Angie Returns!
"Why I Never See My Son"
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"I Had Affairs to Compete With David"
It's unfortunate that their kid didn't really have his mother in his life, but having an extremely unstable parent isn't healthy either, and she seems to have been very unstable indeed.
This makes me sad. Angie fell prey to the notion that feminists have been fighting for decades: that a man can give a woman success and fame on a platter, without her having to work for it and stand on her own two feet. Yes, they were both pretty progressive for their time, but considering when they were born, they still had all the sexist ideas of old drilled into their brains from childhood, and these came between them in the end.
If Angie had really wanted to be a star, she should have been working on it side by side with David in the early 70s. That would have been her time for success.
One thing I do appreciate about Angie is her forthrightness about bisexuality (hers and David's). He's a much more private person than she is, so it's very difficult to get any real information about his personal life from him, but she was always ready to talk honestly about it. Her comment about David and Mick shows how homosexual relationships in showbiz were done for a very long time - gay/bi/etc men & women had to be extremely careful to hide their loves and desires from the public, because the truth could have spelt their downfall. It is still this way today, though to a lesser degree.
The decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain in 1967 was a huge milestone for the queer community, but most performers and public figures were still very closeted during the 70s, including, strangely, David Bowie. He may have "come out" in the press, but he has never really been willing to have his homosexual relationships out in the open. This has put him in the awkward position of having to constantly answer questions about his sexuality, whereas if he had been openly dating men as well as women, people would have dropped the matter as having been answered.
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"I Had Affairs to Compete With David"
It's unfortunate that their kid didn't really have his mother in his life, but having an extremely unstable parent isn't healthy either, and she seems to have been very unstable indeed.
This makes me sad. Angie fell prey to the notion that feminists have been fighting for decades: that a man can give a woman success and fame on a platter, without her having to work for it and stand on her own two feet. Yes, they were both pretty progressive for their time, but considering when they were born, they still had all the sexist ideas of old drilled into their brains from childhood, and these came between them in the end.
If Angie had really wanted to be a star, she should have been working on it side by side with David in the early 70s. That would have been her time for success.
One thing I do appreciate about Angie is her forthrightness about bisexuality (hers and David's). He's a much more private person than she is, so it's very difficult to get any real information about his personal life from him, but she was always ready to talk honestly about it. Her comment about David and Mick shows how homosexual relationships in showbiz were done for a very long time - gay/bi/etc men & women had to be extremely careful to hide their loves and desires from the public, because the truth could have spelt their downfall. It is still this way today, though to a lesser degree.
The decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain in 1967 was a huge milestone for the queer community, but most performers and public figures were still very closeted during the 70s, including, strangely, David Bowie. He may have "come out" in the press, but he has never really been willing to have his homosexual relationships out in the open. This has put him in the awkward position of having to constantly answer questions about his sexuality, whereas if he had been openly dating men as well as women, people would have dropped the matter as having been answered.