Margaret Wente says she has a lot of sympathy for Tiger Woods and even likes him better now that he seems more human. I couldn’t disagree more. If the cheating stories are true, he’s just a regular, run-of-the-mill, jackass. Oh, and an idiot, too.
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Andrea adds: We sure are on the same page today, Brigitte. Couldn’t agree more. I might add that my family-friendly web site doesn’t allow me to use the words I might like to apply to a man–or woman–who cheats.
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Brigitte updates: Stories like this sure aren’t going to make me change my mind. And what about the kids, huh? How many millions of dollars is it worth not to mess up their lives?
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Interesting, my husband expressed sympathy for Tiger and said he should just be allowed to get on with his life, which included owning up to his mistakes and regretting them. To which I replied, and what about Mrs. Woods? is she just supposed to get on with her life?
So Tiger gets sympathy from some, while others like myself feel inclined to berate the man. Where is his wife in all of this? she doesn’t even seem to count.
What’s this? Are we more human, the more mistakes we make?
I certainly hope the best for Tiger Woods and his family, and truly hope they can overcome this so that their relationship emerges stronger. However, Tiger, for me, will never again have the aura of class and gentleman-like behaviour that he did before.
Margaret Wente is supposedly a bright bulb? She says about Tiger Woods: ‘Its not as if he moved a ball out of the rough.’ implying that the commitment to Pro Golf would be a BIG issue. Whereas fulfilling the promises he made to his wife should be understood as secondary to ‘fooling around – what alpha males tend to do’. To her the fooling around is not their problem. Their problem is stupidity, the stupidity in getting caught. Accompanying these bits of wisdom comes Wente’s thinking that she places Woods and the like on the pedestal of the immortal and is glad when they act to express mortal nature. So, cheating ,some cheating, is fine. Getting caught is the fault. We should place these ‘famous’ people on pedestals yet be glad when they express faults. Wente has a lot of sympathy for Woods but wouldn’t for politicians or priests – I guess sports leaders really are different and are to be understood. I wonder if Wente would point to sports figures as good role models?