The Samantha affair allows people to point out truths about the Daily Mail and women (again)

[x_butterfly19_x]

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[ljtaylor]

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.)

This sentence summarises the Daily Fail excellently.

As for the Samantha Brick debacle, I'm not sure what to think. In today's paper (at least, the online edition) we have a collection of photos of her at her home in France, quite obviously staged so people will see how normal she is, presumably by poking fun of her middle-aged spread (which seems to be the bulk of the comments on the article).

So...either this woman really does think she is awesome and her editors have decided to capitalise on that for their amusement (and the resultant advertising revenue on the website) or she's agreed to be the best in-print troll I've ever seen.

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[x_butterfly19_x]

This is how I feel about it too.
Maybe she doesn't care as long as she's getting paid? That is sad in itself.

[ljtaylor]

Even if she has set herself up for this, there is no way anyone can read such vitriol about themselves and be OK with it. Some of the comments are just downright uncalled for, and the death threats...is there like a rule that everything merits death threats on Twitter?

[x_butterfly19_x]

there is no way anyone can read such vitriol about themselves and be OK with it

See, I don't know. She did write in her reply that all the hate justified her original position. Even so, it must be horribly demoralizing.

is there like a rule that everything merits death threats on Twitter?

hah if this isn't an Internet Rule already it should be!

[hashishinahooka]

I've often heard people complain about Daily Mail, but since I only read it when linked to articles, I never got the issue. After seeing all the articles Samantha Brick writes on there, it was pretty clear.

[x_butterfly19_x]

Liz Jones' articles are also ...yep.
And their issues with women are only one of the things to side-eye about it. http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/

[ljtaylor]

Liz Jones is so contradictory that I'm sure she's commissioned just to make up crap. Is she rich or broke? I can't decide.

If this is the case, she's doing us a great disservice. Although it's telling that from one woman admitting to stealing her husband's sperm that so many people think ALL of womankind must be up to such shenanigans.

[x_butterfly19_x]

mte mte.

I swear to God that half the time they are trolling for hits.

[lickety_split]

Brick's other articles are quite... frightening to say the least. Her husband sounds abusive.

[x_butterfly19_x]

At the very least he seems a deeply unpleasant person.
:/

I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me... but I can't help it that I'm so popular.

[poetic_pixie_13]

Honey child, Mean Girls wasn't supposed to be a guide book.

Re: I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me... but I can't help it that I'm so popular.

[x_butterfly19_x]

Cher Horowitz could never

[x_butterfly19_x]

mte

every time people fall for their nonsense