# Was Yoko Ever Hot? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847 "2007-01-13T17:46:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/21 "2007-01-13T21:06:15Z")
I’ve always found that a plain looking woman with a fantastic singing voice can gain a point or two on a scale of 1-10. Yoko loses a few points in that regard, in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/22 "2007-01-13T21:06:46Z")
This is why I read CS: for these intelligent discussions on the arts. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/23 "2007-01-13T21:08:35Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] A hot woman likes men and sex (or women and sex, if she’s gay). And on both counts, I say “O no” to Yoko. [/QUOTE] How in the screaming bloody fuck would you know? ---
**Author:** ![VoodooDoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85f322/32.png) [@VoodooDoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VoodooDoll)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/24 "2007-01-13T21:09:05Z")
I wouldn’t say she’s photogenic, but I think she looks pretty lovely in [this picture](http://www.new-york-art.com/Yes-Yoko-2.jpg)\* from her preformance work “Cut Piece” (1965). I definately think she looks a lot better in motion and in person than she does in still images and that she has aged well. \*this picture is safe for work, but the preformace itself involved her inviting the audience to come up onto the stage and cut her clothing off. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/25 "2007-01-13T21:10:55Z")
[QUOTE=bienville] She doesn’t look horrible in that pic. You’re a bit of a harsh judge. [/QUOTE] Meh. Whatever. Scroll down and hit the link for the gallery on that page. Personally, I think Yoko’s just a few bristles shy of being a beast. But Lennon saw something else in her and that’s all that really matters. _De gustibus_ and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/26 "2007-01-13T21:26:19Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] I always thought she was a handsome woman. But I always thought she couldn’t sing. If I had to choose between her and bagpipes, I guess my head would explode. [/QUOTE] Yoko singing accompanied by bagpipes would make a Vogon’s head explode. :eek: Not hot. Mildly attractive thanks to a really good photographer at best. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/27 "2007-01-13T21:49:27Z")
Yoko always had a nice chest… but hot? No. Never. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/28 "2007-01-13T22:10:49Z")
Was she ever westernized “Lucy Liu-esque” hot? No. Was she ever "Lovely in an uncomplicated way"hot? Yes, I think so. I also think that she was a well respected artist before she met John, and find the OP sort of odd. It’s like asking if [Pablo Picasso](http://www.leksikon.org/images/picasso_pablo.jpg) was ever “hot”. No, not really, but that wasn’t really the point. She can’t sing though. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/29 "2007-01-13T23:24:04Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] It’s like asking if [Pablo Picasso](http://www.leksikon.org/images/picasso_pablo.jpg) was ever “hot”. [/QUOTE] _Well, the girls would turn the color of An avocado When he drove down their street in his El Dorado He could walk down your street And girls could not resist his stare **Pablo Picasso** never got called an asshole Not like you_ – The Modern Lovers, 1975 ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/30 "2007-01-13T23:45:05Z")
[QUOTE=Sam Stone] Never very good looking. But that only raises John Lennon in my estimation. When you can have any number of ‘hot chicks’, it’s nice to see someone not give a damn… [/QUOTE] Well he did ditch his wife Cynthia.. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/31 "2007-01-13T23:52:24Z")
“Butt ugly”? “Ick”? “_Just a few bristles shy of being a beast_”? Jesus, people, what kind of standards do you have? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/32 "2007-01-13T23:59:25Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] In the eye of the beholder. People think [this guy](http://images.art.com/images/-/Steven-Tyler---Aerosmith--C10045642.jpeg) is hot (shudder). Not my cup o’tea but I’m likely not his. In [this image](http://www.johnlennon.it/beatles%20pics/lennon-ono-6.jpg) I’d say she comes off the cuter of the two but again, à chaqu’un son goût. [/QUOTE] She’s kind of cute-lost in that pic. The Steven Tyler one is a bit frightening, IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/33 "2007-01-13T23:59:27Z")
[QUOTE=alice\_in\_wonderland] Was she ever westernized “Lucy Liu-esque” hot? [/QUOTE] Lucy Liu’s not hot either. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/34 "2007-01-14T00:03:22Z")
[QUOTE=MsWhatsit] In [this shot](http://www.harmonicslife.net/Blog/2005/JLennon/lennon-beautiful_s.jpg), she isn’t so bad. I don’t know if you’d go so far as to say hot, because I’m a chick and therefore a bad judge of such things, but I suspect there are plenty of folks who wouldn’t have thrown her out of bed for eating crackers. [/QUOTE] They’re both pretty attractive in that photo and I typically think they’re both rather awkward looking at best. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/35 "2007-01-14T00:03:39Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Lucy Liu’s not hot either. [/QUOTE] Well, I’m not a Brad Pitt fan myself, but I’m willing to bet that a majority of men probably think that Lucy is a hottie. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/36 "2007-01-14T00:06:37Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] “Butt ugly”? “Ick”? “_Just a few bristles shy of being a beast_”? Jesus, people, what kind of standards do you have? [/QUOTE] Different than yours, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/37 "2007-01-14T00:23:29Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] “Butt ugly”? “Ick”? “_Just a few bristles shy of being a beast_”? Jesus, people, what kind of standards do you have? [/QUOTE] I agree with your incredulousness. If the pics presented in this thread represent butt ugliness and near-beastliness then close to 90% of the female population must look so horrifying it’s a wonder any of us can get laid. I think she looks quite pretty in all the pics shown so far. If I was in a more catty mood, the worse I’d call her is plain. But even that is too harsh, IMO. Being that I’m a strongly straight women, I don’t feel qualified to speak on the “hot” thing. But I see an attractive woman when I see Yoko. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/38 "2007-01-14T00:32:29Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Lucy Liu’s not hot either. [/QUOTE] :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/39 "2007-01-14T00:33:55Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] “Butt ugly”? “Ick”? “_Just a few bristles shy of being a beast_”? Jesus, people, what kind of standards do you have? [/QUOTE] Ones higher than her, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847/40 "2007-01-14T00:35:19Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Lucy Liu’s not hot either. [/QUOTE] I have to back up **Frank** on this one. [Michelle Yeoh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Yeoh), on the other hand, could rock my world seven days a week, and twice on Saturday. That is, if she was interested. If anybody wants to pass the message along to her, I’d be grateful… Stranger [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-yoko-ever-hot/387847.md?page=3)