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When I was lurking in comic book fandom—this was several years ago now—the most bashed character was not female, as often seems to be the case in the fandoms I've been involved with, but was instead Iron Man (this was shortly before his first movie, when Iron Man was unpopular from his role in the Civil War storyline, where he supported the registration of superheroes and had a secret prison in the Negative Zone that was a blatant Guantanamo Bay analogue). But here’s the weird thing, even though Iron Man was one of my favorites, bashing of him didn’t bother me much. Maybe because the worst was passed by the time I became a hard-core fan of the character? Maybe I was sympathetic towards people’s reasons for disliking the character. Maybe I’m sexist; maybe female character bashing bothers me more.

But, you see, Cable bashing bothered me a bit. Cable (son of Cyclops and Jean Grey’s clone, raised by Cyclops and Jean in the future) was another character I liked who wasn’t very popular. He was at that time in the book Cable & Deadpool, co-starring with the far more popular Deadpool (brain damaged mercenary who breaks fourth wall). People who said they only read Cable & Deadpool for Deadpool and wanted Cable gone. So maybe it’s not character bashing that bothers me. Maybe it’s *relationship* bashing. So what bothers me about Torchwood fandom is not that they bash Gwen, but that they bash her relationship with Jack. And Buffy fandom, when fans bashed Buffy *because* they like Spike, they are bashing Buffy and Spike’s relationship. The same with Yoko Ono among Beatles fans, since I am invested in both her relationship with John Lennon and her non-relationship with Paul McCartney. In complaining that Cable & Deadpool has too much Cable, they were bashing Cable and Deadpool’s relationship.

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The Wedding Album is rather infamous, as it's basically nothing but her and John saying each other's names for 20 minutes.

Wow, you think they would have gotten bored making that.

I like a lot of her more pop songs, though. Her work on Double Fantasy and Approximately Infinite Universe is well worth checking out.

I have heard her Double Fantasy work, but only the occasional song from Approximately Infinite Universe. I have the problem wherein I dislike her voice, but I think she's a better songwriter than she's usually given credit for.

Yoko pretty much single-handedly turned him into a feminist.

selenak once made a great post detailing John's failing as a feminist, post-Yoko (for example, how badly he continued to treat Cynthia during and after they divorce), but she did have a huge affect on him, and he did do a lot of things he probably wouldn't have done without her. (becoming a househusband, for example).