Deluded Daily Mail Writer Mocked For Claiming That Women Hate Her For Being Beautiful
Samantha Brick, a female writer for the Daily Mail, has caused viral lulz over an article published in the paper a couple of days ago – ‘Why women hate me for being beautiful‘.
While I’m no Elle Macpherson, I’m tall, slim, blonde and, so I’m often told, a good-looking woman. I know how lucky I am. But there are downsides to being pretty — the main one being that other women hate me for no other reason than my lovely looks.
If you’re a woman reading this, I’d hazard that you’ve already formed your own opinion about me — and it won’t be very flattering. For while many doors have been opened (literally) as a result of my looks, just as many have been metaphorically slammed in my face — and usually by my own sex.
I’m not smug and I’m no flirt, yet over the years I’ve been dropped by countless friends who felt threatened if I was merely in the presence of their other halves. If their partners dared to actually talk to me, a sudden chill would descend on the room.
Possibly an interesting and plausible article on female sexual jealousy, red in tooth and fingernail…until you see her photo…
Nearly 5,000 comments have been left underneath her article, most of them unkind, to say the least. Even unkinder things are being said about her on Twitter and Facebook. Her article, and the backlash, is turning into a media event. She has even been forced to deny that her claim was a PR stunt.
Why the fury? The fact that she is evidently plain at best, and an utterly deluded crow faced old cow at worst, can’t explain it entirely. The truth is, she dared to tell the truth about female sexual jealousy – the ugly emotion that drives female behaviour above all else. The fact that she is so average looking, and yet probably does get occasional vicious jealousy from other even plainer women, just makes her betrayal even worse.
I can’t see it being caused by anything else – she is after all a writer, thus would know how to write a good, convincing story.
Women have no reason to be envious of her based on her appearance. I don’t know enough about her as a writer, but perhaps she’s another Carol Sarler type, who writes truthful stories about feminism and women in general, such as this article.
I think the purpose of this article drives home the fact that women and especially feminists are nothing but a gaggle of miserable, jealous old mother-geese who only want to bring all women down to their level.
She may have decided to use herself as a ‘sacrificial lamb’ to ensure that there couldn’t be any libellous implications toward anyone else iuncluding groups or organizations such as the modelling fraternity or the sexual trade union for instance.
If this is so, she did it very well!
Alan Vaughn
6 Apr 12 at 1:52 am
April Fool’s Day story I wondered? But no, it appeared on April 3rd.
I wouldn’t say she’s ugly, but I can’t imagine her being the cause of cold stares from jealous wives and girlfriends. The fact that she’s daring to criticise women will probably draw more bitchy comments her way than being threateningly hot. Once you betray the Sisterhood, you’re dead meat.
Deano
6 Apr 12 at 5:21 am
Yes, women hate each other for their physical assets. That’s a truism. Many women say that it is men who judge women primarily by their looks, and that on the bottom line, therefore men are to blame for women’s body image issues.
But on the contrary, it seems to be inherent female human nature to compare oneself to other women. A great deal of female rivalry is based on the way (other) women look. It can’t just all be because men allegedly favor good-looking women, it has to run deeper than that. Otherwise, women could simply choose to collectively ignore male preference and shrug their shoulders at any other woman more physically attractive than themselves. And consider: nature often blesses young women in their prime with an abundance of beauty and sexual attractiveness. And those women tend to have a deeply-rooted desire, more often than not, to underline their own natural beauty by the way they dress, act, move, use makeup and other beauty products, style their hair… you name it. Which makes sense biologically, because men are very “visual” creatures. A fact that is obvious when you just think of men’s response to pornography. As we all know, men can become sexually aroused simply by looking at pornographic images, for example, in a way that seems simply foreign to women.
So on the bottom line, men seem to be hardwired to gauge a potential sexual mate’s “fitness” to a significant extent based on visual information, while women are hardwired to want to attract a man’s attention that way. Feminists will probably be frothing at the mouth at this point, but think about it — at the end of the day, everybody just wants to get laid (and deep down, that includes every man-hating feminist that has ever been). And the two sexes simply have two different yet complementary strategies in going about trying to get laid.
And even if we were to accept the idea that men cause and are to blame for women’s body image issues, like I said, then it still begs the question why women don’t simply choose to ignore such male desires. If we men are really as superfluous and expendable as feminists would have you believe, then what is all the fuss still about… and why does it always seem to be feminists in particular, those self-appointed (and almost invariably self-deluded) spearheads of women’s rights and the betterment of society, who become apoplectic when beautiful young women enjoy strutting their stuff and flaunting their physical assets, or, worse even, when men react accordingly?
inclinedreader
6 Apr 12 at 10:27 am
Thick as a Brick…
Anonymous
6 Apr 12 at 3:26 pm
It’s just an online bitch fight. Nothing to worry about. Nothing to see here.
Anonymous
6 Apr 12 at 3:28 pm
AntiFeminist, why did you change the layout? Having the background black and the text white… seems very irritating. Was there a consensus for this?
Anonymous
6 Apr 12 at 6:19 pm
I remember quite a few years back, Germaine Greer got into a public spat with another highly visible feminist (can’t remember which one) – they ended up arguing about who had the larger breasts!
theantifeminist
7 Apr 12 at 8:47 am