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Title: Why we can't let Tiger Woods off the hook for alleged affairs with a 'sex addiction' defense
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URL Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions ... ow_a_tiger_by_his_stripes.html
Published: Dec 9, 2009
Author: S. E. Cupp
Post Date: 2009-12-09 16:01:46 by beyond the sea
Keywords: Woods, Tiger, Perv, Sleazebag
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Comments: 185
In Britain's News of the World - whose editors and readers have such an insatiable appetite for sex scandals that the tabloid is fondly called "Screws of the World" - an addictions manager at North London's Priory Clinic says declaratively of a beleaguered Tiger Woods, "I see him as ill, not bad." Here it comes. Amid all the sordid details of Tiger's numerous "transgressions," we should now prepare ourselves for a forthcoming announcement by a very somber-looking Woods spokesman, or perhaps even by the golfer himself, that Tiger is, in fact, a sex addict. We can stop questioning his character, for this - we're being told - is a medical issue. No less an authority than Drew Pinsky, the host of VH1's reality show "Sex Rehab," told "Entertainment Tonight" that "it's safe to say that sex addiction might be part of his problem." Pinsky and the rest of the world are trying to help us understand what otherwise seems inconceivable: how such a rich, powerful and focused man ("and with such a beautiful wife!" some add, suggesting that ugly wives require no explanation) could risk his reputation, his fortune and his family to play the field with floozies. We can't let them get away with it. If the psychologizers win, they will allow brain chemistry, instead of free will, to co-opt habitual infidelity, thus completely and utterly absolving Woods of everything. Including driving barefoot, no doubt. And thereby absolving the rest of us of our sins. Yes, I said it: sins. The facts here are pretty simple. Woods made repeated and calculated decisions to deceive and hurt his family. For that he should get no sympathy. Pawning off bad behavior on some nebulous psychosis makes public apologies and professed remorse merely perfunctory, not sincere. In fact, that sex addiction even has a name (and its own television show) speaks volumes about our culture - and our collective psyche. The affliction may be real, but it also keeps us from acknowledging the immorality of our actions. After all, we don't call serial killers "murder addicts." Yet, anyway. Buying into the notion gives us license to embrace a psychology gap that keeps us divorced from our own behavior. Discussing a clinical condition is easier than actual soul-searching. Who needs confession when you can just be absolved through therapy and rehab? Over the past decade or two, psychologizing of this sort has become big business, crowding out so many basic moral judgments. The intelligentsia has so successfully marginalized morality to the far corners of its collective attics (where it also keeps religion) that the manic and predictable rush to medically explain immoral behavior has built a permanent, Bill Clinton-style wall separating the things we do in our private lives from who we really are. We saw a similar justification after the Fort Hood massacre, when scores of mental health experts decided from afar that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan wasn't a hardened terrorist - he was just really, really stressed out from absorbing everyone else's stories of posttraumatic stress. The Tiger drama is of course worlds apart, in every imaginable way. But the aftermath shares the same frantic search for a simple explanation that does an end run around free will. And as for Tiger's mental health, sex addiction may just be the tip of the iceberg. In Psychology Today, Stanton Peele writes (with a whiff of that inimitable shrink's humor) that Tiger's success and stamina on the golf course may have predicted his behavior in the bedroom: "Rather than being a sex addict, the same single-mindedness, skill set and gift for robotic calculation that make Tiger Woods the world's greatest golfer make him an avatar of the bedroom." Amazing: For both his strengths and weaknesses, psychology manages to surgically remove Tiger, a man whose power and wealth have bought him more free will than most of us will ever have, from his own life. It's hardly a comforting thought. But Peele leaves us with an intriguing question. If we can blame Tiger's troubles on his addictive behavior, why don't we blame his successes on a personality disorder, too? This man is a golf addict, to be sure - he's downright obsessed. But for that he earns our praise and respect. And tons of money. Forgive me for sounding old-fashioned. But the best prescription for a long, healthy life isn't pricey rehab, therapy and psychological reprogramming. It's a clear conscience. secupp@redsecupp.com
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#1. To: All (#0)
S.E. Cupp ........ totally cool and totally correct.
It is only the law that keeps most men from being sex addicted. Woods and others circumvent the law by buying what a poor man could not have. (or want)
Who Tiger Woods bangs is between him and his wife. It's nobody else's bidness.
If she isn't married yet, some man somewhere is not doing his job.
Woods and others circumvent the law by buying what a poor man could not have. (or want) It sure is a cop out for him to claim sex addiction. Most men would fall into that category if all of their wants materialized.
Indeed. Throw in a measure of morality and most men walk the line. Woods had a history of such prior to marriage, his wife was not too bright if she figured he would give all of that up. A man with a billion dollars most often will buy everything he ever wanted, including women.
I figured it all out: because Tiger Woods isn't down for the DEMOCRATIC agenda: "Like all black athletes with "crossover" appeal, whispers echoed on about "tradeoffs" and "giving back," and about it being time Tiger developed a "social conscience." A handful of sports pundits, including USA Today's Jon Saraceno and one Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel columnist, began the drumbeat: It's time Tiger use his face and his personality to hock progressive causes. "Progressive" of course means liberal. And I'd guess that all the longing for Tiger's political activism has since dried up because the evidence increasingly points to the fact that Tiger just might be - hold your breath - a Republican." _________________________________________________________________________ Women can be dazzled by a lot less than a billion dollars.
Song and dance wont cut it any more. They want to see the green.
I meant they could be dazzled by a lot less money.
Yes. I assume you know what the ..quick release...on a parachute harness is??? Punch it and the harness, chute and all attached fall off, you are ready for action. All of the women squired by Woods have something similar. They see green, their eyes light up, they hit the quick release on their underwear and the action begins.
Whatever he may be, Tiger is no foot-tapper.
Damn, Cyni. Harsh on the bimbos there. I don't think that his dates waste their time with unmentionables. Why put it on if you're just going to have to take it off?
Sir Lod... You should not be reading such, you might become contaminated. Mind you, I only know this because of what the older boys told me.
Yeah, my wife's always wanting to sweep the floors and wash clothes & stuff. I tell her, "Why bother? It's just going to get dirty again." Women are so impractical.
I've always rather enjoyed my forays into adultery, but others' mileage may vary. It's perhaps a good thing I'm not wealthy like Tiger Woods. I'd make him look like a monk.
Women are so impractical. My gripe is making the bed every day, just to have to unmake it each evening. How insane is that?
I wonder what size cupp?
Obama's health care plan shall be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it, signed by a president who smokes and has no birth certificate, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is overweight and financed by a country that is nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong? - buckeroo Olde grouch. I make mine every morning, first thing I do. I sleep on one side, the cat on the other.
Let's just not go there any further. The older guys were bad influences on us. Memo to Cyni and CyniCat - CyniCat won't say a word should you leave the bed unmade. Trust me, this is true. ;-)
men too
Nonsense. Utter nonsense.
:-o You weren't in the USMC, were you? ;-)
_________________________________________________________________________ Men are cheap and our heads are easily turned. But, you knew that, didn't you?? :P
_________________________________________________________________________ tell the truth, sista' and Amen.
No. A bleeding ulcer over the entire matter made me 4-F. Thank God.
men too Please stop giving me straight lines like that. It makes it hard to remember that I'm supposed to be a gentleman. ;-)
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
What???? I had a back condition, yellow stripe, but they said they could fix that. Then I told them I did not like being away from home at nite. They said they would give me a new home. Every excuse I came up with, they denied.
I say you either watch Tiger play golf or you don't. It is unfortunate people pay attention to these professional gamers when they are not playing their game. Leave the dude alone. He messed up, but it is his, his wife's and his lovers' problems, not ours.
God is always good!
Damn, I had such hopes.
"The only thing better than a Federal Reserve audit would be a Federal Reserve autopsy." ~ unknown
It was hard to do but I have a stiff resolve.
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
I had a back condition, yellow stripe, but they said they could fix that. Then I told them I did not like being away from home at nite. They said they would give me a new home. Every excuse I came up with, they denied. Cyni - I was bleeding from top, to bottom, on this one. It was ugly.
well, i think you'd find more things, than not, where men and women have the same weaknesses and temptations. ;)
i got that ;P
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France
S.E. Cupp ........ totally cool and totally correct. Poor girl, no wonder she can't find a date. ;)
God is always good!
... Amazing: For both his strengths and weaknesses, psychology manages to surgically remove Tiger, a man whose power and wealth have bought him more free will than most of us will ever have, from his own life Really, it is none of "our" business. Woods cheated on his spouse, as lots of males do. That is his personal business. He does not cheat on the golf course. Playing golf is what the public pays to see him do and how he earns his living. Woods never took any money from people by pretending to follow any particular code of conduct. Multi billion dollar corporations threw money at him to pitch their products because they thought he was popular. Now they are not throwing money at him because they think he is not popular. He is still one of the best golfers in the world, presuming distractions in his personal life don't make him lose his proficiency. For anybody who bought something because they had a certain image of the man, that is their problem, not his. The only thing they really knew about him was he's an excellent golfer. Their mistake to think good sportsman = person meeting their expecations in non-sports matters.
If she's going to make her living sermonizing about other people's personal behavior behind closed doors, I'd pass.
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#2. To: beyond the sea (#0)
#3. To: beyond the sea (#0)
#4. To: beyond the sea (#1)
#5. To: Cynicom (#2)
It is only the law that keeps most men from being sex addicted.
#6. To: echo5sierra (#5)
Most men would fall into that category if all of their wants materialized.
#7. To: beyond the sea, All (#0)
Why we can't let Tiger Woods off the hook for alleged affairs with a 'sex addiction' defense
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#8. To: Cynicom (#6)
A man with a billion dollars most often will buy everything he ever wanted, including women.
#9. To: echo5sierra (#8)
Women can be dazzled by a lot less than a billion dollars.
#10. To: Cynicom (#9)
Song and dance wont cut it any more. They want to see the green.
#11. To: echo5sierra (#10)
I meant they could be dazzled by a lot less money.
#12. To: X-15. Tiger Watchers, all (#7)
Tiger just might be - hold your breath - a Republican.
#13. To: Cynicom (#11)
(Edited)
All of the women squired by Woods have something similar. They see green, their eyes light up, they hit the quick release on their underwear and the action begins.
#14. To: Lod (#13)
Why put it on if you're just going to have to take it off?
#15. To: Lod (#13)
Why put it on if you're just going to have to take it off?
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#16. To: beyond the sea (#0)
#17. To: Esso. men here (#15)
Yeah, my wife's always wanting to sweep the floors and wash clothes & stuff. I tell her, "Why bother? It's just going to get dirty again."
#18. To: beyond the sea (#1)
Let me get this straight.
#19. To: Lod (#17)
My gripe is making the bed every day, just to have to unmake it each evening.
#20. To: Cynicom. all (#14)
Mind you, I only know this because of what the older boys told me.
Damn Thank them.
#21. To: Cynicom (#19)
I make mine every morning, first thing I do. I sleep on one side, the cat on the other.
#22. To: echo5sierra (#8)
Women can be dazzled by a lot less than a billion dollars.
#23. To: christine (#22)
men too
#24. To: All (#21)
A beautiful tribute -
#25. To: Lod (#17)
My gripe is making the bed every day, just to have to unmake it each evening.
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#26. To: christine (#22)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?”
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#27. To: christine (#22)
men too
#28. To: X-15 (#25)
#29. To: christine (#22)
Women can be dazzled by a lot less than a billion dollars.
#30. To: Lod (#28)
A bleeding ulcer over the entire matter made me 4-F.
#31. To: beyond the sea (#0)
#32. To: Original_Intent, christine (#29)
It makes it hard to remember that I'm supposed to be a gentleman. ;-)
#33. To: farmfriend (#32)
(Edited)
#34. To: Cynicom (#30)
What????
#35. To: X-15 (#26)
#36. To: Original_Intent, farmfriend (#33)
#37. To: christine, farmfriend (#36)
#38. To: beyond the sea (#1)
Author: S.E. Cupp
#39. To: beyond the sea (#0)
We can't let Tiger Woods off the hook for alleged affairs with a 'sex addiction...
#40. To: RickyJ (#38)
Poor girl, no wonder she can't find a date. ;)
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