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Dear Megan Fox,
Please stop telling entertainment reporters that I hate you. I don’t hate you. I try not to hate anyone. But you presuming — it’s making me kind of nutzo.
I can’t speak for each and every last one of my sisters, but I doubt that they hate you, too. I mean, it’s a strong word, no? Maybe they have “an issue with you,” as suggested by the Entertainment Weekly writer who conducted the interview I’m now responding to. Maybe they roll their eyes, maybe they grind their teeth when reading EW quotes from you like this one:
“I come across as confident and [women] assume that means that I think I’m hot s—. And that makes them feel bad about themselves and so they hate me.”
or this one:
“I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That’s what our purpose is in this business. You’re merchandised, you’re a product. You’re sold and it’s based on sex. But that’s okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.”
… but hate? You’d have to do something more hate-able.
Let’s get this straight: that you seem to only talk about yourself as a sex object is annoying, sure. You probably have other things to offer, they’re just other things reporters don’t ask you about, because that would probably mean selling fewer magazines.
Not that you discourage said reporters. It seems you enjoy titillating them. Maybe you understand — like a friend of mine in undergrad certainly did — that if you use the word “sex” enough, you automatically become associated with the idea. It’s a powerful idea. It becomes the next word to spring to mind after we hear your name. Maybe it even jangles in mentally as we read your last name. Same number of letters; both end in “x.”
At this point, though, isn’t it possible you’re playing into reporters’ hands — saying just what they want you to — and not the other way around? That your own alleged power is being turned against you?
You say that women are intimidated by or jealous of your sexual confidence. I imagine the truth — for the less Puritan of us ladies, at least — is that we are saddened by an overcompensating 23-year-old, whose Goodyear blimps of “ubersexy” interview responses seem to have the same end as a middle-aged man buying a sports car, or a micro-dicked dude driving an F-450.
(As an aside, a lot of women I know, including me, absolutely love and are not intimidated at all by Kristen Stewart, for example, who I think emanates sexual confidence without having to refer to it all the time. All I mean to say is that having sexual confidence does not automatically equal hateful reactions from women.)
Don’t misunderstand me: Women should ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY TOTALLY talk openly about sex. It’s part of what we do here at Zelda Lily. (Operative word: part.) But to boil yourself or any woman down to one thing is just unfair and unrealistic. (Hollywood’s sexiest men aren’t doing it to themselves.)
You’re obviously a hot-ass young woman — but that can’t be all you’ve got going for you, even if you don’t think so. I happen to recall Simon Pegg saying some really complimentary things about your acting prowess in an interview for How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
Perhaps you’ll ooze sex right into your sixties, like Helen Mirren, or into your seventies, like a regular Sophia Loren. But I hope that you’ll share more with them — maybe an Academy Award-winning performance. Maybe just a really full and fascinating life. That’s a genuine sentiment.
Sorry not to bring the hate,
Ash
(P.S. I noticed you told EW you were a feminist, and I think it’s a pity they didn’t ask you more about that. [Or if they did, they ultimately cut it.] I for one would love to learn more about that aspect of you. Who are you reading? What women inspire you? What does “feminism” mean to you? How is it part of your daily life? If you’re thinking my next open letter should be addressed to all the people who interview about you, I think you’re damn right.)
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Kristen Stewart emanates sexual confidence? All she ever emanates is utter ennui. I think it’s funny that you’ll manage to see emanating sexual confidence from Kristen Stewart, who doesn’t so much walk as brood, but you’ll write off Megan Fox as “overcompensating.” For WHAT?
& I’ll have you know, the 450 is a fine work truck.
Hahaha! Ennui? What thesaurus did you drag that out of?
Hahahaha! The word “ennui” is too big and scary for you? What first grade reading class did you roll out of?
Some people on the internet have these things called vocabularies. Look it up. And stop trying to drag the literate down to your level, troglodyte.
Oh really Erin MJ? Some people on the internet are also huge bitches too. Look it up. And stop trying to drag the mood down to your bitchy level, bitch.
That being said. I’m aware that some people have inflated vocabularies. I ask you this, when is the last time you heard anyone say ennui? When Erin MJ?! WHEN!
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Kudos for the troglodyte usage.
And I’d also point out that using “bitch” three time in 2 sentences doesn’t really say a lot for Stupid Kevin’s vocab.
She is a bitch though. I prefer to use the most offensive terms when addressing people that deserve them.
You’re seriously going to whine about using the word “ennui?” I’m sorry the crew you run with uses a Sesame Street-level vocabulary, but it describes Kristen Stewart perfectly.
I wasn’t whining. I just assumed you looked up the word in a thesaurus. I never really thought of you as someone that would use the word ennui.
“ennui” is not that unusual of a word, kevin. i have probably used it within the last month. but obviously you prefer to be monosyllabic, hence your repeated use of the word “bitch.” maybe you should stop spending so much time on blogs and buy yourself a dictionary.
Wow, Jorge sure does know how to make friends here. Everyone’s attracted to a guy who uses the word ennui like bees towards…poo.
Oh, I apologize, you would probably prefer the more proper term of “feces.”
I like the word ennui, but I learned it in french class not from a thesaurus. I guess I should apologize for being educated.
Look, I don’t think there is anything wrong with the word ennui. It’s just that when one of his names is Big Daddy, you KNOW he had to look ennui up! I knew this girl in high school that would learn a word like Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and proceed to parrot it all around campus. I assumed he either looked up an alternative to boredom in the thesaurus or was watching the latest Meryl Streep movie before coming here. Shit people. If I would have known you’d all latch onto pseudo-intellectual words like this I would have began all of my posts with words like jubilation, despondency, and tumultuous.
Yes, that comment not only vivified us from our state of ennui, but indeed caused us much jubilation at the idea of sharing such intelligent speech on ZL. Your last comment even saved us from our despondency now allowing the neurological brain waves to tumultuously saltate in our minds.
lol I’m not Big Daddy broseph and I can’t think of any reason to parrot a lung disease around a high school
the fact that you take such pride in your willful ignorance is saddening
“I’ll have you know, the 450 is a fine work truck.”
Maybe so, but there is absolutely no reason for someone to have one for day-to-day driving (hell, there really isn’t a reason for most people to have a 250). Additionally, I don’t agree that it’s a fine work truck. It’s too abysmally huge. Seriously, even the military draws the line at 350 and 3500 for work vehicles.
And, yes, I’m well aware this has nothing to do with the original article…this is because I find Megan Fox less interesting than discussing the failings of pickup trucks. To give that statement a frame of reference, I should note that I find pickup trucks pretty boring on their own.
Megan Fox is one of those people that everyone would stop writing about her and taking her picture I would not care the smallest bit.
Oh there should be an ‘if’ before everyone.
feminists are funny least their smaller minds have something to think about between cooking meals
Are you just mad because no one will have sex with you?
the lack of creativity in your name shows your mind is probably much smaller than any of the women you criticize.
I think it’s funny when some women think that they are automatically hated by other women because they are hot. Sure, there are some jealous females out there but I think a majority of women – especially the feminist ones – can appreciate a hot chick.
I for one love to look at beautiful women. Especially my girl-crush Michelle Williams. The reason why I am not particularly fond of Megan Fox (and as of her Allure interview – Jessica Biel) is that I don’t like their personalities. If they’d have something smart and interesting to say, other than “oh my god, it’s so tough being hot shit”, I would change my mind.
After all though, Megan is really, really young. Getting older and wiser worked for Angelina, maybe it will work for Megan too. Since Angelina seems to be her big idol.
how precious is Michelle Williams? I totally share your girl crush
My girl-crush would have to be Rachel McAdams. I just adore her. She epitomizes cuteness for me.
oh, she is adorable as well! She has the prettiest face.
This is probably why I get irritated at girls such as Fox saying that oh, all women hate her because she is sooo beautiful. There’s plenty of gorgeous women that I look up to. But I tend to respect those who aren’t constantly putting their feet in their mouth. It’s kind of hard to give a shit about someone who is crying that everyone hates them because they are pretty.
Actually, I kind of hate her…
But in all fairness, she wants other women to hate her. I suspect that she has no inter-personal skills and writes off her lack of any real friendships as ‘women hate me because I’m hot’. It gives her justification to act like a bitch.
Most of the other “sex objects” in Hollywood at least try to be more dimensional. I’ve seen a few of her movies and figure that they could have pulled anyone off the street and found a better actor. Of course she is hot, but i live in Southern California and see hotter women than her on the street everyday. She must think that her pretentious tattoo makes her deep. “we will all laugh at gilded butterflies”…..like you miss fox?
I’m just waiting till she gets really old and we see her in a “where are they now?” kinda thing.
Maybe she’s going to age gracefully and develop some sort of redeeming qualities. But probably she’ll just get a lot of plastic surgery and try to cling to the image she’s created for herself.
And I will laugh.
I really, really like this piece. I think people should give Megan Fox a chance to show that she IS talented and that she DOES have a brain, because honestly I don’t think any of us believe that right now.
In the 90s everyone thought Angelina was just a hot weirdo. They also thought Brad was a nice, attractive guy without much else to offer. Both of them proved us wrong.
So, yes, while she is a bit annoying, I hope that someday Megan Fox will get that chance to show us that there’s more to her than being a sex symbol – because really, has anyone actually given her the opportunity yet?
Angelina IS a weirdo
I definitely second that.
No matter how many foreign children she adopts, I will always have the image of her making out with her brother in my head.
oh, I don’t care if she is weird. I will always thinks she’s a goddess. Another reason why I think this Fox business is silly. I think Angelina is breathtaking, and I surely do not hate her for it.
Is it weird that I found that strangely arousing?
In any case, her being weird has little bearing on her other accomplishments.
Brad IS just a nice attractive guy w/o much else to offer.
His little stints of rebuilding New Orleans and being an architect or whatever didn’t fool anyone.
I was referring to his acting talent.
Actually, the more I learn about Brad Pitt as a person, the more I like him…he does have quite a bit more to offer.
I find in reading blog comments on entertainment personalities, there is a whole lot of hating going around, against almost any celebrity. Megan Fox is probably wrong in overgeneralizing, but I’m sure she gets more than her fair share of hate thrown at her.
As for only talking about her sexuality, that may be because that’s all the media reports on, or maybe she really is that one-dimensional. It’s hard to tell without actually knowing someone. Judging someone’s personality based on celebrity interviews is a little foolish. I mean, we’re not talking about the best and the brightest of interviewers in these rags (that’s right, EW is a rag, I said it).
I wonder, however, if all Megan Fox ever talked about was how great an actress she was, would that elicit less antagonism? Would women be less “saddened” by that? I doubt it. I bet she’d elicit just as much negative reaction from people who would see her not only as pretty, but as arrogant too.
For the sake of argument, let’s assume she really does take pride in her acting work, more than just eliciting sexuality. In that light, she could be seen as being humble. Better to let Simon Pegg and others gush about her talent than to go around tooting her own horn about it.
It’s probably fair to say her comments about “the biz” are a little tactless because they imply all actresses are used as sex symbols in Hollywood, which may not be the experience of all actresses. In general, then, she probably should shy away from making these universal generalizations about people, because inevitably a segment will be offended (rightly or wrongly).
As someone else mentioned, she’s young, and she’ll hopefully develop a more subtle message. Or, her 15 minutes will run out. Either way, it’s not worth us plebians getting all worked up about- nor is any celebrity’s public persona, really.
Let’s face it. No one is gushing about her talent because she is not talented. But maybe she’ll improve with time and experience if she stops getting praised for mediocrity.
She’s a boring ass Narcissist. I don’t find her remotely interesting and thus her looks are less appealing. She looks like a stripper to me, she’s got that cold, blank look in her eyes.
So basically the women Megan was talking about really do exist
Why? I think she gave a completely valid reasoning.
As a guy, I gotta say…Megan Fox DOES look like a dead-eyed stripper. Why are so many people like her famous just for being what is essentially a sex doll that can talk? Of course, she doesn’t actually SAY anything…
She’s right–many actresses are bought and sold as sex objects (though others are also clearly talented)–but it’s so sad that she basically just accepts it. “That’s what our purpose is in this business. You’re merchandised, you’re a product. You’re sold and it’s based on sex.” Really really sad. I would like to think that when she decided to be an actress, she did so out of a genuine passion for acting; not to be a sex object. Yeah, being sexy is an empowering feeling, but there’s much more to it than that.
And what an airhead. No one hate you because you’re attractive. But there are plenty of other reasons to have distaste for someone. See above.
I have to say, I love her!
She’s hilarious to read in interviews. I though her interview for EW was actually really funny, and you learn more about her! It’s great.
And hey, maybe she says that women hate her because she gets alot of hate mail! I guess that never occurred to anyone, but if someone only ever gets hate mail from women, then she’s obviously going to generalize and say that women hate her.
Also, Kristen Stewart and sexual confidence, do not go together in the same sentence. The girl only ever slouches when she stands, and she stumbles all over the place. That’s not sexy. I think she’s great, and she’s perfectly fine with her awkwardness, it makes her who she is. But to say that she emanates sexual confidence, is just weird.
It’s easy to say Oh interviewers only ask her questions about being a sexual person or that they only actually publish those questions and answers but it really wouldn’t be that hard for her to not answer those questions or steer the interview in another direction.
She herself never makes an effort to portray a different image for herself so I think it’s bullshit if she’s going to go around saying women hate her for it. Most women don’t have any problem with other women being confident, more power to you, but it’s the fact that she acts so overtly sexual as if that is the ONLY thing she has going for her.
Personally I dislike her as a celebrity because I find her dull and unintelligent (and note I said as a celebrity, this is the image she puts out in my opinion, obviously I have no idea what she is like in real life).
Is Megan Fox hot? Of course she is; she’s gorgeous. I’m a straight female, but I have no problem giving credit where credit is due on that front.
That being said, however…she’s just not very interesting beyond her looks. It seems like every time she opens her mouth she ends up saying (often in a sort of passive-aggressive way): “Poor me! Women are soooo jealous of my hotness!”
I mean, enough already. We’ve already heard all about just how “not ugly” you are and how intimidating and awe-inspiring everyone finds you. Can we please move on?
I’m sure Megan Fox would consider me to be beneath her on the attractiveness scale, but I’m pretty sure I could probably kick her ass at Super Smash Bros. Brawl, so it all evens out in the ends.
While reading ELLE mag, I came across another great quote of hers “I’m not just a pin-up. I have something to say…” lolololol
Megan, you gorgeous contradiction, you.
So, Megan is bisexual, right?
I’m under the impression that what she’s DOING is presenting herself as sexy to women (in addition to men) who lust (not crush, as ohmygod-I-do) after her.
Think about it. When Pink sings a song about lameasses at a bar who keep spilling their drinks on her in an attempt to be suave, what do guys do? They crack up along with us ladies. Because everyone knows “that guy”, that stereotype. So a guy hearing that is free to think, oh, I know that guy, and I’m not him. Pink doesn’t like that guy, but she doesn’t hate me!
They’re amused, and they come to think of Pink as independent, funny, sharing a joke with them, and best of all, sexy. (Probably this isn’t what Pink had in mind, but the best of our intentions are underpinned by our subconscious desires.)
Isn’t that what Megan is doing?
Megan: Gosh, all these bitchy girls hate me because I’m beautiful! Stop talking about how hot I am!
Me: Yeah, those bitchy girls. Those bitchy girls are just jealous of us pretty girls. Yeah. (And then I regain control of my brain.)
Boy who likes girls/Girl who likes girls: Yeah, those bitchy girls. I don’t like them either! Megan and I have that in common! Hey Megan, that’s so true… you’re so sexy…..!
And it WORKS… for some people. Your enemy’s enemy is your friend.
I think this makes sense, right?
Ummm.
I’m pretty sure most people who hear someone say things like “Girls are just bitchy because they are jealous of how hot I am” just think that that person has their head firmly planted up their own ass.
Totally.
megan fox is no feminist. she’s grotesque. women like her make it harder for us to progress as women. shame on her.
i’d also like to add the fact that one minute she says she gets along better with men and doesn’t like women, and then said she finds men gross. okay. all she does is say something she thinks will make her unique and then she says the opposite once she realizes everything she says has already been said by numerous women before her. she’s ridiculous and embarrassing.
ugh, sorry but I don’t hate on sexual confidence but I do hate women who go “omg they like hate me cuz I’m beautiful! UGH you know you want to look JUST like me, but you can’t HA!” gets really f*cking annoying. She has no skills, no acting talent, and she’s a bimbo, that wants to be like Angliena and try to be the men’s fantasy or whatever talking about comic books and video games and sex. Gez… I have sexual confidence and I’m a tomboy with an attitude and I have had women that were jealous of me because I got along with me all the time just cause they weren’t girly, but shit I don’t go all bitchy and brag that girls get jealous of me or my figure and hate me for stupid reasons. Also Megan has a beautiful face but without all that makeup she’s just another average looking girl with a straight no curve and pancake flat butt figure, with implants. Nothing special, so seriously she needs to get over herself and focus on her acting career than trying to be an attention poop and mature alot then she will probably idolized by others or she’ll be working at some run down modeling site because no one wants to work with her.
I meant to say “because I got along with men all the time just cause they weren’t girly or catty”
Megan Fox is not even really beautiful – just the product of some good surgery.
This person is a product and nothing more – empty, vain, talentless. She gives shallow guys a hard-on because she behaves as if her entire existence is a Penthouse photo shoot with that vacant “I-would-never-question-you-because-I’m-too-dumb” look in her eyes.
She is a truly ugly human being.