Megan Fox Says She Wasn't "Included" By "The Feminist Community" Because She Wasn't A "Sympathetic Victim"

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“Whatever I provoke in them is not something that they can digest very well."

Megan Fox has a history of speaking out against misogyny in Hollywood throughout her career.

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In 2009, she gave an interview to Jimmy Kimmel in which she talked about how director Michael Bay cast her to dance under a waterfall while wearing a bikini when she was 15 years old. Watch it below:

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In a recent interview with Glamour UK, the actor talked about the reaction to her speaking out in the past.

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Megan says her comments predated the #MeToo movement "by almost a decade...way before people were ready to embrace that or tolerate it."

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"And I actually got ridiculed for doing it," she said. "I think people just have had time to review that, in retrospect.”

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Megan also said that she's "never felt completely included in the feminist community and I do still think that it’s tricky in an awful way."

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“Whatever I provoke in them is not something that they can digest very well. And so that comes back on me, as they reject me for those reasons."

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"And I just don’t think that I was a very sympathetic victim.”

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Megan says that she doesn't regret speaking out, but she does think that her personality and sense of humor is "so lost on people." " My intelligence is not acknowledged. And so that is a regret," she explains.

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"Sometimes I feel like I just waste my energy, giving myself to people who don’t understand and won’t appreciate [me], but I’ve never had anything where I look back now and think, ‘I really shouldn’t have said that.’”

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Read the entire interview here.

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