Megan Fox has always been an outspoken feminist.
She spoke out about the long history of misogyny in Hollywood long before the #MeToo Movement was a thing. But even though she's been a trailblazer for feminism, she has felt rejected by the community.
Recently, she chalked this up to her not being "enough of a sympathetic victim."
This includes the time director Michael Bay had her dance under a waterfall while wearing a bikini when she was 15 years old. This was her small part in Bad Boys II. Her role in Transformers also didn't help.
In it, Megan told the story of how the "high-heel waterfall" was Bay's solution to her being too young to appear in a bar scene. Kimmel laughed at this and said, “Perfectly wholesome."
Kimmel laughed again and said, “Yeah, well, that’s really a microcosm of how all our minds work, but some of us have the decency to repress those thoughts and pretend that they don’t exist.”
Megan was way ahead of her time in lifting the curtain on misogyny in Hollywood, and yet, few people actually listened to her.
It's something Megan has had to come to terms with many years later.
"I was speaking out against some of the abusive, misogynistic, patriarchal things that were going on in Hollywood back in 2008 and 2009.”
One such instance that sparked these feelings came after she called MGK "daddy" at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards.
"He was like, 'You're gonna be naked tonight,'" she said in a red carpet interview with ET. She was wearing a barely-there sheer dress and an embellished g-string.
This one comment of Megan seemingly being passive to her boyfriend, turned some feminists against her.
“And a lot of people got upset about that, which I think is a funny conversation to actually have," she told Glamour UK.
"Allowing us to experience what we want in life, what we like. That is feminism.”
Which is true: if she's not hurting anyone in her relationship and is okay with it, why does it matter?
“I’ve never felt completely included in the feminist community and I do still think that it’s tricky in an awful way,” she said.
"And so that comes back on me, as they reject me for those reasons." the main reason, she believes is that she wasn't "a very sympathetic victim.”
“Me just being free and having fun with how I am and my personality is very provocative for people,” she said.
“I trigger the people who I trigger. That is something that I, as a famous person, do. That is my purpose in a lot of ways."
Read the full interview here.
H/T: Glamour UK
