The co-host of "The View" said older women who have led heterosexual lives are choosing same-sex partners because men their age are chasing younger women. “Being gay is not just holding hands and walking through the tulips,” Behar argued. “I don’t think you suddenly wake up one day and say, ‘Oh, I wanted to do that.’ You wanted to do it, but you were just trapped in a system that has just said, ‘get married.’” 
 
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 Written by Castina on July 28th, 2010 | Tagged as: Elisabeth Hasselbeck,The View
– She's blabbed about everything from Erin Andrews' outfits to her own nipple, and now Elisabeth Hasselbeck is sharing her theory of lesbianism. The conservative View co-host says older women become lesbians simply because they just can't land a man, reports the New York Daily News. "All the older men are going for younger women, leaving the women with no one," she says. Hasselbeck told viewers that lesbians link up for companionship, not sex—a claim which her co-host, Joy Behar, called "ridiculous." "Being gay is not just holding hands and walking through the tulips," Behar says. "Oh Elisabeth," quips Pop Crunch, "it takes real work to make Sarah Palin look like the smartest Republican with a vagina."