The most beautiful woman in the world... and we're all freaking jealous...

[crazy canuck]

That was great

[lustindarkness]

The Guardian has joined in the fun :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/apr/04/samantha-brick-hated-good-looks

Well played.

[CountDeMoney]

For every female Starbucks employee who made it her business to remember my name, there was a male employer telling me to do up my top three shirt buttons in the office.

[Valmy]

The Guardian says Daily Mail is sexist and stuff: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/04/samantha-brick-thrown-to-wolves?INTCMP=SRCH

Which leads us to the issue about how much it obviously hates its female writers. Again, and not coincidentally, it has plenty of those in abundance. There was much talk a few months ago about how poorly represented women are in the media. As Kira Cochrane pointed out in her extensive piece on the matter, the Daily Mail comes closer than any other British paper in achieving parity of male and female bylines, yet this paper overturns the assumption that gender equality among writers is, in and of itself, the goal. The paper uses its female writers as Trojan horses to voice its most misogynistic attitudes, whether its having them embody the worst kind of female stereotypes (Liz Jones as the label-obsessed bitter single woman, Amanda Platell as the high-flying but lonely single woman, Jan Moir as Glenda Slagg, etc etc) through their confessional journalism, or having them write horrible things about other women, such as Lynda Lee Potter's notorious take on Mo Mowlam or Allison Pearson's opinion on Princess Beatrice's body.

However this is weird:

The general motto of the Daily Mail seems to be that a woman's role in life is to be pretty, thin, get married, quit work, have children and, ideally, disappear or die before getting embarrassingly old and fat (it is no wonder the paper loved Diana so much.)

It seems  the Daily Mail thinks it is the 1970s which is probably the last time a mom was able to quit work outside of the upper classes.

[Syt]

And the lady says that all the hubbub about the article just proves that she's right and that people are jealous of her:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2124782/Samantha-Brick-says-backlash-bile-yesterdays-Daily-Mail-proves-shes-right.html

[Admiral Yi]

What will the Daily Mail force the poor girl to write next?

[Viking]

I like Samantha Brick, she has cojones and probably has a devastatingly sexy bearing posture and attitude. She's the kind of woman that would never, despite the guardians best efforts, starve herself or puke after meals. So what if she's delusional, she's happy and functional and when she looks in the mirror she doesn't hate herself.

[Capetan Mihali]

I can't see what's so wrong with S. Brick except her desire to declare herself attractive...I can hardly imagine how being a little conceited taps into such a wellspring of anon haters...

[Eddie Teach]

If Brad Pitt were to say: 'Yes, I'm a good-looking fella,' then the world would nod sagely in agreement. But if Angelina Jolie uttered something along those lines, she'd be subject to the same foaming-at-the-mouth onslaught hurled at me yesterday.

I do believe she is "taking the piss".

[Syt]

Certainly this whole thing is one of the better trolls recently. Of course she caught people of guard by writing this in the Daily Mail, otherwise known for its well researched, unexcited news coverage.

[Valmy]

I like Samantha Brick, she has cojones and probably has a devastatingly sexy bearing posture and attitude. She's the kind of woman that would never, despite the guardians best efforts, starve herself or puke after meals. So what if she's delusional, she's happy and functional and when she looks in the mirror she doesn't hate herself.

Claiming she is a victim of the female gender's collective jealousy (and the male gender's  collective desire to buy her shit) is what she was doing here.  If she didn't decide to attack other people I would have no problem with it at all.

[Valmy]

If Brad Pitt were to say: 'Yes, I'm a good-looking fella,' then the world would nod sagely in agreement. But if Angelina Jolie uttered something along those lines, she'd be subject to the same foaming-at-the-mouth onslaught hurled at me yesterday.

I do believe she is "taking the piss".

Yeah that is pretty hilarious.  No way she could seriously mean that.

[derspiess]

I like Samantha Brick, she has cojones and probably has a devastatingly sexy bearing posture and attitude.

An average-looking woman who thinks she's drop-dead gorgeous gets points taken away in my book. 

[DontSayBanana]

How are you guys applauding her?  This is no different from the "I'm hideous" crowd- it's just the other pole of the same delusion.  Unrealistically elevated self-image, unrealistically low self-esteem.

Don't feed the attention whore, move along.

[Valmy]

How are you guys applauding her?  This is no different from the "I'm hideous" crowd- it's just the other pole of the same delusion.  Unrealistically elevated self-image, unrealistically low self-esteem.

Don't feed the attention whore, move along.

Meh if it gets posted on Languish it will be discussed by us.  Blame Romania.