I’m not saying he didn’t have a problem with his marriage. I’ve known a few guys who seemed to be the same kind of idiot Tiger Woods was.
But…seriously… can we now simply leave Tiger Woods alone? Is it really anyone’s business what he and his family do from here?
To be brutally honest, can it be put out there, that maybe all that sex and excessive living “helped” him?
I’m not saying it’s okay or anything like that. But, I do believe that it’s an extremely personal matter. I think it’s wrong to think you can play doctor with the heads of public figures, because you think you can possibly “fix” someone.
To be your absolute best at something, sometimes you need an “outlet”. Jackson Pollack was an alcoholic. Some of the greatest writers and personalities of our times had some pretty seedy personal lives. I took a LOT of art, drama, and dance history to know that what we see today in celebrities is NOT any different than what was going on centuries ago.
If you knew about some of the things Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, did, you’d never want to read his stuff again. He was, in fact, a pedophile. He was also a math genius, and a brilliant linguist and, of course, writer. But you already knew THAT part. Another example would be Tchaikovsky – the composer of a huge repetoire of ballets (Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, etc). Did you know that he was homosexual and was forced to commit suicide after it was found out that he had an affair with the nephew in the Russian Czar’s court? Yep. He was put on trial (a small, private one, to protect his reputation – as he was still highly valued for his music and talent), and was found guilty. A large number of Russian male court members were homosexual. But because he had an illicit affair with a younger member of the family, he was put on trial. His punishment was to swallow a sizable amount of arsenic, in the court’s presence. The genius in this punishment created the perfect protection for the court, which satisfied the desire to keep everything quiet, while also allowing them to carry out “justice”. Arsenic actually takes a considerable amount of time to actually work. It’s not like ingesting cyanide. He fabricated a story to his friends, after he started showing signs of being sick, that he had accidentally drank some water tainted with cholera (his mother died this way). Anyway, to make a long story short, he was another example of an artist with an imperfect personal life – and suffered the consequences of it because of his celebrity status.
And do I need to remind anyone of one recently passed musician who had some personal foibles of his own? Michael Jackson…. We also put the guy on trial, in public, and pretty much ruined his musical career from that point. I didn’t care for him at all as a person. But I did respect his accomplishments and loved his music.
Once again – No one is perfect.
So back to my point. When the public steps in and tries to “fix” someone they don’t deem “mentally sound” – like someone with a “sex addiction” – they immediately wind up ruining such person. If Clinton had simply said “yeah, I banged Monica Lewinsky…so? It’s personal. Get a life.”, we’d all be enjoying post-Al Gore prosperity instead of post-GW Bush unemployment.
Tiger Woods sounded like a brainwashed robot yesterday. It made me sad. I can only wonder if that sex addiction clinic wasn’t some kind of cult-run place that uses the same kind of ideology that tries to say that homosexuality can be “fixed” and that you can “pray away the gay” if you simply try hard enough.
It’s all so creepy to think about.
Yes, the selacious details of his affairs were fun to read. But I’ve got a really big problem with people trying to make him into who we want him to be. I’d really rather have him sound like himself than some brainwashed zombie who’s been forced to repeat over and over again “sex is baaad”.
Ugh.
