C’mon, you didn’t think this week was going to end without a Samantha Brick cameo, did you?
You already read the original op-ed — everyone did — but for extra comedy gold, go spend some time with the comments over there. Here’s the very first one, left at a little before 9 p.m. UK time on April 2, shortly after the piece was posted:
so who’s going to be first to say it…..
– alan, new york, 2/4/2012 20:49
They got another 5,700+ comments after that and pretty much all of them were saying “it.”
She does admit here to having written the piece partly tongue-in-cheek, but I’m not sure what to make of this: “I’m not saying that I am attractive. I’m talking about the perception of someone who is considered to be attractive by other men and women and what that does to our society.” Er, which men and women are those?
Exit question: Second look at low self-esteem?
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