Tiger Woods and HIS Issues - Does this affect YOU?
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 2:11PM Tiger, besides being articulate and rehearsed, don't you know what you feel? Why are you reading off that paper during your apology? How odd to claim that generally you are a private person but ... but what? You have a sex addiction! That isn't private, it involves multiple people, at multiple places, and multiple times. My issue isn't with you, it's with your fans. You hit balls for a living, you aren't making huge differences in the world by the stroke of a club (I could be wrong and super judgmental). We shouldn't be taking the side of his wife either, who has agreed to accept an apology. Let them sort this out, it's their "private" business. The only time his voice was raised with conviction, was when he tried to convince his public that his wife did not beat him within an inch of his truck and his life! Is who he was, is, and will be in the near future more important than the state of our world RIGHT NOW? While you're apologizing for your sex addiction while being a celebrity, three women were caned in Malaysia for what was suspected as committing adultery. Read more about this here too.
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I personally do not find any need to know of Tiger Woods affairs. It has no effect on bigger issues that are taking place. He should not have to apologize for his personal flaws to the entire America. Those who are his fans should realize that his affairs have nothing to do with his performance in Golf. Either way he is a great Golf player regardless of his affairs and after all its his skills in Golf that made him famous. I cant seem to understand why this is top news when there are life and death issues taking place through out America while Tiger Woods is apologizing.
A perfect example of what seems, in my opinion, more important is those three women that were caned in Malaysia for committing adultery. This is a horrible punishment for these women. So because Woods is an idol to many, he simply has to apologize and these women get caned. In both cases what Woods and the three women committed is personal and should be handled among themselves and spouses, not any system of laws and public.
To be honest I don’t care what Tiger Woods does in his spear time. His infidelities are issues that him and his wife need to deal with. Yes, he is a role model and I am sure his fans are upset because they see him as a person of integrity, but we are all human and we all make mistakes. There are bigger issues going on around the world and those are the issues we need to focus on.
His apology was rehearsed similar to that of Michael Vick and John Mayer. The fact is however, anyone can say sorry with their words but their actions is what is most important. Tiger Woods, whether it be his golf career or his private life, will not affect the economy or the severe situations in other countries. We need to focus on the big picture instead of little details if we are to fix our economy. If we compared this situation to the three women in Malaysia, its simple. Celebrities get more leeway than the everyday person. If they commit a crime their money and fame is their cushion. The average joe on the other hand only has his time that must be sacrificed to atone for the action. Its an unfair leverage in an unfair world sadly.
I agree with the above postings that what Tiger Woods does in his personal life should be kept personal, especially when it does involve a subject that is so private for him but also for his wife. Obviously he should have never cheated on his wofe with multiple women, but at the end of the day he is responsible for his decisions and he chose to sleep with all these women. He is not the first man to do this, nor will he be the last to cheat on his spouse. However, I think that his apology is not the most genuine, as it is definitely a media stunt. I don't think he should have apologized on air, reading from a script. Part of the reason why I don't think he should have apologized is because I don't care. He is an athlete not a representative for our country. Yes, he is a role model for upcoming African American golfers and athletes and other children, but I think there have been many incidents involving athletic role models, that it is time to change this. We should look towards a time when children look to teachers and doctors as role models. We should push for this to happen.
Finally, while I don't care whether Woods apologized or not, I do think that it would have been worse if he hadn't apologized. Everyone would ask, "Why didn't Tiger apologize for cheating, etc." So he apologized and his wife took him back. In what way does that affect our lives? Perhaps we won't buy a product that he endorses if we really think he is such a horrible person. Perhaps we will buy it because it is on sale. Whatever the case may be, he will be rehired one day. Even Elliot Spitzer has a job today.
I feel like the media has blown TigeWoods' situation out of control, there are many men who cheat on their wives and they are not made a spectacle of. I dont feel like what he did was right but I feel like that is he personal business. I'm sure he regrets what he has done but I think he made this public apology more to safe his repuation than to truly apologize to his wife because this was something he could have done in the privacy of his home rather than on national television.
Was Tiger Woods’ apology necessary? Yes. Should it have been televised? Yes and no. No due to the obvious, as the previous postings affirmed there are much bigger issues occurring around the world. Why should we squander our time listening to Tiger Woods’ rehearsed apology? The only time he possessed any type of sentiment in his voice was when he uttered that the rumors about his wife hitting him weren’t true, as the first posting mentioned. At that very moment I felt he was acting like saving his “manhood” was more important than him delivering a deeply sincere apology.
Sure he’s human and everyone makes mistakes, however, coincidently his mistakes resulted in him breaking the law. Sadly his family is being punished opposed to him being caned like the 3 women in Malaysia. With that being said, heck yeah, and I use that term loosely, a public apology was necessary. It’s only right that he apologizes to everyone for being a fraud. He’s getting all of this money to portray he’s every kid’s dream when he’s actually every wife’s nightmare. I completely agree - we shouldn’t side with him or his wife but I’m definitely siding with his little girl who is probably being teased at school everyday, all due to her father’s thoughtless actions.
This is bigger than him cheating on his wife, at least in my personal opinion. It’s literally his job to be a role model, particularly for children that are less fortunate and lack the existence of a positive male figure in their lives. Not to mention he gets paid handsomely to do so. Hopefully he’s learned from his mistakes and he plans to show and prove us all.
Actually this Tiger Woods issue does not affect me directly. It is horrible and retarded because it shows how men like Tiger who apparently have it all are so prone to be tempted more than once. It also shows how parents dont think about their children before acting crazy. That little girl probably never wants to make friends again. I could picture her friends ridiculing her and the people she meets asking her "Tiger Woods is you dad?!!" and walk away smirking. He got too carried away and I will never look up to him whatsoever. I dont see how anyone can look up to him after this. I dont believe his apology or his so called "issue" come on hes just trying to make it look pretty by covering it up.
Oh what a lot of bull. Quite frankly, Tiger’s life and Tiger having sex means nothing to me. I'm not having sex with him, so why do I care? This story is sensationalized and has taken on a life of its own. In his apology, Tiger talks about how "we" (his fans) have congratulated him, and cheered for him and now we deserve to be critical of him. Why is it "our" business though? Who cares if he repeats his mistakes? Is he not still a millionaire? Will sex stop coming his way? Will he stop cheating on his wife? Will that ding bat of a wife stay with him? I mean really. Who is to say any of this will happen, or not, and I still don't see how it affects me or why it's on my television screen?
What kills me is Tiger's back and forth between what is "our" business and what is "between a husband and wife." What he says to his wife and the apologies he gives her is between them, but he finds the need to go on national television to apologize to us? Now Tiger..this doesn't even make sense.
From a PR/celebrity point of view, this is genius of course. He has gotten more press and attention than any other golfer that I know. For heaven's sake, there is a song about him that says something like "I've got girls in different burbs..." and a girl on the track who says "Get em Tiger, Get em Tiger." To Tiger's PR person...congratulations, you know what you are doing.
As for the incident in Malaysia...it's sad what still goes on in the world today. The article says caning was once denounced and that "caning is tantamount to torture." To abuse three women as a way to "to educate and make the offenders realize their mistakes and to return to the right path" is just outrageous. Poor women. To educate? So education = abuse apparently. Sad.
What I don’t understand is why the world has to stop because Tiger woods cheated on his wife ? Society and the media places too much importance on celebrities actions and lives and doesn’t place enough on the regular mans life. If a regular man committed the same actions as Tiger Woods, it wouldn’t even touch the 10 o’clock news or matter at all. If a celebrity passes gas, its on TV 10 seconds later, sometimes its ridiculous what the news reports.
Does this mean that once you become a celebrity your life is much more important then everyone else’s. No matter how much Tigers actions offend us I don’t think it matter that much. It should be something him and his wife should sort out, its none of our business and its not of grave importance to me. Yes what he did was wrong but we are all human, no one is perfect. It in no way improves our lives for now or the future. Just reinforces the notion that most of the media is a joke.
The other thing that bothered me the most besides the story being on the news 24/7 was that out of all the woman Tiger has been accused of being with, not one of them were black. It just makes me wonder. Bu should it matter ? maybe that just his preference ? Maybe I shouldn’t care ?
At the end of the day this story left me disappoint, displeased and offend with the media and prove how big the problem we have of important getting to people.