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So Tiger did what he had to do to salvage his career and the gazillion dollars he makes from being the best golfer on the planet. I really don’t care except to note that as a fellow human being, I hope he honestly works it all out.
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As a strong proponent of equality, what gives here?
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(Hat Tip: Crooks and Liars)
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Yeah!!!
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On the shallowness of both Woods and his adoring fans…
No one mentions that this was one twisted, greedy human being from the get-go. Tiger Woods is what happens when you turn your child into a machine.
Pity his father, Earl Woods, is no longer around to see the destruction he has wrought. The infant who was on television putting against Bob Hope when he was 2 years old, the 3-year-old who shot 48 for nine holes, the teenager who stepped into a multi-million-dollar Nike contract before he won his first pro tournament, has finally broken out of the carefully constructed shell.
Predictably. What Tiger Woods, his father, his handlers and his sponsors failed to understand was the simplest of all truths: we are human. We are not robots.
The human Woods kept trying to break through the robot. We caught glimpses and they weren’t pleasant: The petulant child hurling his clubs and swearing when a shot goes awry. The swearing. The dirty, leering jokes.
The arrogant brat who does his famous drive-by every time he passes the autograph hounds waiting after round, refusing to do a Phil Mickelson and spend 15 minutes signing autographs for the adoring gallery.
The greedy walking corporation who made it eminently clear from the beginning that he didn’t care about the Asian sweatshop workers who were turning him into the wealthiest athlete on the planet. The American of mixed racial heritage who couldn’t care less about politics at home, where people of colour have suffered and bled for 300 years.
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In two or three years (if not sooner) most of this will be forgotten. Woods will be divorced, he’ll have as many mistresses as he wants, he’ll go back to winning majors, raking in millions and endorsing half the products on the planet. Why will he get away with it? Because sports fans want someone to worship, and the bottom line is that they don’t care if the man inside is worse than Tony Soprano.
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…he’s not a hero. Never has been, never will be. Because for openers, if you’re not a hero to your own family, you’re nothing.
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