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Amelia Earhart had an open marriage

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I like the way she worded that to her husband. Is that close to being barbaric?

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I haven't heard of this although I'm glad you posted it.

 

It's always hard to take a line from something and not see the whole context.

 

I'll be looking at the university, I'd like to see the whole letter.

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Y'know ... the strangest part of this to me is, I had always heard that Amelia was gay. I'm actually more shocked to learn she wasn't (or at least, not exclusively into other women) and that she was married.

 

**shrug** ...just goes to show that ya really can learn something new every day

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I don't know if she was bi or not, but I seriously doubt she was strictly lesbian. She referred to her marriage as a partnership, and by what's been shown apparently had an open marriage. But, she carried on a long, intimate relationship with a man prior to her husband, and she was engaged to this other man too.

 

She was an amazing woman, and her legacy is very inspiring. It's a bit sad that people focus so strongly on her disappearance, to the exclusion of who she really was, and the life she lived.

 

Well behaved women rarely make history.

 

Amelia was anything but well behaved.

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Considering the time period, if she was Bi or a lesbian, it was not unusual to get married so that one "conformed" to society's norms.

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Oddly I assumed this just reading her bio years ago. Her life just didn't add up.

 

She was also a crappy pilot and goes to show you what hype does over substance :rolleyes:

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ncmd_couple said:
Considering the time period, if she was Bi or a lesbian, it was not unusual to get married so that one "conformed" to society's norms.

I seriously doubt she would get married to conform to anyone's ideal. Her life was much the opposite of that.

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She was a very good self-promoter. The rest of her lifestyle is not inconsistent with that quality. I did a HS paper on her and learned a lot about her that was not in the "official" stories. Like many socially pioneering women of that era, the biographies that came out after her death either glossed over the "uncomfortable" and "illegal" (for that era) details.

 

Regardless of her shameless self-promotion and dubious flying abilities, I admire and respect her for her examples of nonconformity. I think she would have been someone I would have liked to have known.

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TheLorax said:
She was a very good self-promoter. The rest of her lifestyle is not inconsistent with that quality. I did a HS paper on her and learned a lot about her that was not in the "official" stories. Like many socially pioneering women of that era, the biographies that came out after her death either glossed over the "uncomfortable" and "illegal" (for that era) details.

 

Regardless of her shameless self-promotion and dubious flying abilities, I admire and respect her for her examples of nonconformity. I think she would have been someone I would have liked to have known.

Know sure, fly with? Not so much :lol:

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Many couples in that era had open relationships. Ernest Hemingway not only indulged his interests, but became friends with his last wife's lovers.

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Oddly I assumed this just reading her bio years ago. Her life just didn't add up.

 

She was also a crappy pilot and goes to show you what hype does over substance :rolleyes:

 

"Crappy" she may have been, but I wouldn't have set foot behind the rudder of a 30's plane for all of the gold in Fort Knox. That takes a pair far larger than mine...

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Wow, even more independent than I ever knew!

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