<![CDATA[Jezebel: oh, yoko]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: oh, yoko]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/ohyoko http://jezebel.com/tag/ohyoko <![CDATA[Yoko Ono Still Annoys Lennon Fans, 29 Years After His Death]]> I happened to catch a documentary about Yoko Ono on TV today. She was interviewed for it, as were a number of others, but unlike most of the artist bios that air on Ovation, this one wasn't exactly full of praise. The usual "Yoko broke up the Beatles" crap was brought up, but it was Camille Paglia who was the main voice of dissent (isn't she always?): Paglia says that her main gripe with Ono is that she stripped away John Lennon's British sense of humor because she thought it was too silly for such a serious era, which is an interesting, not entirely unfair assertion. Her unwavering "feminism-since-birth" is something to be admired, though.

]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5084857&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Men Need To Stop Pulling "Bobby Browns" On Women's Careers]]> Over on the gossip blog "A Socialite's Life," editors are asking if Paris Hilton is "pulling a Yoko" with her new relationship to Good Charlotte's Benji Madden. First off, mentioning Benji Madden and John Lennon in the same sentence is borderline blasphemous. But even more gratingly, for years "Yoko" has been a shorthand for a "controlling" girlfriend or wife whose association with a rock star broke up a band and ruined everything. Not only is the maligning of Yoko is sexist, since it's not really her fault that the Beatles dissolved, it needs to be said that women aren't the only significant others who muck up creative production. Which is why I think there needs to be a male "Yoko" equivalent. I nominate "Bobby Brown" as in, "Bill Clinton really needs to back off on Hillary's campaign trail or he's going to be a total Bobby Brown."

Whitney Houston was an apple-cheeked, church-going baby diva before hooking up with Bobby B, which turned her into a profusely-sweating, cocaine-snorting, reality television brawl having mess. Other famous examples of Bobby Browns include Amy Winehouse's drug-addled fool of a husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, Roseanne's moron of an ex, Tom Arnold, and of course, Kevin Federline. Can you think of other Bobby B.'s littering the pages of history?

Is Paris Hilton Pulling A Yoko? [A Socialite's Life]

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