amoralto:

September 5th, 1971 (St Regis Hotel, New York): Yoko tells writers Peter McCabe and Robert Schonfeld about how she tried to reach a common consensus with Paul after getting together with John. (Note: It is unspecified what prompted Paul’s arguable dietary advice, but it may have been in the context of Yoko’s pregnancy in late 1968.)

YOKO: I tried to be friendly with them, because I don’t want to be just—

JOHN: I’m sure you were friendly with them.

YOKO: I’m not thinking, you know, [of coming] into the family bit, but I try to be [a part of] the family as well in a way. So for instance, I told Paul, I said, “Paul, please understand this. If Linda gets a prize in filmmaking or something, or photography, ‘cause that’s her bit, we’re going to be all proud. It’s going to be good for The Beatles, it’s going to be good for all of us. And I would be proud of it, because she is one of the family. Now the thing is, so, I was an artist, I was working very hard at it until I met John. Please let me work, you know? And you obviously know that it’s very difficult to me to work now, the way it is, and I’m suffocated. Please, just, have some kindness and let me work. And make it easy for me to work, or help me. We should all help each other.” And then the next day, he came on saying, “You know, the doctor said you should really not be [inaudible] macrobiotic, you should start eating meat and all that. Linda was with the same doctor.” I said, “What?” […] And he said, “Well, you just told me that we should help each other, so I’m just giving you information.” But I didn’t mean that he should give me–biological information. [laughs] Help in work. Look, so, he’s–he didn’t really mean it badly, but he really don’t understand. He thinks a woman has to be like that.

THIS proves to me that Yoko wanted to be the 5th Beatle, but a mean Paul would not let her.

“I was working very hard at it until I met John. Please let me work, you know? And you obviously know that it’s very difficult to me to work now, the way it is, and I’m suffocated. Please, just, have some kindness and let me work. And make it easy for me to work, or help me. We should all help each other.”

Her views of what a family is, is fucked…it’s about WORK! ..and helping each other in WORK and not worrying about a family members health.

amoralto:

September 5th, 1971: In an interview with writers Peter McCabe and Robert Schonfeld, Yoko describes a contentious exchange she had with Paul in the initial stages of her relationship with John. (Note: While Paul’s inherited generational attitude at the time towards women and gender roles can’t be dismissed, keep in mind what Yoko represented to Paul in the context of his partnership with John in 1968, and how passive-aggression doesn’t tend to foster direct, emotionally vulnerable communication.)

YOKO: At one point I said, “Listen, I’m so much in love with John. I thought— I was an artist, and–and the last thing I would think of is–one last thing I would think of was to give up my work. But sometimes, because I’m so involved in his work, I feel like forgetting about my work. [inaudible] I’d be a masochist, now.” And [Paul] said, “Right. That’s good. And then also, you’ll feel happy with that. That’s women’s happiness.” He believes in that.



JOHN: Yeah.



YOKO: And he encouraged me to forget about my work, and said, “Listen. Be in the background. As long as you’re in the background, in the long run, that’ll turn [out] better for you, too.” 



JOHN: [hesitating] I–I don’t— 



YOKO: So he really wanted to make a “wife” out of me, you know.

Yoko is so full of shit here, trying to make Paul sound like a chauvinist.

I see it as a huge twist on what Paul really meant about her being in the background. Paul didn’t want her basically interfering with his and the rest of the Beatles work. Just because she was fucking John did not make her a Beatle like she obviously wanted to be.. Yoko being glued to John’s side during the recording sessions is HER OWN fault and she was the one wasting her time and not doing HER WORK. She could have told John NO but she didn’t… for reasons that Julian Lennon said in an interview..she had it all planned out and knew what she was doing. Yoko wanted to leach off the Beatles fame to benefit her career. Power, fame and money was what was most important to her for her work in her art. Getting her name known.

It sounds like to me Yoko wanted to be a PART of the creativity going on in the studio by giving her idea’s and opinions, and Paul said Yoko go do your own work and let us do ours. That is what Paul meant by being in the background. WHY would Paul want Yoko to waste her time doing nothing by sitting next to John’s side everyday instead of doing HER fucking work/ART.

Paul’s attitudes towards women? Paul’s own mother had a career, and so did Jane. If Paul felt that way about women staying in the background why did he want Linda to be part of his band Wings when she could have just stayed in the background backstage with the kids?