"I think people are born bisexual and the make subconscious choices based on the pressures of society. I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who is bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never sleep with a girl who had slept with a man"
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Megan Fox’s quote lands like a double take: it opens with a progressive-sounding certainty about sexuality, then swerves into a blunt, almost tabloid-confessional prejudice. That whiplash is the point. She’s not performing a polished “ally” script; she’s airing the messy circuitry of desire and disgust in the same breath, and that unfiltered contradiction is exactly how celebrity honesty becomes cultural content.
The first move is essentialism with a conspiratorial edge: “born bisexual” plus “subconscious choices” under “pressures of society.” It frames queerness as both natural and routinely rerouted by social enforcement, a tidy explanation that flatters her self-knowledge while indicting the culture. Then she detonates her own credibility with “I’m also a hypocrite,” as if preemptive self-awareness could launder the bias that follows.
The subtext of the second half isn’t really about bisexual women; it’s about men as contamination. “Men are so dirty” reads less like literal hygiene and more like moral revulsion, an old patriarchal script flipped sideways: male sexuality as taint, women’s bodies as vessels that can be “spoiled” by association. In that sense, her biphobia is a cousin of the same policing she claims society imposes - just rerouted into her dating preferences, where prejudice can masquerade as taste.
Context matters: Fox’s public image has long been shaped by hypersexualization, male gaze politics, and the expectation that she be simultaneously desirable and dismissive of desire. The quote captures a celebrity trying to seize authorship over her sexuality while still trapped in the cultural grime she’s naming.
The first move is essentialism with a conspiratorial edge: “born bisexual” plus “subconscious choices” under “pressures of society.” It frames queerness as both natural and routinely rerouted by social enforcement, a tidy explanation that flatters her self-knowledge while indicting the culture. Then she detonates her own credibility with “I’m also a hypocrite,” as if preemptive self-awareness could launder the bias that follows.
The subtext of the second half isn’t really about bisexual women; it’s about men as contamination. “Men are so dirty” reads less like literal hygiene and more like moral revulsion, an old patriarchal script flipped sideways: male sexuality as taint, women’s bodies as vessels that can be “spoiled” by association. In that sense, her biphobia is a cousin of the same policing she claims society imposes - just rerouted into her dating preferences, where prejudice can masquerade as taste.
Context matters: Fox’s public image has long been shaped by hypersexualization, male gaze politics, and the expectation that she be simultaneously desirable and dismissive of desire. The quote captures a celebrity trying to seize authorship over her sexuality while still trapped in the cultural grime she’s naming.
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| Topic | Equality |
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