The revelation of golf superstar Tiger Woods' many dalliances with sleazy women has come as a shock to many. Not to me. With fame and fortune come opportunities for illicit pleasures aplenty. In fact, even without fame and fortune, we live in an age of utter libertine subjugation to our base impulses. Money and prestige only make seeking gratification easier, which is why we have entire useless publications devoted to examining the prurient escapades of the celebrity set. I am not entirely sure why anyone is surprised about all of this.
I will say this: Eugene Robinson, of the worthless Washington Post, is a moron. He has taken the Tiger debacle in a whole new, completely unhelpful direction by insinuating that there is some kind of self-targeted racism at play in Tiger's choice of mistresses. The black golf pro's choice of busty, Playboy-style white women reflects a lack of diversity, says Robinson. Shame on Tiger for not screwing a few black, Latino, or Asian women while he was at it. If you're going to cheat, cheat in a more politically-correct fashion.
Apparently, should any of you readers ever decide to become serial adulterers, I recommend that at least one of your illicit partners be a minority. That way, hurt feelings can be avoided (except for your wife's hurt feelings, but those are aside the point; once the damage is done, liberal ire over non-diverse sexual attraction ought be your primary concern).
How nauseating. Yet, again, how unsurpising. Last week as I perused the Boston Herald, all the full-page images of Tiger, a black man, juxtaposed with his posse of caucasian sluts, stood out like sore thumbs. For race baiters, the contrasting skin colors of the parties involved are just too good to be true. Someone was inevitably going to seize on it.
Robinson's conspiracy theory about Tiger's presumed disinterest in minority women hasn't garnered much traction. This is probably because even other whiny, oversensitive editors and journalists know that these kinds of comments are infuriatingly off-base. Only a desperate person would drag the race issue into a fairly mundane sex scandal situation that is not at all germane to it. That Robinson suggests Tiger's exclusively white taste is a result of insecurity might be even more offensive. Is "security" defined as "having sexual preferences that cut across a multitude of ethnicities"?
People who try to stir up bad feeling needlessly are one of the primary reasons why the public affairs discourse in our country is so charged with artificial "controversy".
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