful trophy wife. In fact some of the men she has quoted have had several wives, younger each time.

[NOX]

237sj, AYG is 100% right, the men you mention are simply successful, at no point do they bore us all with how attractive they think they are. It wouldn't matter whether this specimen was male or female, it's still tediously self absorbed, sexual equality also means I can hate this woman as much as if she were an arrogant man, which I do.

[237SJ]

I think the sex discrimination aspect is that when a woman dares to state that she is attractive she is so villified by the (largely male press). What`s wrong with a woman being proud of herself. OK, she`s vain and precious and probably a complete pain in the ar@e but the vitriol that this woman has recieved is such that is reserved for tyranical African dictators and is far and away out of proportion to what she has said.

[NOX]

I strongly disagree. I think if say even a much lauded and lusted after male celebrity had said ' I'm so gorgeous, I can't even speak to women without my men friends punching me in the face, my life is a hell for the loveliness I spread' I really think he'd have had an equal lambasting. the fact that this woman is not lovely to look at, she is mediocre at best, is clearly self absorbed and arrogant has got up the noses of men and women equally because she's clearly a vacuous imbecile who thinks she's truly something special when in fact she's just another bag of dirty water trundling around the planet for a few years like the rest of us. People don't like arrogance that's all.

[parkie]

I find the most dispiriting thing about all this is just the fact this woman is paid to say all this twaddle. (Assuming it is her and not a ghost writer). There are far more interesting things to publish in a newspaper than the aforementioned article. If it's not Ms Brick it's Liz Jones bemoaning how she's so hard up and running herself down all the time.
I don't read all this stuff but there are enough comments in the media to give me a general idea.
What a waste off newspaper space.

[237SJ]

I agree but I think when a man is completely vain everyone just brushes it off and says it`s a typical man`s ego. When a women says such things, she`s a hag, a slapper, ugly, old, fat etc and how dare she because that`s not femanine. Some of the posts on this thread bear that out, don`t you think?

[NOX]

I think the bones of it depend on whether it's true or not. I mean had Angelina Jolie said it I'd be slightly more convinced it's true, as it is I half pity her because I think she must be a bit witless and half can't stand her because she's just so tediously arrogant and silly. If she were beautiful I could well believe her dilemma, my wife's flatmate was without doubt the most beautiful girl who couldn't get a boyfriend for years because she intimidated them ( she was a nice girl) with her looks, had issues with bitchy friends etc and nasty people undermining her career, but she was something very special looks wise, whereas 'the Brick' to most people is ordinary at best, and to me to be honest quite unattractive because she's not my ' type'. Were she a nice girl I could get around that but she also strikes me as terribly high maintainence and hard work because of her huge overinflated ego. I think perhaps if she were in a more normal relationship it might not be so bad, but I think these two are feeding each other's negative traits to ridiculous proportions.

[237SJ]

But you`ve said it yourself NOX. If Angelina Jolie had said what Samantha Brick had said you would believe it because you believe her to be beautiful. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[NOX]

Yes in addressing the fact that you thought men might consider it 'unfeminine' to blow their own trumpets. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but the consensus seems from most people that Ms Brick isn't that attractive. I was merely saying that had Angelina Jolie said it I'd have believed it and not thought badly of her for being 'unfeminine' ( in fact I don't feel Samantha Brick is unfeminine- just annoying). For me personally it's not a sex thing - I just find the woman bl00dy tedious, but I think I would find a similarly vain man equally so.

[askyourgran]

Whatever sex they are it's the arrogance and lack of modesty that gets up people's noses. There are hundreds of celebrities, now worth a few million each, you see them in magazines and they all look as though they are thinking they're bees knees. Samantha Brick hasn't done anything at all no singing/dancing/acting, but she insists on proclaiming to the nation how desirable she is, regardless of the fact that most people don't think so.

[237SJ]

I`m not really sure most people find Ms Brick unattactive. I think she is quite attractive (as it happens) but I`m female and see her as attractive rather than sexy. I certainly don`t find Angelina pretty. Pretty scary maybe.

[askyourgran]

Perhaps I should rephrase my answer, Ms Brick is not unattractive, merely a nice ordinary looking woman, not ugly, but her egotism is an ugly trait. That I think is what people dislike about her. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, for me she hasn't got what it takes.

[shoota]

She's an OWL!

[joko]

she didnt merely state she was attractive though, did she?

no-one would condemn a person for recognising that they are attractive - lots of people are attractive - it was all the ludicrous claims - that men practically fall at her feet, shower her with gifts, cant keep away from her and women hate her and avoid her etc etc

big difference

sure, she is a fairly attractive woman - but only in a general, average sort of way - like most women.
but she is not, 'beautiful' or stunning.
she implies she is somewhere is the league of helen of troy or something, and anyone with eyes can see she doesnt even come close .. and thats what has annoyed people.

the claims would have been ridiculous coming from a stunning woman - nevermind her - and perhaps people would have been more accepting of the fact that some women are jealous and bitchy, and some men do go overboard etc - but coming from her its just such obvious blatant lies that its a very unnattractive trait - to be so utterly arrogant and egotistical to write such crap

[andy-hughes]

One columnist put her finger on the crux of this issue - 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder' is a famous phrase, and like most enduring phrases, it is true.

Ms. Brick's attitude of telling everyone else how gorgeous she is precludes anyone who may wish to do so, from stating it themselves.

From my experience, seriously beautiful women already know how much they annoy others around them because of a simple accident of birth, no-one would go looking to seek additional hostility by foghorning their own attraction to the general public via a national newspaper.