Usually when I read celebrity profiles in magazines, I end up liking the celebrity a lot more. I feel like I know them better — I’ve figured out their likes and dislikes, their goals, their histories — and therefore I can relate to them more easily. So last week, when I came across an extensive article on Megan Fox in The New York Times Magazine, I fully expected it to put an end to my long-standing hatred of the actress / sex symbol and to help me see her in a new light. But somehow, the article made me hate her even more. When I asked my girlfriends what they thought about her I got an overwhelmingly negative response, yet every guy I know would do terrible things to spend five minutes in her presence. This paradox got me thinking: Why do women hate Megan Fox?

It can’t be just because she’s hot. It’s true that most women are intimidated by her power over men and her ice-queen-meets-femme-fatale image, but we can get over it. Plenty of actresses are hot, and women love them anyway — sometimes even more than men. Guys drool incessantly over Scarlett Johannsen, and girls still admire her red-carpet fashions and pour into theaters to see her movies. Natalie Portman is hot, and women everywhere still try to emulate her class and elegance while, simultaneously, guys fantasize about her other assets. These actresses, unlike Fox, have legitimate talent and are able to carry a movie on more than just their looks. So do we hate Megan because she can’t act?

I don’t think so. There are also plenty of hot actresses who can’t act, and we still love them. Take, for example, Lindsay Lohan (pre-disintegration), or Blake Lively. These actresses, despite their guy-friendly looks and lack of ability, have way more female fans than male ones. Our love of Lindsay — and other tabloid names like Britney Spears and the Kardashians — also proves that outrageous behavior does not a hated actress make. So we don’t hate Megan Fox for the ridiculous and outlandish things she says in Maxim and Us Weekly.

People say the unfriendly, unapproachable Megan is the next Angelina — the ultimate wild-child-turned-ice-queen — but we don’t even hate Angelina half as much as we hate Megan. At least Angelina is mysterious and incredibly talented, which makes her both terrifying and totally awesome in most women’s minds.

So, Megan Fox is intimidatingly hot, lacks any discernable acting skills and behaves outrageously. But, we don’t hate her for any of those reasons per se. We hate her because she’s so freaking ANNOYING. She’s been in two crappy action movies and one really crappy evil-zombie-man-eating movie, and yet she insists upon being taken seriously. She appears scantily clad in men’s magazines spewing scandalous quotes about sex and drugs to get attention, and she STILL insists upon being taken seriously. Despite presenting a raunchy, crazy, in-your-face image, she has never done one truly insane thing to back up such a reputation — it’s all a ploy to win more press.

She’s hot, and she knows she’s hot. While capitalizing tremendously on that fact, she tries to tell the world she’s also smart, funny and talented, despite mounting evidence to the contrary. (Jennifer’s Body, anyone?) She’s like that mean popular girl in high school, who you knew deep down had nothing going for her but who insisted she was way better than everyone else; she whined and wheedled and manipulated everyone around her to get what she wanted. Angelina has the whole package — smart, interesting, talented AND hot, but Megan is just a pale imitation, and her fame will soon fade along with her bottled black hair.