On infidelity

Apr 11, 2010 23:40

So who else is as sick of the public flagellating of Tiger Woods as I am, both by himself and others? I so wish he'd tell everyone to STFU!


Here's a society in which people fall over themselves to forgive and excuse a man (Roman Polanski) for raping a 13-year old girl, but just can't stop wagging its collective finger at a man who has 100% consensual sex with adults over whom he has not one iota of power. Tiger Woods is a golfer! An incredibly hot one! Since when is a man supposed to be some kind of moral virtuoso because he can hit a ball really hard?

That people are getting their panties in a bunch over the fact that a gorgeous, wealthy, athletic, famous person had affairs leaves me near-speechless. This is a surprise? I'm guessing the finger-waggers are the type of people who claim to just KNOW they'd never cheat. Even if they had beautiful people making themselves available for hot, string-free sex all the time, and were away from their spouses for long periods. I don't know what I'd do in those circumstances. And then, after the first slip, think of how easy it would be to just keep on slipping...

If I was with a man who said he'd never ever cheat, no matter what, he was just so completely 100% sure, I'd start feeling really leery about him. I'd be pretty certain that he didn't know himself all that well, and couldn't roll with all the insane stuff life throws at you.

What consenting adults do with each other is their own business. If someone wants to stay with a spouse who cheats, that's not my business; if someone wants to leave a spouse who cheats, that's not my business; if someone decides that they never want to get married, and just want to sleep around, that's not my business; if someone decides never to have sex, that's not my business; if someone decides they want to have an open marriage in which they have weekly orgies, that's not my business unless the orgies keep me awake at night.

As for the argument, that I've seen so many times it makes my eyes cross, that Tiger Woods had some sort of responsibility because he was schilling for Buick: puh-lease. He's a talented athlete who looks good on camera. I don't think there's a clause in any of his contracts that says, "and also, we can tell you what you may and may not do with your penis." Unless he's working for Disney, because their contracts are scary. You work for them, they OWN you.

Where was I? Oh yeah, Tiger Woods' sex life -- look, I like to picture him naked as much as the next red-blooded heterosexual woman, but that doesn't mean I have a right to know what he's doing while he's naked.
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