Tilda Swinton's open relationship: good for feminism, or just a bad idea?

BAFTA winner Tilda Swinton caused quite a stir on Sunday night when she arrived to the award ceremony with her young boyfriend, while her partner and father of her children, twin boys aged 10, babysat back home in Scotland. Swinton's partner of 18 years, 68-year-old John Byrne, says of their situation that they live "amicably" in the same house, that they're "the best of chums" and that, "We love our children and our children love us. The rest is business."

Swinton has explained their unique, open relationship as something very positive, just as Byrne did:"We are the best of pals and adore being parents and are devoted to that project. We ostensibly live in the same house, but I travel the world with another delightful painter." While open relationships are not my cup of tea, they supposedly work for some women. Personally, I can't help but point out that if this were a man traveling the world with a young painter, and the wife was left at home with the children and said she was okay with it, nobody (including me) would believe her. What do you think?

[via The Daily Mail]

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