11.13.2006
I get the feeling here without wishing to be any more homophobic than I'm normally accused of, but in my part of country, almost every lesbian you run across tends to be someone who's just been in a couple of really bad marriages and despaired of men and I notice that in Europe, a sort of similar trend is that women who have been in a couple of bad marriages with western men basically embrace Islam as a way of, you know - and again, whether it's your sort of boorish English soccer lout or your kind of sweet, you know, new male that, "I'll do the ironing, darling" type, that it does seem that the women up here in the north country embrace lesbianism just as a kind of general weariness with the available range of males. So I noticed that there's something similar with the women in Islam in France and Belgium. (laughs)