Samantha Brick - 'Women hate me for being beautiful'

The best part of that This Morning video was Eamonn Holmes' face after she said all the men would find her attractive.

Got one question wrong in the Zoolander quiz.

I went out with a girl like that very briefly. Very vain and annoying.

She was hot though.

I don't think she's a bad looking woman. Certainly better looking on the This Morning video than in those pictures. But she is extremely vain.

Bunni wrote:

Dr Cottle wrote:I don't think she's a bad looking woman. Certainly better looking on the This Morning video than in those pictures. But she is extremely vain.

She's not ugly-I think most would agree with that. A little plain looking maybe but not ugly. However she's nowhere near as good looking as her article suggests she considers herself to be.

Just read that Guardian article mocking hers :lol:

Wow. From the extract Eamon reads

"I regularly have bottles of wine or bubbly sent to my restaurant table by men I don't know"

Then she spends the rest of the video backtracking and saying that she's 41 and this doesn't happen regularly. Are half a dozen encounters over 41 years regular? No.

I'm glad they at least attempted to touch that women don't treat her badly because of her looks, but because she is insufferably arrogant about her looks. She is adamant that her appearance drives friendships away and has never thought that it could be her personality (or that the woman who didn't wave to her from the car simply didn't see her).

Then she believes the backlash that her article has generated is all about her looks. It really isn't. As the female presenter says, it's the arrogance. As Kelly says, if I, as a person, get a negative reaction from society and from all the people around me, I have to bear in mind the possibility that perhaps I have to change, rather than believing society has to change.

emilythestrange wrote:As Kelly says, if I, as a person, get a negative reaction from society and from all the people around me, I have to bear in mind the possibility that perhaps I have to change, rather than believing society has to change.

It shows how incredibly arrogant she was to assume the problem was everyone else and not her :lol:

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emilythestrange wrote:I'm glad they at least attempted to touch that women don't treat her badly because of her looks, but because she is insufferably arrogant about her looks.

Sure the backlash against Samanatha Brick is her misplaced sense of self-confidence. But I think a major part is to do with the fact that the public find it difficult to believe that a woman with her everyday looks gets a positive reaction from men. Actually I am not surprised by this at all. She is woman who takes care of herself and compares well with some other women of her age. In the anonymous corners of the world where men bump into her I can believe that some will find her alluring and try to flatter her. We may believe that only the Angelina Jolies of this world get such attention but in reality this can happen to ordinary women who have a feminine swagger.

Venom wrote:
emilythestrange wrote:I'm glad they at least attempted to touch that women don't treat her badly because of her looks, but because she is insufferably arrogant about her looks.

Sure the backlash against Samanatha Brick is her misplaced sense of self-confidence. But I think a major part is to do with the fact that the public find it difficult to believe that a woman with her everyday looks gets a positive reaction from men. Actually I am not surprised by this at all. She is woman who takes care of herself and compares well with some other women of her age. In the anonymous corners of the world where men bump into her I can believe that some will find her alluring and try to flatter her. We may believe that only the Angelina Jolies of this world get such attention but in reality this can happen to ordinary women who have a feminine swagger.

I disagree with this - as Kelly says in the video, it's her naive presumption that every man in the room wants her, that she is attractive to such a powerful extent that her friends have to keep her away from their husbands, and finally, that the majority of women actually hate her because of the way she looks, as she states in the article's title. Looks have absolutely nothing to do with the way people have reacted, it's her staggeringly misplaced massive ego, her childish presumption that if a woman doesn't wave at her, it's because she hates her because she's beautiful, not because she's a vain, average-looking 41 year old shouting her own praises from a tabloid, who has declared the entire female gender hate her because of her unremarkable appearance.

Most women are adjusted to the idea that nice men from time to time pay a compliment, might buy you a drink or hold open a door or whatever, that information isn't new at all (although I am confused as to whether this happens "regularly" as she said in her article, or only happened "half a dozen" times in 41 years as she said in the TV clip). It's her misguided assumption that all women hate her for her appearance that has pissed me off. If this had a shred of truth, she could have posted an article containing no words and simply several pictures of her and received the same hate-filled reaction.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/07/deborah-orr-samantha-brick

In the spirit of mischievous shit-stirring, the Mail accompanied this article with several photographs of Brick looking, well, fairly unremarkable. Cue a storm of internet commentary insisting Brick was delusional, and also a nasty piece of work. Not all the comments were from women, but the gender imbalance was probably enough to persuade Brick that her detractors are, once again, jealous and unsisterly females.

Unfortunately, though, this latest confession prompted a flurry of interest in Brick's previous pieces for the Mail. These included one saying she had always employed flirtation to get what she wanted, especially at work, and one detailing her obsession with her weight, an obsession so great that it made her balk at the prospect of pregnancy.

Putting all this together, it's easy to see Brick is actually insecure about the way she looks, to the point of neurosis. It may be this that compels her to view every man she meets as an opportunity to test whether her wiles are still in full working order, probably unconsciously and probably even if they happen to be the partners of her female friends. Women do not tend to warm to other women who behave in this way. The world is full of beautiful women with lots of female friends, but who are different from Brick in that they don't feel the need to prove it to themselves through male validation. It's also one of many reasons that giving the glad eye to the boss is so widely considered by both sexes to be a bad idea. Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.

Aaaand breathe :lol:

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Well expressed Emily. Thank you.

I thought you might want the link to her old French Housewife blog where she talks about how great it is to be a wife, in a house, in France. http://french-housewife.com/

emilythestrange wrote:
...and one detailing her obsession with her weight, an obsession so great that it made her balk at the prospect of pregnancy.

Through all of this it seems to be that she's a neurotic yet arrogant person, with a gooseberry fool personality, who's been given too much attention.

Venom wrote:Well expressed Emily. Thank you.

I thought you might want the link to her old French Housewife blog where she talks about how great it is to be a wife, in a house, in France. http://french-housewife.com/

She lives in France?!

Her latest article on the Mail site is hilarious. Just flat-out trolling :lol:

She's like the Jordan of journalism.

Apart from being a glowing report of her ability to live like a celebrity on strawberry float all food, it's a shame she doesn't regard her husband in the same fashion. Man tits? GTFO. I wouldn't put up with that gooseberry fool. If she's so high in demand for being beautiful and skinny and ever so Joan Collins-esque why isn't her husband a sculpted adonis too?

A part of me just feels really rather sorry for her. Imagine having a head like that, just broken. Or imagine having to carve out a career for yourself by pretending you're broken.

I would but personality disorders are soooooo draining. :roll:

Ginga wrote:Her latest article on the Mail site is hilarious. Just flat-out trolling

Just read it, it's delicious. I can actually see her sitting behind her computer getting damp at the thought of how many people will take it seriously.

Bunni wrote:I would but personality disorders are soooooo draining.

I bet it would make you a mint though. I think she's amazing I love controversy.

Couldn't be arsed to read the whole article, but the This Morning interview was entertaining. Where does she live again? :lol:

Samantha Brick - 'Women hate me for being beautiful'

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