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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nMeet Daily Mail columnist and polemicist (and soon-to-be reality star, of course) Samantha Brick. A brief primer: Last April, Brick whipped up an Internet sh*tstorm when she published her first piece on the notoriously click-baity British website about how women hate her for being too beautiful. Major media doyennes, from Barbara Walters to Ann Curry, got on Brick's case about her piece, but their primary argument was basically \"You're not as beautiful as you think, you crazy wench.\" In a culture where women are socialized not to feel \u2014 let alone say \u2014 that we're beautiful, do we hate Brick for her bragging and pretension? Or for having the sort of confidence that all women should be allowed to have in their looks?That question goes some way to being answered since Brick's penned a new column about the necessity of being thin. She writes: \"The world admonished Kate Moss for claiming that 'nothing tastes as good as skinny feels' but I'd go further. As I see it, there is nothing in life that signifies failure better than fat.The logic is simple and irrefutable: any self-respecting woman wants to be thin, and to be thin you need to spend your life on a diet. I don't believe overweight is ever attractive. Whether we like it or not, we live in an age and a part of the world where men and women regard thin as beautiful.\"OKAY. Well. Let's just go ahead and dismantle this, even though it's barely worth the effort.A) I love carbs. I would actually marry spaghetti carbonara if New York laws permitted.B) Putting this much emphasis on a woman's looks, even if you're lauding her attractiveness, pushes further the idea that women are nothing more than Sephora-painted shells with unimportant brains or feelings.C) Who cares what \"men,\" as a group, may or may not think? I suspect that many of us want nothing to do with the men who may fall into this category. Scott Disick, for example.She goes on to proudly list every insane diet she's gone on (mints, Marmite on toast, straight-up starvation) but mentions that her weight has fluctuated over the years. Which, hey, might have something to do with your completely unhealthy diet rituals. How about a healthy diet of three salads a day, or salmon, and yoga or running? Is the slow-but-steady diet not impressively strict/bonkers/untimately ineffective enough?And then we get our answer, sort of:\"I have only ever dated men who kept a strict eye on my figure. My partners are not only boyfriends but weight-loss coaches...and my husband of five years frequently tells me that if I put on weight he will divorce me. Luckily for me, there is no better weight-loss incentive than a Frenchman. Pascal would not tolerate a fat wife and has told me that if I put on weight, our marriage is over. What more motivation do I need?\"That sounds great! Sorry, did I say great? I meant soul-crushingly awful. ._.Follow Anna on Twitter: @annabreslawImage via Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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