"We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either"
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Domestic devotion, here, doubles as a quiet manifesto. Linda McCartney frames togetherness not as sacrifice but as preference: "because that's how we like it". The line has the breezy firmness of someone used to having her relationship treated as a curiosity - a famous couple as a public property - and answering without apology. It reads like a rebuttal to the cultural script that healthy love requires regular escape hatches: girls' nights, boys' nights, sanctioned separation to prove you still have a self.
The subtext is more interesting than the sentiment. Linda isn't just saying she enjoys Paul; she's rejecting a gendered social economy built on performance. "Girl's nights" and "the boys" aren't neutral categories; they're rituals where femininity and masculinity get rehearsed and policed. By confessing she "never used to go" even at school, she positions this not as post-Beatles codependency but as temperament: an enduring disinterest in compulsory social scenes and their low-grade competitive bonding.
Context matters because the McCartneys were a brand of intimacy in an era that rewarded spectacle and suspicion. Rock stardom ran on excess, touring, and liaisons; the wife was often a footnote or a warning label. Linda flips that narrative. The couple's closeness becomes a deliberate counter-myth to the romanticized solitude of male genius and the idea that women are meant to orbit rather than co-author a life. It's a small statement with a big cultural edge: opting out, together, and calling it freedom.
The subtext is more interesting than the sentiment. Linda isn't just saying she enjoys Paul; she's rejecting a gendered social economy built on performance. "Girl's nights" and "the boys" aren't neutral categories; they're rituals where femininity and masculinity get rehearsed and policed. By confessing she "never used to go" even at school, she positions this not as post-Beatles codependency but as temperament: an enduring disinterest in compulsory social scenes and their low-grade competitive bonding.
Context matters because the McCartneys were a brand of intimacy in an era that rewarded spectacle and suspicion. Rock stardom ran on excess, touring, and liaisons; the wife was often a footnote or a warning label. Linda flips that narrative. The couple's closeness becomes a deliberate counter-myth to the romanticized solitude of male genius and the idea that women are meant to orbit rather than co-author a life. It's a small statement with a big cultural edge: opting out, together, and calling it freedom.
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