HE A RAY SISS!
Posted on 12/08/2009 10:45:52 AM PST by GOPGuide
I expected this argument to be made, but not in the pages of the Washington Post; I assumed it would come as a blog post. Eugene Robinson takes leave of his senses in his attempt to spin Tiger Woods as either a racist or a self-hating minority — or a little of both — by complaining that Tiger’s mistresses have too much in common. Guess what that might be?
"Here’s my real question, though: What’s with the whole Barbie thing?
No offense to anyone who actually looks like Barbie, but it really is striking how much the women who’ve been linked to Woods resemble one another. I’m talking about the long hair, the specific body type, even the facial features. Mattel could sue for trademark infringement.
This may be the most interesting aspect of the whole Tiger Woods story — and one of the most disappointing. He seems to have been bent on proving to himself that he could have any woman he wanted. But from the evidence, his aim wasn’t variety but some kind of validation.
I’m making a big assumption here that the attraction for Woods was mostly physical, but there’s no evidence thus far that he had a lot of time for deep conversation. If adultery is really about the power and satisfaction of conquest, Woods’s self-esteem was apparently only boosted by bedding the kind of woman he thought other men lusted after — the “Playmate of the Month” type that Hugh Hefner turned into the American gold standard.
But the world is full of beautiful women of all colors, shapes and sizes — some with short hair or almond eyes, some with broad noses, some with yellow or brown skin. Woods appears to have bought into an “official” standard of beauty that is so conventional as to be almost oppressive.
His taste in mistresses leaves the impression of a man who is, deep down, both insecure and image-conscious — a control freak even when he’s committing “transgressions.”
Of all the issues in play with this story, and even with many that probably shouldn’t be in play, this is easily the most ridiculous. I haven’t seen much of the mistresses, and I hope to see even less as this story finally falls out of the media spotlight, but it seems to me that Tiger shockingly cheated with attractive women. And while his assignations may have required a certain amount of logistical planning to keep them from coming to his wife’s attention, it seems very, very unlikely that Tiger planned his infidelities in such a way as to keep diversity as his primary motive.
For that matter, let’s think about what Robinson considers “oppressive.” He’s angry to the point of dedicating a column to the issue that Tiger Woods didn’t exploit women of other colors, shapes, and sizes for sexual satisfaction. Was his extramarital attention to these women some kind of liberating experience for them, to the point where Robinson argues that Woods should have distributed the wealth a little more?
And can anyone who has had as many flings as Tiger apparently has, with as much indiscretion as has been exposed, possibly be considered a “control freak”? Is that why he’s managed to indict himself so thoroughly by giving his cell number out to his paramours while his wife has access to the phone?
Besides, no one knows whether we’ve seen the complete set of Tiger’s paramours. There may be more crawling out of the woodwork in the next few days and weeks. If one of them is a woman of color, or a little on the chunky side, will Robinson write another column hailing Tiger’s work in spreading the, er, wealth?
Woods has done plenty of wrong to his wife and his family, and to a much lesser extent his fans. Insensitivity to Eugene Robinson’s sense of exploitation diversity isn’t one of them. (via The Corner)
To me the person who will only date men/women of their own race are the racists and those that date women of another race are the ones practicing(Puke at the word)diversity.
The truth is the women he went with on the whole are hot. Skanks and whores(ho is not a word)but still hot.
If he only dated black women then he would be lacking in diversity and would be a true racist.
The left are totally insane for the most part.
Shockingly? What am I missing here? Did this nit wit expect him to go after homely women? I guess he expected Tiger to be an equal opportunity adulterer. What a putz!
Got’s me a hat...
“Salmon...the OTHER pink meat!”
Their ideology and worldview is based on lies and consists of insisting that their lies be made true.
ie, what do you expect?
I thought that was baloney.
Yeah, where are the pictures of the fat women (Big Beautiful Women)?
And where are the pictures of the truly ugly women?
And how about the gay guys? Is Tiger a homophobe?
He MUST sleep with EVERYONE if he is going to cheat with anyone.
That is the twisted logic of liberals. I don’t think even they know what they are talking about anymore — or can tell the difference — that there are reasons things happen.
Tiger has a fetish for women with hair.
Whoopie counts for two species.
Wonder what Robinson would write if Tiger only sought out black skanks, er ‘sex workers?’
Perhaps Tiger needs to establish a ‘skank culture initiative”.’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/24/AR2006042401395.html
Tough Questions in Durham
By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
The Duke University scandal is murky, like many cases of alleged rape — especially cases of alleged rape in which the accused can afford top-shelf legal counsel. It will be some time before we know what really happened that night between a house full of rowdy lacrosse players and the two “exotic dancers” they hired as entertainment, and it’s quite possible we’ll never have a truly satisfactory answer. What we do have are disturbing questions and a rich historical context. Those, for the moment, are more than enough to ponder.
The context? A bunch of jocks at an elite university in the once-segregated South — privileged white kids who play lacrosse, a sport that conjures images of impossibly green suburban playing fields surrounded by the Range Rovers of doting parents — decide to have a party, so they call an escort service and hire a couple of strippers. The hired help arrives: two black women, one of them a 27-year-old single mother who is working her way through North Carolina Central University, a decidedly proletarian institution across town. Within a few hours the woman becomes simply “the accuser” when she tells police she was raped by some of those white jocks.
That’s the basic scenario, and it’s impossible to avoid thinking of all the black women who were violated by drunken white men in the American South over the centuries. The master-slave relationship, the tradition of droit du seigneur , the use of sexual possession as an instrument of domination — all this ugliness floods the mind, unbidden, and refuses to leave.
(snip)
Several years ago we noticed Tiger Woods using the F bomb after a bad shot. The close up shot by the camera person caught it many times. We got sick of watching him. He has no image for us. He is another spoiled brat with a temper.
Barry Farber noted that very thin twelve years or so back. He said the problem with this country is that there is no shame. I have to agree with him.
Never been to Hong Kong, I take it.
Tiger is 50% Asian (Chinese & Thai) and only 25% black. If anything he should have dated a few Asian gals for diversity’s sake.
Tiger’s other 25% is Dutch and Native American. So he is 12.5% white I guess
I always assumed Tiger was a black dude with “some other”
Actually he is an Asian dude with “some other”
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WIKIPEDIA
Earl Woods a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran, was of mixed African American, Chinese and Native American ancestry. Kultida (née Punsawad), originally from Thailand, is of mixed Thai, Chinese, and Dutch ancestry. This makes Woods himself one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American, and one-eighth Dutch.[14] He refers to his ethnic make-up as “Cablinasian” (a syllabic abbreviation he coined from Caucasian, Black, (American) Indian, and Asian).[15]
That would put a different slant on the story.
Great job, Gene, another Pulitzer is in the mail!
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