navyasarchive:
There was really good commentary on this post about wanting to kill every man who has wronged Megan fox, which was that women, INCLUDING self-righteous, biphobic, more conservative feminists, have wronged her. And I think that really speaks to why I’ve always been alarmed by self-proclaimed feminists who claim that bisexual women are “sexually available” to men, and are undeserving of empathy, collective understanding, and humanity.
Megan Fox herself has said that she believes she will always be “outside” of the collective understanding on women confronting their assaulters and abusers. The reason even feminists turned against her and maligned her is because she is an “unacceptable” type of feminist to them. I don’t mean that conventionally attractive, feminine white women are oppressed. I do, however, mean that the reactionary, conservative factions of the feminist movement, who leech their way into other parts of the movement, spread this ideology of basing the value of a woman on how “deserving” she is of liberation. This value-judgment form of feminism is a grotesque misapplication of the “personal is political” mantra from the second wave, and in many cases, as in this case, it’s especially harmful toward bisexual women.
The same feminists who claim that bisexual women are promiscuous patriarchy-lovers, that they harm other women just by existing, that they are “available” to men and thus deserving of the violence they face, would be the same types of feminists who ignored her pleas for help. So it’s not just your average anti-feminist woman with “internalized misogyny” who hated Megan and ignored her when she was younger and more vulnerable - it’s also the most biphobic, sex negative, conservative, reactionary, possibly fringing upon radical feminist elements of the movement that legitimized the collective excommunication of Megan Fox.
It also speaks to how even within the feminist movement, there absolutely is a hierarchy that grades survivors based on how much they deserve support and empathy. We constantly see bisexual women falling in the “women who don’t deserve our support” category.
Frankly seeing people who aren’t bisexual women claim that they’re sorry and that she deserves better is kind of a slap in the face, but I’m glad that she’s finally getting the apologies she deserves, at the very least.