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    Do women really hate Megan Fox? After this story, we just might.

    The New York Times Magazine, a publication that usually tackles hefty issues like the war in Afghanistan and the healthcare crisis, devotes its cover this week to the rise of 23-year-old actress Megan Fox. It's an interesting choice for a serious magazine to grant many, many pages to a subject who seems so thoroughly unaccomplished (and, frankly, undeserving). It's perhaps even more interesting for Megan Fox's handlers, who allowed their client to participate in an article where she comes across, more often than not, as bratty, ungrateful, and utterly contrived.

    The story's author, Lynn Hirschberg, begins by discussing the major Megan Fox talking points, essentially what the actress is known for up to now:
    1. The "Tranformers" movies
    2. The fling Fox says she had with a stripper.
    3. The tattoo of her boyfriend's name, which Fox has described as being located, "next to my pie."
    4. How Fox compared her "Transformers" director Michael Bay to Hitler.

    "[Megan Fox] created a rebellious, frankly sexual persona and talked her way into the limelight," Hirschberg explains. In person, however, the actress is: "not warm or particularly friendly and doesn't seem at all interested in small talk...With Fox, it's not a conversation but a presentation."

    And then we get to the crux of the article and perhaps the reason it was agreed to at all. Fox's vulgar, hyper-sexualized image isn't selling tickets, at least not to women. And this has Fox and her people very concerned.

    Hirschberg writes:
    "In the last month, Fox and her team-her agent, Chuck James, and her publicists, Leslie Sloane Zelnick and Dominique Appel-have grown increasingly nervous about her media image. The lack of success of 'Jennifer's Body' highlighted their concern: the outrageousness that made Fox an instant star was not attracting a paying audience, especially among females."

    So. Why don't we ladies like Megan Fox? The actress knows why:

    "'Girls think I'm a slut, and I've been in the same relationship since I was 18. The problem is, if they think you're attractive, you're either stupid or a wh*re or a dumb wh*ore. The instinct among girls is to attack the jugular.'"

    No WAY. Did Megan Fox just essentially use the "they're just jealous" defense? Did she really just say that the reason millions of women aren't responding to her positively is because we're mean and we don't like pretty girls? Sigh.

    How about we try out a different Megan Fox vs. the Female Audience story, the one where this particular actress seems, well, kind of disingenuous and performative and like she's just sayin' stuff about sex and strippers and Hitler so we'll talk about her? And maybe, in this story, instead of feeling like she's too pretty, women find Fox's attention-whoring (not actual whoring) boring and unappealing and an insult to our intelligence?

    The truth is, women are not as easy to win over as men. We're not mesmerized by cleavage, we're not tantalized when you shoot off your mouth to every magazine about how you're like a dude trapped in a woman's body and how you want to screw all of the time. Zzzzz. This provocative behavior--Pandering to Men 101--is an old-as-time game and it's one we know how to play. It doesn't make it intriguing. It certainly doesn't make us want to run out and see your movies. And there's another problem. Despite all the hype surrounding her, Fox still hasn't proved that she's any kind of actress. So, puh-leeze, lady, let's clear things up. We are not disinterested in you because you seem like a slut, but because you seem like a fake cliché slut who stars in bad movies.*

    And, two more points, while we're at it.

    1. In the Times Magazine article, Megan Fox whimpers and moans about how she keeps being compared to Angelina Jolie and that these comparisons are "the bane of my existence." Really? You hate being compared to Angelina Jolie, the hottest, sexiest, Oscar-winning-est, famous-est celebrity in the world? It's the "bane of your existence"? Excuse me, while I literally Laugh Out Loud while Rolling On The Floor.

    2. Then there's this quote, regarding her appearance this fall on "Saturday Night Live": "When women come on 'S.N.L.,' there are a lot of sketches dedicated to how hot they are. I'm really uncomfortable doing that."
    Oh my, Megan Fox. Oh my, my my.

    *P.S. When you and your people roll out your new image, the planned Megan Fox 2.0--a demure, homebody actress who loves her boyfriend of a million years and just likes to bake cookies and wear slippers or whatever the heck you guys think up--we might not buy what you're selling then, either.
    Source: The Self-Manufacture of Megan Fox

     
     
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    282 comments

    • jason holder  •  San Diego, California  •  3 months ago
      The way you all are hating on here it sure sounds like a lot of jealousy to me. Just by the hateful envious comments. Its amazing that someone dedicates a whole article on not liking her and then say she not jealous???? Please! If you werent Jealous you wouldn't have wasted your time on a whole article ridiculing her????????
    • Kaci R  •  10 months ago
      she gives movie stars a bad name
    • MR  •  10 months ago
      Yes, women ---not all---hate her because she is absolutely gorgeous and they are not! As simple as that!
    • DanielleF  •  10 months ago
      AWESOME ARTICLE!!!!!!!!!!! Well written and SO TRUE! HAHA!
    • Moriyah B  •  10 months ago
      I don't know what other people think but I dig Megan Fox. :)
    • Wendy  •  10 months ago
      Bored now......
    • Takara Dubrinsky  •  10 months ago
      ok what i am reading here just go to prove we women go for the kill most of us are not nice and all that crud. come on if we all just played nice with chicks who are better looking then us we would all be in a happy little world where men have no complaints about us and actually want to come home to us all of the time.
    • Wendell  •  10 months ago
      full of hatred. tsk tsk tsk..
    • justme.  •  1 year 11 months ago
      *claps*

      i read an interview of her saying that she's "insecure" and goes into an "anxiety attack" when she looks at herself. then for her to turn around and say we're all jealous because she's beautiful.

      puh lease.
    • j-smoove  •  2 years 6 months ago
      For the record, the fact that "New Moon" has broken box office records -- despite the fact that it is a poor movie -- on the strength of women wanting to see a star half-naked, shows women are quite easy to win over.

      Probably even moreso than men. Megan Fox didn't push Transformers to break Dark Knight's record, did she?
    • A Yahoo! User  •  2 years 6 months ago
      Gee whilikers 'Bat MAM' is that a hot beach or a cold slamiy.I have looked at a zillion pictures of this M-F and never felt a single hair on my male anatomy turn over, But one look at the others in her 'ILKE' do intrest me.Maybe it's her clev-auge, has callous's, her hair is wired on and her plesant smile is non existant.I think the implants were put in from the backside.Seen her 'movie' no acting required it's all FX and Anime with a dialogue for forth grade and pictures for
      college freshmen. Hope Karma gits to work on her real soon.
    • Faith  •  2 years 6 months ago
      ya my bruther is obsessed with fox.yet i love transformers, and trust me it has nothin to do with megan fox. i agree jennifers body is for men audience and i dont really get the whole point of the movie. havnt seen it but just from the previews i can gather it is problly just about fox's body. so i agree with all ya's that r tryin to cover the exact pint i am!!!
    • MaryannaF  •  2 years 6 months ago
      Oh man, this artical nailed it on the head!! Hilarious, I completely agree with everything Jennifer wrote! Well-said Jennifer!
    • Whattintheworld  •  2 years 6 months ago
      Ummmm... the only one I keep hearing about the comparison between Megan and Angelina is, well, Megan.

      How about if Megan TRULY dislikes the comparison (yeah, right), then she stops making it?
    • jojo  •  2 years 6 months ago
      Beauty does fade and Megan will have to deal with that . I think she is pretty but, that does not mean every women on the planet hates her. Please. She seems to have a chip on her shoulder. She has a bad attitude. And I think that takes away from her physical beauty. Everytime she opens her mouth something rude comes out. Maybe if they quit giving her parts in movies she would be more grateful. I think it is only a matter of time until somebody shuts her up. AND I am tired of her telling how HOT she is! Sex is great but, she is not that special!!
    • leigh  •  2 years 6 months ago
      sounds like someone's a jealous old feminazi. or just plain ugly. i'm a girl and i think megan fox is hilarious. she acts a lot like i do, except i'm just some regular girl and she's a huge star. by the way, the new york times magazine is not always serious, they do regular issues on things like fashion, style, food, and pop culture. stop being so pretentious and affected.
    • Dot  •  2 years 6 months ago
      Fox is HOOOOOOT, but sometimes she just needs to shut her mouth and do some charity work, LOL. She needs to stop complaining about how women "react" to her and try to start winning them over. Im not jealous of her by any means, looking at gorgeous women is what makes me get off my a** and get to the gym. However, I get so sick of gorgeous girls that think they can say and do anything they want and it doesn't matter. She needs to set an example and do something that makes a difference, otherwise she will just be another pretty face in HollyWood that eventually fades.
    • diana  •  2 years 6 months ago
      Goodness gracious. We're jealous? I don't envy her beauty, theres always someone else prettier, get over it. And it isn't just women who don't like her much. Nearly all of the guys I know say "Yeah, she's hot. But her personality sucks and so does her acting."
      If it keeps going that way, you're going to be out of a job, hun.
    • Neffertidy  •  2 years 6 months ago
      I have not even read this yet, but what’s the big deal, who in the world said she was perfect or she came to the screen for you to like her as a person? She is human and can do and act and speak as she feels. It makes her no better or worse than the rest of us. So haters just give it a rest.
    • Melissa  •  2 years 6 months ago
      i think she's the most beautiful girl in the world! i hate feeling so jealous , but i don't hate her i don't even know her. i wish i looked like her~

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