<p>I agree with Bay, about her husband. </p>
<p>However, I don’t understand what bethie’s surprise is. She put herself out there and people reacted negatively. She sounds stuck-up and egotistical. What did she expect with an article like that?</p>
<p>I know women who are targeted like this. I’m not one of them, but I know it happens. Just like kids are bullied and sometimes you can’t see what sets them apart.</p>
<p>Thank you, bethievt. In a much simpler and clearer way, you said exactly what I tried to convey. </p>
<p>It really is upsetting to read all the comments about her, her husband, and attractiveness in general.</p>
<p>Agree that comments about her dh were uncalled for.</p>
<p>BUT she was the one who made her “attractiveness” an issue in the FIRST place. It wasn’t like we invented this issue.</p>
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<p>She probably expected people to react just the way they did. That was her point. She was telling it like it is. People can and do react badly to beautiful people and to people who think they are beautiful. Its a fact of life that some might not know about, and now they do.</p>
<p>When I was young I was pretty good looking. Did I get special treatment sometime? Yes. We LOVE travelling with our girls: we get special treatment. We do. We get better tables, hotel upgrades, glasses of champagne…It’s nice.</p>
<p>But this too shall pass…</p>
<p>Remember it is the Daily Mail. Whenever I pick up a Hello or some other English magazine and scan through the pictures, many people sort of look like this woman. It is a hot look over there. Sort of Bridget Jones ish. But yeah…not really the same standards as we have here.</p>
<p>The reason it surprises me here is because I know that CC is a forum of really good, well-intentioned people who are basically here to help each other.</p>
<p>When I read interesteddad’s comments about her husband, I took them to be completely in jest. At least that’s the way I read it and I thought it was funny.</p>
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<p>*People can and do react badly to beautiful people and to people who think they are beautiful. *</p>
<p>There is a huge difference in perception with someone who is knock out gorgeous whether they are aware of it or not & some who only “percieves” this to be the case.
I am reminded of those guys who think they are suave & think you are playing " hard to get" when you tell them " not interested". You can be as blunt as you want & they won’t get it.</p>
<p>If someone feels that their friends are jealous of their looks, I would be wondering why a grown woman would still be choosing her friends for their “foil” possibilities, the same way certain teenage girls would pick a less attractive/confident girl to follow them around in high school.</p>
<p>Pretty and Beautiful are very different things. </p>
<p>“Pretty”, in all its degrees, is after all, purchased. (a 100-billion dollar plus business)</p>
<p>“Beauty” is either a natural born-with or grown-into quality. Real Beauty can neither be purchased nor faked.</p>
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Aw, c’mon. This woman isn’t on CC, so will never read these comments and can’t be hurt by them. The good, well-intentioned people of CC are engaged in some utterly harmless fun taking on a woman who wanted to get in the public eye and did so by authoring what she must know is an absurd article. In fact, given the publication, I suspect that the article and the response to the comments were ghostwritten by a Daily Mail staffer and that the very ordinary looking Ms. Brick is cackling at her 15 minutes of fame.</p>
<p>People actually don’t react badly to beautiful people.
We treat them better.
My daughter got the " genius" at the apple store to replace her hard drive & keyboard when she dumped a drink in it. He told her it was a new policy, when she expressed surprise. </p>
<p>When Liz lemon went out with Jon Hamm, they got ringside seats every place they went!</p>
<p>That’s why you won’t see any of these folks who complain how being attractive is such a “problem”, actually doing anything that might make them less attractive “in their own eyes”.</p>
<p>Now that isn’t to say, people don’t make themselves less attractive. They do that all the time.
Girls wear baggy clothing, they gain weight & cut off their hair. You can do a lot if you really want to make yourself invisible.</p>
<p>I agree that beautiful people are benefitted more by their looks than they are disadvantaged. But, they can still be disadvantaged or hurt because of it, and some people may not realize this. It is similar to being the smartest kid in the class.</p>
<p>Wel, I give up.</p>
<p>My oldest daughter is smash your car into a parked car gorgeous, and i’m not exaggerating. I’ve seen this happen. I tried not to laugh at the poor guy. She is get sent a bottle of wine from an anonymous person beautiful, discovered on the street stunning. (Actually discovered. Not a metaphor)</p>
<p>She is also the nicest person, and even to this day when somebody tells her she is beautiful she seems surprised and says “thank you.” She has a lot of friends. </p>
<p>She learned “friends first.” She never flirts with friends boyfriends. She never flirts with guys with girlfriends, even if she doesn’t know the girlfriend. She buys her own drinks, but always says thank you, and insists on going dutch.</p>
<p>When she is single, she says to her friends. “This is the list of guys I like, have any of you ever dated any of them? Are any of them off-limits?” One or two times a guy she really liked was off limits. But, you know what? She respected that. </p>
<p>Like I said, she has a lot of friends. It’s all about respect.</p>
<p>It’s like being very wealthy. You don’t run around eating caviar for lunch when your friends can afford a salad. you have the salad. </p>
<p>This woman fails to understand that true beauty is something that also comes from inside, and she is only a 6 or a 7, to begin with, and maybe that has something to do with the fact that she doesn’t have that “inner light.”</p>
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<p>This made me laugh. My sister isn’t exactly drop dead gorgeous, but she’s got a nice chest and wears VERY revealing clothing. We were in Vegas one time at the Venetian and she was leaning over the bridge where the gondolas were. The guy rowing the gondola (I don’t know what they’re called) couldn’t stop staring at her chest and ducked JUST in time to not get hit hard by the bridge. We joke about it. </p>
<p>Sorry side story. It just triggered it. </p>
<p>She’s NOT like your daughter though. She’s more like the person in the article. She’s selfish and stuck-up and has no interest in doing anything for anyone other than herself. It doesn’t net her a lot of friends.</p>
<p>The problem with the lady in the article is that she thinks most other women hate her because of her looks, while most could probably care less. It’s not that men buy her drinks, or let her cut in line, it’s the idea that women are yelling about her in public. We me snark about her behind her back, but unless copious amounts of alcohol where involved, women don’t do that</p>
<p>And regarding Michelle pfieffer, I want her to play me in the movies</p>