Beautiful, Stupid People #1 – Megan Fox

The way the world works these days, we end up seeing a lot of pleasant looking people throughout our day. Every time we turn on the television, a good looking individual is there to offer us some sort of fragrance, loafer or weight loss product. When we travel, we see billboards festooned with images of attractive people telling us to go to a certain hotel or attraction. Movies, TV Shows, and now even cable news have become the domain of beautiful people.

Despite their modern omnipresence, it’s been humorously proven on frequent occasions that beauty does not always correlate with a great deal of wisdom or intellectual prowess. In fact, it sometimes seems as though the prettiest among us have the least to contribute when it comes to making good decisions or forming reasonable opinions. This realization has, unfortunately, not cut down on the amount of opinions that famously winsome folk share with the rest of us. We’d like to draw attention to a select group of these individuals whose beauty is matched only by the foolish advice on living and voting they insist on giving the rest of us.

Case #1 – Megan Fox

There is no getting around the fact that Megan is a head turner. Remember the first of those moving picture shows with the curly haired kid from Even Stevens? There were a whole bunch of semi trucks and pintos turning into robots until Megan appeared onscreen to fix a yellow automobile. Transformers afterword became markedly more interesting. Unfortunately, she is our inaugural nominee as a beautiful, stupid person. ‘Say it ain’t so, Joe… Goose!’ you might find yourself saying. Well, let’s just let Megan explain. This from the Showbiz Spy…

“If your idea of a role model is somebody who’s gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I’m not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.”

THAT’S RIGHT! Fighting for what you think is right, Megan! Just listen to your heart! It’s not about rules, laws, standards of behavior or any other item which may get in the way of whatever a person feels like at the moment. It’s about feeling STRONG! Like you could break through a brick wall from the sheer force of your hot-ness! That’s always seemed to work throughout history… …or… no? It hasn’t? Bisquick.

Fox’s wisdom does not cease there. Entertainment Weekly offers us this further glimpse into Megan’s mind…

“I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That’s what our purpose is in this business. You’re merchandised, you’re a product. You’re sold and it’s based on sex. But that’s okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.”

Now that is a statement. Note the seamless transition it can make when substituting the phrase ‘women in Hollywood’ with other terms like ‘lady of the night’ or ‘working girl’. Hmmm. This has always been a befuddling point to me in feminist orthodoxy. Women are to feel powerful, mighty, and indomitable by showing off their bodies. And yet they are to be respected because they are so much more than that. They are to highlight their looks and, in so doing, transcend them. Whaaaa?!

Congratulations to Megan Fox! Our 1st inductee into the hall of beautiful, stupid people.