A friend asked me what I thought Tiger should do, given the mess that he’s got himself into, when he was suppose to be just a boring family man. We did not know he meant the whoring kind of boring, not snoring. While I’m at it, why is it that women are called whores, and not men? Somebody needs to explain that one to me.Anyway, I’m not sure he can salvage his marriage/family. Neither Tiger, nor his Swedish wife Elin, seem to be deep-rooted folks – a prerequisite for weathering these knotty emotional storms. They are both missing real educational experiences that would have accelerated maturity. Sure, Tiger went to Stanford for two years, but you can bet most of that time was spent on the links, not growing up. I have found no record of Nordegren ever attending college; rather she au-paired her way into the pro golf crowd, and into Wood’s life.
In fairness to both of them, the golf crowd is not deeply-rooted either. Golf, like baseball and tennis, is a hand-eye coordination game requiring early and fanatical dedication, leaving little time for outside development. It doesn’t seem that Earl Woods spent enough time growing up the man, as much as he did the golfer. I think a hard look into the elder Woods’s will tell more of the story of the boy who would grow up to be Tiger. These are the skeletons whose existence is now in evidence, via Tiger’s man-boy sexcapades. Earl, Katilda, get ready for your proctologic exam, and rest assured that the conclusions ain’t gonna be pretty. I have already seen sleazy questions of how Katilda, a Thai, made her way to Vietnam to meet Tiger's father, Earl, during the war. Nasty stuff is coming.
Regardless, Tiger’s option seems clear, get back on Nicklaus major’s record trail. Pursuit of Jack is Tiger’s only savior. For now, he will need to accept that the endorsements will shrink. He will probably want to sell the yacht to cut expenses. Only winning will bring everyone back to the time of galleries looking for miracle shots and fist pumps. Winning brings forgiveness, deserved or not; otherwise Tiger is that slice of Caliblasian bread that got itself stuck in the toaster, when he thought nobody was looking.
James C. Collier
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While I’m at it, why is it that women are called whores, and not men? Somebody needs to explain that one to me.
ReplyDeleteTsk, tsk, Jim, the most basic tenets of human biodiversity will explain that one. But no one around here believes it.
I'd say that it a male-centered pejorative used on women, whose sexual behavior is thought to encourage a result where men are less confident that their progeny of record are true. But, selfish male pursuit is a prime ingredient, so where's the pejorative for men? I'm all ears Dennis.
ReplyDeleteI like the metaphor in your last line, but I can't agree with another part of your post, if I'm reading it right. Are you saying that having a college degree makes a person more likely to be in a lasting marriage? If so, got any stats on that?
ReplyDelete@macon, I am not saying that a college degree changes one's divorce probabilities. Rather, education is a natural accelerant to maturity, as is world travel.
ReplyDelete@James, you so over estimate a college degree my friend. I know plenty of college degreed people that have absolutely no clue. Just as I know plenty... well some, prison inmates that have great maturity and perspective on life.
ReplyDeleteCollege is no more a self reflection accelerator than the streets.
I challenge you to produce stats or even logical scenarios that would prove your statement.
In my opinion, any person that experiences enough life to draw a conclusion that self reflection is in order, will mature.
It may manifest in the form a street drug dealer to go legit, a wealthy, womanizing bachelor to settle down with one woman. Just as both situations can lead to no self reflection and both fall victim to their lifestyle.
I personally wonder if it’s in the DNA why some people are able to self reflect and change, while others just don’t seem to get it.
It’s an amazing thing.
If it isn’t obvious from my posts, I don’t have a degree but have a successful career as an IT Director for the court system where I live. I’m a young black man who grew up in the inner city where gangs and drugs where as common for young boys as visiting the library is to a college student. I just celebrated my 15 wedding anniversary and have a great life with my wife and family.
I do have some college, but didn’t start until after I began my career. College had absolutely nothing to do with my maturing, leaving the streets and going legit. I traded a 10k a month drug business for a job that paid me $5.75 per hour at the age of 21. I made that choice because I married and had a child. To be honest, I give all the credit to God, as I don’t know how I was able to make that decision and know plenty of people who did not.
I know I’m speaking of my experience, but I know that I am not an anomaly. I think you may be speaking from your experience as well and may be a little sheltered or naïve to other experiences.
There are many paths to maturity, it all depends on where you start.
As you can see, I’m enjoying your blog. I’ve posted almost every day since I discovered it a week or so ago.
Man... I didn't even get to Tiger.
sonny, I think college has a lower risk/higher expected value, over drug-dealing, for getting someone to the 'good life' (but I am happy you made it). My assessments carry an implied on-average probabilistic caveat spread out over millions of people. Humanity's relentless pursuit of learning is no better indication of its efficacy, no matter where it happens, but I believe it is most concentrated dosage is in the classroom, but I will agree I am biased. Glad you are enjoying the blog.
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ReplyDeletewhatever happened to the link to stuffwhitepeopledo site ? You removed it.
That might not be such a bad thing, given that there's no way in hell the readers of that blog and yours could ever agree on anything. For those who are wondering : stuffwhitepeople do is the kind of blog where white people try to outshine each other in seeing who will grovel and crawl and apologize and hate themselves the most for merely being white. It features a cast of mostly extreme left white women antiracist activist types, self styled allies of that abominable nonsense category called "people of color" aka POC. The other half is a bunch of angry negro types who lash out right and left at those cowering white folks.
ogunsiron, you're a great comedian! That's a wonderful caricature of people who misunderstand what "stuff white people do" is all about.
ReplyDeleteIt's not about, or for, people who hate themselves merely for being white. It's about common white tendencies. Big difference.
Being raised in a society in which white supremacy remains a de facto reality instills common white tendencies in most white people -- one of them is not even realizing that the U.S. remains a de facto white supremacist society. And most (not all) white people don't even realize that they have the kinds of common white tendencies that "stuff white people do" is dedicated to describing. But, on the other hand, many, many non-white people do realize that most white people have common white tendencies. Indeed, non-white people tend to know more about what it means to be white than white people themselves do; since non-white people have long endured actions prompted by those common white tendencies, it's most of them, and not white people themselves, who have long been the experts on the sorts of common white ways that get described at "stuff white people do."
I just heard on the news broadcast that another corp. has release tiger and AT&T is looking over his contract with them.
ReplyDeleteIf these skanks are to be believed,Tiger is the biggest Bama.
LOL...there are alot of men on this blog.
ann-new orleans
Ogunsiron,
ReplyDeleteI think macon d made your point better than you did.
macon,
sounds like "common white tendencies" is just another way of stereotyping people. It is a hate blog.
Jeff
St Louis
caucasian
Jeff,
ReplyDeleteI'm not surprised that you as a white person deny the existence of common white tendencies. One of them is the false belief that white people are mere individuals, completely free of common white tendencies -- the myth of "individualism," and all that stuff.
To accurately identify and explain common white tendencies is not to "stereotype." Stereotyping is a distanced assumption that members of a group share this or that quality. The term "common white tendencies" allows that many white people don't have and exhibit this or that said tendency; if you don't have and exhibit one that's described in any particular swpd post, then that post isn't about you (despite your being white).
I do agree, though, that in a certain way, swpd is a sort of hate site -- it expresses disdain, and "hatred" if you like, for what ongoing white hegemony causes white people to feel, to think, to do, and to not do. It's certainly not about hating oneself just for being white.
By the way, I know we are talking race and gender here (how juicy) so I guess I'll add my 2 cents on the "Tiger" story ... I overheard three guy at work (all White by the way, since I guess maybe that matters to some people) talking about how they now know that "Tiger is only human" saying it almost in a relieved way.
ReplyDelete"Human?" I remarked (me, being of the female gender). "I think it's a sickness. This was not a mere 'ooops' ..."
So I guess this is one example of the differing male/female viewpoints. Whether this reflects the viewpoints of White Male vs. Melanized Female, the reader will have to make his own decision.
Wow Anonymous, glad to see that "stuff white people do" struck a nerve! Interesting too that you said nothing of substance about the actual details of the posts and comment threads there.
ReplyDeleteAgain, it's NOT about white self-hatred. It's about whites freeing themselves, to whatever limited extent that's possible, from delusions wrought by being raised to think and act "white." It's also about better understanding the ongoing whitened underpinnings of Western society, and about treating non-white people better than white people have been trained to feel they should treat them. As for "sin" and preaching and purification and all that, I really doubt the word "sin" is used in a single post on that blog.
Why aren't men called whores?
ReplyDeleteMen are meant to spread our seeds because we constantly produce so many of them every day. Women evolved to put a lot more into ensuring the best possible man gets to fuse with her lonely, solitary egg.
A double standard exists because there are two standards for two genders....duhhh....It's not that big of a deal, really, and I suspect you have no problem with men paying for dates, despite the injustice of it all!
Now, back to other mystifying mysteries of liberalism addressed superficially on this blog, such as why Detroit, Haiti and Jamaica resemble Africa so much. Must be all the white racism.
Anon 7:43, If you take a second to stop playing 'superficially' with your wit-appendage, you might notice that this blog rarely assigns racism as a cause, but much more likely a result.
ReplyDeleteAnon, despite your annoying facetiousness there is something to be learned from looking at the places like Detroit vs. Lagos, and such. The adjusted technology achievement indices (see UN Development Programme) of the regions/inhabitants are not that far apart with certain key comparable results, such as the murder rate & literacy. The S-T drivers for these places are very different, but the L-T influence of disparate societal pace, yielding what I call disparate LEO's (locations of ethnic origin) is clearly at play - behind the superficial majority/minority racial gamesmanship.
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