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Woods and the three strikes
[QUOTE=Memahu;1414344]There's going to be a movie about Tiger Woods' extra-marital affairs.[/QUOTE]Woods deserves all the flak he has taken. If he had never gotten married, there would have been no sex scandal. He would have been just another bachelor playboy the envy of everyman. But he did get married, partly for cynical and business reasons the way I see it as he paraded his wife and the kids and the dogs in carefully crafted photos on his website no doubt mainly for corporate consumption and to increase his "family man image" and up his status with his "business partners." To jack up valuation of Tiger Inc. He wanted his family image and he wanted to chase every tail. He wanted his cake and eat it too. How naive to think that his "affairs" will never come out. Strike one.
What happened during his downfall? Where did racism come in? True, as the scandal broke every racist that hated him did come out of the woodwork. But if racists could not stop the rise of Woods, racists were not instrumental in the fall of Woods. Nobody batted an eyelash when he married a blonde Scandinavian. This is not the racist America of decades past. But the way Woods went from one white mistress to another, something happened in the collective subconscious. In essence, all the smirks and snickering about Woods scandal had to do with Woods turning himself into the most ingrained and longest lived stereotype and caricature America has had about a Black man with respect to his uncontrollable desire for white women. Woods just played right into this undercurrent of prejudice that has never gotten away and never will in an America that is less and less racist. For a man who has been so calculating in creating and protecting a public persona, how he missed this racial angle and allowed himself to turn into a caricature I cannot believe. Strike two.
But he is not Black man you say. He is a multiracial cultural icon, the ONE who would redeem golf from its racist history of exclusion and discrimination. This is the wishful thinking story a politically correct media and public wanted to believe. And he got the support and help from the sympathetic media and public. Now he did not need the help and support to become a great champion. His golf game and mental toughness were responsible for his victories. But neither did he shy away from the politically correct support, beginning with Fuzzygate. Once Fuzzy was crucified for a few jokes, the message sent was loud and clear. Woods the multicultural icon has politically correct protection. Any criticism of him, valid or not, could be and most likely would be construed as racist. And for years on end the media gave him passes that they would not give to others. But when the scandal broke, it was like a floodgate that has been opened. All the politically correct constraints imposed by adherence to multiculturalism seem to have been broken. And the media poured on the criticism against Woods, more so than I think they would have had there been no politically correct protection before. And it was not easy to take down Woods PC protection. What is the other foundation of PC in addition to multiculturalism? It is feminism. Woods betrayed his wife and family AND he treated other women like sex objects. He incurred the wrath of feminism and the poor man did not know what hit him. And it really took this violation of this PC standard of feminism to breach the armor afforded by his multicultural iconic status that has always been enough to protect him against racism. Strike three.
That is how I see the way his scandal unfolded. Fascinating story of the converging forces of multiculturalism, racism, sexism and feminism. And don't get me started on Michelle Wie.