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quinn222 at 05:48am on 11/03/2005
quinn222 at 05:48am on 11/03/2005It's Friday and I am getting off work at 2:30 in the afternoon. It's like a miracle. Everyone keep your fingers crossed that they don't make me stay longer!
For those interested in Brian's description of sexuality in Morocco Here is a very interesting article about it.
For those interested in Brian's description of sexuality in Morocco Here is a very interesting article about it.
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The linked article is an eye opener. I have to say that this is the kind of cultural practice that keeps homosexuality and bisexuality simmering below the surface in certain culture. I have an Arab friend who said there's no homosexuals in her ccountry (she hails from Saudi Arabia). It was all I could do to keep from looking at her incredulously (it was late and I was tired).
It illustrates the merging of oppositional/dichotomic thinking that keeps most people (in that culture) from noticing it versus the foreigners (who approach it differently).
I may have to start opening my eyes when I'm back in Malaysia. Only I'd say my culture is more inclined towards lesbianic relationships. Two men can live as roomates/housemates up to a certain age, then you are expected to marry. But two women living together won't raise any eyebrows, because it is the men who do the asking. If a woman is not married, that's because no man had asked her.
If a man is unmarried after he is financially solvent, that is a cause for concern. So, if you (a man) don't want to be nagged by meddling relatives, you get married. If you don't have a candidate, don't worry your mother/older female relatives will find the suitable woman; one who suits your status.
Though I do know of an openly (again, a relative term, here), gay man, who is open about his relationship and nobody talks about stoning him or anything. In fact, his boyfriend came over to take care of him when he was recovering at his mother's from an automobile accident. Everybody seems to treat him as a joke, in an affectionate kind of way.
I really think the problems gays seem to have in 'open' societies like the US is their fight for official and legal recognition.
I'm sorry if I post an unwanted babble in your journal. :)
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Not at all. Your observations are really interesting. It's so true that we often don't see what is close to us while someone from the outside will spot it instantly.
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Very interesting that it happens in Morocco, too, though of course with an Islamic slant.
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