Samantha who? I'm sure many of you didn't have a clue who Samantha Brick was until she wrote this article asking "Why do women hate me for being beautiful?". I'll be honest- neither did I! Written by 41 year old journalist Samantha Brick from the Daily Mail, the article caused a huge controversial stir!
In the article itself, she talks about how she is hated by other women for her beauty and includes many anecdotes as to how men her buy her nice things because of her looks.
Personally I think it was the fact that Samantha Brick is saying that generally women dislike women who are seen to to be attractive is the reason it has caused as much controversy as it has.
ITV's This Morning she states that she does not regret writing the article. Despite the backlash she is clearly enjoying and lapping up all the attention she has gotten from this article as she sits there with a smirk on her face. However, whilst watching the interview she does genuinely seem to think she is beautiful- surely a women of her age can't be that vain?
This article from the Daily Mail suggests that the article had over 1.5 million views and had 50,000 shares on Facebook. The majority of the comments Samantha Brick's article got were negative. For example, these tweets from members of the public suggest that her beauty is all just a figure of her own imagination.
The article received over 5,000 comments and the majority of them were negative. As a result she then argues in this article that the backlash has just proven her right.
Many people argue that this was one big PR stunt, and you know what? I think I would have to agree! It was extremely clever, I'll give her that because before the article nobody knew who the hell she was, but within three days of the article her name was on everyone's lips. The whole concept of a PR stunt is to gain attention of members of the public, which in fact is what this ugly piece of writing has done, making it one beautiful PR stunt.
I was not aware of this story until reading this but it does seem as if she was attempting to get some attention for herself, which only ended negatively. As much of a PR stunt it seems, it seems strange that she would want to cast herself in a negative light in the hope of becoming known, making her infamous rather than famous. I would agree it is a PR stunt but it would be interesting to find out what her angle and aims were when she devised this somewhat pointless plan. PR is about reputation after all, but does that include a bad one?
ReplyDeleteThandie Masango
ReplyDeleteJust like Gemma Harling, I was not aware of this story on Samantha Brick. Personally I believe there is nothing wrong with what she has said. Society can be so confused sometimes, if women call themselves ugly then people either feel sorry for them or view them as crying out desperately for attention, however if like Samantha, their bold enough to call themselves beautiful, society then makes you feel bad for thinking in such a way. You then become, "self-centred" and "cocky". It's hard to understand what is required of you because it seems admittance that you don't believe you're ugly then makes you seem vain. I disagree with the point that her beauty is what makes other women hate her, it might be the attitude she carries with it. Either way, i believe people shouldn't fear admitting theey are beautiful coz what are we expected to do, have low self esteem for the sake of others not to judge us as vain, it makes no sense.