Can someone explain to me what’s so wonderful about Yoko Ono? Whatever did Lennon see in her? Humorless, talentless, ugly, selfish—what’s the appeal? And don’t bother telling me it was something she did in the bedroom. I’m sure Lennon could have had anything he wanted in that department.
She was a lady similar to Alma Mahler. They both had an affinity for great men. It’s a type. Her first husband was a serious well-regarded composer, Toshi Ichiyanagi, but she soon became more enamored of a kind of celebrity that had more to do with newness for the sake of oddness. Thus her second husband. And thus her third, perhaps the uber-celebrity of that time John Lennon. She had a way of winning them over, probably more to do with their ego than sex.
I can only assume John saw something in her that wasn't obvious to the rest of the world. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.
But, yes, she's humorless, talentless, and ugly. But that's really her appeal. It's really the same attitude that raises common spray paint vandalism to the status of art, and rapping to the status of music. This is the attitude that any form of expression that doesn't come from the old American white male is somehow more valid and more worthwhile, and the hipster espouses such things simply because all the other hipsters do.
To the hipster, it doesn't matter that Yoko's singing sounds like fighting cats. What's important is that she's a nonwhite female from a nonwhite culture. They don't have to enjoy or understand it, they only need to understand that it's hip.
Hipsterism goes hand-in-hand with liberalism. They are inextricably intertwined.
John Lennon started out tough but weakened his mind via LSD and other drugs. This is how Yoko got her hooks into him. Lennon tried to escape to California for ~18 months but came back and submitted to mommy (or mother), as he often called her. Yoko was seven years older.
Drugs probably destroyed the sensory perception center of his brain. That's the only explanation.