"My daughter has almost finished her medical degree to be a doctor. She is doing really well, but she is finding certain things difficult. She knows she is too pretty now. She is having to make herself deliberately less attractive so she can concentrate on her finals without constantly being distracted with other students wanting to be around her all the time. She didn't ask to be so beautiful. It is such a shame."
Wow.
Let's just think about that fact: A girl born so unbelievably beautiful is uglifying herself on purpose, in order she becomes less popular. What cruel cards of fate the Gods deal!
What century do we live in where a young, exceptionally good looking girl has to stop GHD straightening her hair just to get a little time to herself with her laptop to become a medical doctor? The 1400's?!?
What this poor lass needs is a champion. A hero that's up for the fight. Thankfully, one such person exists. In the South of France.
Ms. Brick, a journalist, used her column some weeks ago to highlight this very problem for herself - also a very good looking person.
Brick, too, is afflicted with beauty. She is dragged down by the cursed consequences of her being stunning: Barmen point blank refusing payment for drinks, men on the street insisting to pay taxi fares wherever she exits the cab, boys forcing bunches of flowers into her hand as she goes about her business at the market - and the examples go on.
This may all, at first, appear lovely. But Brick is quick to say otherwise. Jealous friends, distracted males and resentful wives have made life unbearable. Women judge her, men can't help but want to be with her and wives are confrontational and hurtful.
Brick - despite the good fortune of having a name which conjures no connotation to beauty - claims she has lost out throughout life due to her face. Female bosses have overlooked her for promotions and friends have not let her be a bridesmaid because she would upstage the bride.
And why? Just because she is a woman who enjoys wearing short dresses, confessed in an earlier article to aggressively flirting with any man to get ahead in life and who, thanks to an older husband, hangs around a peer group some 10 years older than she is?
Brick has been reduced on occasion to dress down in jeans and a (in her words) "albeit pretty, demure top" just to get on with her day without attention. Now entering her 4th decade on this planet, Brick states she is welcoming her body's decline - to become like the other, older wives of the men she speaks to, whose bloom is quickly fading. In this way, Brick hopes to be seen for who she is, under her excellent skin and award winning bone structure.
As it turns out - folk were quite happy to tell her what she is seen as now, even before her bloom has over blossomed. Brick became the eye of a huge twitter storm. To paraphrase the response: it was not all supportive of her plight.
Things got so bad Brick went on TV to put her point across that most of the "haters" were women - thus proving her point (women make the lives of prettier women worse). "I am coming out loud: I am a beautiful women". But the Twitter-verse did not see reason. If anything - Brick had somehow made it worse.
Hell, even I partook in a little Twitter chat about her.
But - what if Brick was right. What if she is in a world of ugly people, like Bolt being in a world of slower at running people. But, unlike Bolt who gets adulation and sponsorship - she is shunned, talked about behind her back and responsible for domestic tension among her friends. And there is nothing she can do about it. I mean, at least Bolt could walk to places.
Indeed, you will have by now noted I have not linked to the articles nor posted a picture of Samantha Brick. This is for your own protection. I would hate for me to be the reason you are seen to be looking upon her and being responsible for your marital break-up, you trying force a bunch of flowers through your PC monitor to her or be turned to stone.
As a compromise I drew this picture:
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| This is equal to but not the same as the beauty of Ms. S Brick |
If you really want to take your chances, feel free to Google her. But I want nothing to do with it.
Brick has to live with her face everyday. You don't have to. The burden must be awful.
The thing is, Brick clearly was onto something as the conversation I overheard at the start of this blog proved. Could it be Brick, by putting her gorgeous head above the parapet she has become the zenith point of this hitherto under-represented human rights issue?
I believe so.
Brick may very well be the Rosa Parks of very, very good looking women. In years to come she will be seen as the suffragette of younger women claiming the right to seek out attention from men through their good looks and fashionable skirts for their own selfish needs without guilt and harassment from those men's wives.
It may be too late for the poor, beautiful medical student, but we can only hope it won't be for the stunningly beautiful young doctor yet to come. We can only hope Brick, in highlighting this human tragedy, has somehow made a difference in allowing the girl even the remotest chance to carve a semblance of a reasonable life of being a doctor and terrifically good looking.
