Samantha Brick: "Woman hate me because I'm beautiful"

[goddessmushu]

Hey everyone,

I don't if this story has reached most of you but it has caused quite a stir in the UK.
Samantha Brick, A writer for the Daily Mail (a right wing aligned newspaper) wrote an article entitled "Why woman hate me for being beautiful"
In the article she mentions that countless numbers of male strangers have bought stuff just because they saw her face and were astounded by her beauty. I personally find this hard to believe, except perhaps if she were in a bar/nightclub scenario, but shes talking about walking down the street and men handed her random bunches of flowers or buying her train tickets. Seems a little weird to me.

This didn't bother me at all; I've been with friends who have been approached by men because they're hot, but what really got me riled is that she presumes that all women hate her because she is beautiful. It's seems to me that she has some serious personality flaws and is using her beauty as an excuse for the reason why some women may hate her. I'm sure most of you have friends you consider beautiful but I doubt you all hate them because of it!
On the other hand I had a friend who got a lot of male attention, and it was no surprise because she looks like Cameron Diaz. I never resented her for it in the slightest. But there were a few things I began to notice about her, she would brush off any suggestions other people would have of things to do, she would put taboos on me if I attempted to talk about something she wasn't interested in and when I refused to help her make the life of her ex boyfriends new girlfriend a living hell, she completely turned on me and made my life a living hell. Now I wouldn't go so far to say I hate her, but I really dislike her, and its not because of her looks. It's because she felt she could treat people like crap BECAUSE of her looks. And to me it seems like Samantha is just another Brick in the wall of women like this (sorry, couldn't resist).

The link to the article is below, but before you read it please remember that not every woman in the UK is:
a) As drop dead beautiful as Samantha Brick (brace yourself)
b) As conceited and presumptious as Samantha Brick
so, women of HelloGiggles, please don't hate us all for either reason

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2124246/Samantha-Brick-downsides-looking-pretty-Why-women-hate-beautiful.html

[ohnicolajoy]

I happened to witness Samantha Bricks appearance on a morning chat show here in the UK. I was supposed to be working but could not pull myself away from the television. I was transfixed at the immense reaction to what she was saying. The television interview and consequent snippets throughout the morning did an amazing job of not only portraying her in a very bad light but also everybody else involved. In my eyes, everybody came across really badly. The whole thing just exposed the human race as being one big farce.

Ok, Samantha is tall, blonde and not unattractive. There are women more beautiful and women more ugly than her. She knows this too.The article mentions more of her experiences with female bosses and the like, treating her with contempt, but the TV show did not really get a chance to delve in to any of this as everybody was spitting and shouting and stoking up the fire under the witches stake, ready for her (viewed by the masses whilst they all cackle and boo) burning.

The shows pop psychologist came on, wearing ten times more make up than she usually would for a morning show and spent the whole time angrily ranting at how annoyed she and the rest of women kind are with her for saying that we all hate her. It was pitiful.

Nothing about this situation made anybody involved seem appealing in any way.

The public tweeted in to the show that she was arrogant not even that pretty etc etc. Samantha then tried to backtrack and make out like she had not really been given random bunches of flowers and bottles of champagne that often and that she had edited down her whole life for the purpose of the article.

I think that some of the things that she says about women are true. I think that is why so many people were angry because people do not like their bad points and weaknesses highlighting. It is sad that attractive women are treated with contempt in some circles or social/work situations. It also has to be said that there are many aspects to an individual, not just their looks and that although people do judge on first meeting, opinions can change on getting to know one another. Maybe Samantha Brick has just had really bad luck and met a load of bitches in her life. Maybe she is difficult to get on with and that is why people do not like her. I don't know. Most people would admit to making an effort with their appearance in order to look good, or as good as they can. There need be nothing wrong with that.

I'm confused as to why she wrote the article in the first place. She surely could have guessed that it would all go wrong? Maybe she is deluded and thought that people would pity her. Either way, if it was me I would enjoy every free bottle of wine that ever came my way, brush off every jealous remark about husband stealing and put it down to insecurity and keep up the gym visits and salon treatments and never try to pour my frustration out in a national newspaper. We all know that news[papers are not our friends, right?

[jess]

I can not believe somebody would actually write that article. When I read the title I thought of one of my friends, who’s very pretty and blond, and how the people sometimes take her for granted because they think that just because she’s blond she’s dumb. FAIL. My friend is a pretty blond, but she’s definitely not dumb, right now she’s doing a master degree in economics with a merit scholarship in one of the best universities in the country, while she jokes around about blonds being stupid, a lot of people don’t and that’s what I thought when I started reading this article, about pretty people and prejudice.
Unlike my friend, I think this Samantha lady is a bit to arrogant and I think is failing in taking a look at herself. I think it’s a little (actually a lot) * to think that if people don’t like you it’s because you’re pretty. Come on a little self-critic.
Anyways, I think this lady’s looks are fine, nothing extraordinary, but she must have a very seductive personality which probably gets her a lot of attention from men and maybe annoyance from women.
The important thing, I think is that beauty isn’t just how you look, it’s a sum of a lot of things and you’re truly beautiful when it’s inner and outer. So maybe, instead of blaming everything on her looks she should take an inner look to see if she’s as beautiful as she says she inside as well.