Megan Fox FAIL
By Dr. Charlie Glickman • May 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog
So the blogs are a-buzzing about Megan Fox coming out as bisexual. When I first heard about it, I thought “Great! We need more queer celebrity visibility!” There are so many celebs who are other than straight that stay in the closet and I get fed up with their silence. It only reinforces homophobia.
But then I read this little gem that fell from her lips:
But I’m also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I’d never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man.
WTF? So she wouldn’t sleep with herself? Does she think that she’s dirty? After all, she has sex with men, so I suppose she’s calling herself a dirty women (and not in a hot, sexy way).
OK, she gets a few points for acknowledging her hypocrisy, but you’d think that she’s never heard of safer sex, STI testing, honesty between partners, or the fact that lesbians get STIs.
Granted, it’s definitely true that being on the receiving end of penetrative sex involving a penis puts you at higher risk than most other sexual activities. But there are so many myths and prejudices about bisexuals out there that for her to perpetuate them like this makes me really angry. Most bisexuals aren’t seething cauldrons of germs waiting to attack you.
This seems like it’s part of that whole “soiled woman” trope. And that’s so out of date that I’m not even going to get into that.
Big FAIL!!
Dr. Charlie Glickman >> Dr. Charlie Glickman has been working at Good Vibrations since 1996, when he joined the staff at our Berkeley store. Currently, he is our Education Program Manager and (among other things) runs our in-store After Hours workshop program, our Off-Site Sex Education Program, trains our Sex Educator-Sales Associates and writes copy for our website. In 2005, Charlie received his doctorate in Adult Sexuality Education from the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition, he offers classes on sexuality for psychotherapists and workshops on teaching for sex educators.
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