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An interesting response to the storm over Samantha's Brick's article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... lves/print

and a mildly amusing one..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/ ... good-looks

someone tweeted Ross o'Carroll Kelly the link to the original article saying that they were sure he could identify with her " problems".

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Una Mulally was on Matt Cooper yesterday with a similar take on the entire episode. I had missed it (don't know who Brick is/don't care) but the reaction to her article is both fascinating and frightening.

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Great piece. The Daily Mail is a misogynist rag.

Quote:

The paper and, to a larger extent, the website is pretty much built upon a foundation of "articles" – though that word does seem a stretch – about female celebrities who all fall into the dichotomy of being either thigh-rubbingly salacious ("Look at this sexy young woman in minimal clothes! Look! Look at her!") or eye-poppingly repulsed ("Look at this woman who is older than 30, and over nine stone! Ew! Look! Look at her!") Sometimes the two genres are combined.

Further proof that the Daily Mail hates women. This is just downright nasty:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... e-her.html

Who is she?
She looks fine to me, pudgy & plain, grand.

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I read her article and did think to myself..she is just ordinary looking. If she was a stunner then I would have no problem with what she wrote because alot of that would be true. Men love stunning women and alot of women are jealous of them. But when you see the photographs of her your like what? She says she works out everyday and stays away from chocolate...yet she still has her little flab rolls. Now if she didnt say that and she had them that would be fine but in her article she seems to be saying I am so gorgeous because I dont eat chocolate and I work out everyday even when I dont want to.

As I said if she was a stunner then I would say fair play...but she is not. But what she has got is confidence so fair fucks to her. She also must have a fairground mirror

It is an interesting article in the Guardian and I would agree that the Daily Mail constantly print outrageous articles by female journalists and no doubt twist the article for their own purposes on many occasions....

but I think the validity of the point being made by the Guardian in this particular case is somewhat undermined by Samantha Brick penning a follow up article...

you can only be thrown to the wolves once
it appears she is picking herself up and throwing herself back in... again and again...

when she wrote a follow up article about how right she was and everyone is just jealous... well, its really just proving that she is deluded... and when she allowed yet another article/interview and photos for a 3rd subsequent day (todays headline online) )and took to National TV this morning for another grilling... me thinks she must have her own agenda and the Daily Mail is actually serving her well...

I didn't read the initial article, just had a quick flick through some of the follow-up ones.
I'm reminded of a girl I was friends with in school. She wasn't bad looking, but fairly ordinary and unnoticeable I would have guessed. But she thought she was Gorgeous. And it seems she was very bewitching to men. She would give them a "I know you're looking at me" look, and suddenly they would be. She was probably the most fancied girl in the class. Now she was fun but there were better personalities and better looks in the class, her self-belief was truly bewitching for men though.

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DD1 is 7, DS is 5, DD2 is 3.5

I think the psychologist says it all here



Did you read the bit where she said she can't wait to be over 50 and old and wrinkly as it will be such a relief to have her looks fade and be considered "normal". She is just in the clouds about herself.

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Our New Years Day baby boy, gone but never forgotten.

"The Daily Mail is a large-scale professional troll, and this article is troll-bait of the highest order—a master stroke of carefully orchestrated misogyny. It basically screams, “HERE, TROLLS! DON’T YOU HATE THIS AWFUL BITCH? LOOK, SHE THINKS SHE’S BETTER THAN YOU BUT SHE ISN’T EVEN PRETTY!” It begs women to go all mean-girl on her (every woman I spoke to succumbed to the temptation immediately), gives men a pass to comment on the relative value and fuckability of her body, and encourages both sexes to eviscerate, body-shame, and judge Brick with impunity because her ideas are so repellant."

from http://www.broadsheet.ie/2012/04/04/sam ... all-of-us/


No arguing with the above!

The Daily Mail is a veritable modern day Colosseum buy with women used as bait. Pretty unsavoury indeed.

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DD1 (10), DD2 (9), DS (7)

Just look at her neck and around her mouth, it looks a lot older than the average 41 year old neck. I'm a good few years older than her and my neck doesn't look as old as hers.

I never heard of her until I saw some of the things Frankie Boyle tweeted about her in the aftermath of "the article" First impressions and all, I couldn't really read the artice with an unbiased view after that

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Ruth Langsford has lost so much weight - she looks very thin in those photos from This Morning program.

There was a girl like that in my year in school as well, but it wasn't her self belief that was bewitching for men, it was her wild sex parties.

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