Posted on 12/08/2009 10:45:52 AM PST by GOPGuide
I expected this argument to be made, but not in the pages of the Washington Post; I assumed it would come as a blog post. Eugene Robinson takes leave of his senses in his attempt to spin Tiger Woods as either a racist or a self-hating minority — or a little of both — by complaining that Tiger’s mistresses have too much in common. Guess what that might be?
"Here’s my real question, though: What’s with the whole Barbie thing?
No offense to anyone who actually looks like Barbie, but it really is striking how much the women who’ve been linked to Woods resemble one another. I’m talking about the long hair, the specific body type, even the facial features. Mattel could sue for trademark infringement.
This may be the most interesting aspect of the whole Tiger Woods story — and one of the most disappointing. He seems to have been bent on proving to himself that he could have any woman he wanted. But from the evidence, his aim wasn’t variety but some kind of validation.
I’m making a big assumption here that the attraction for Woods was mostly physical, but there’s no evidence thus far that he had a lot of time for deep conversation. If adultery is really about the power and satisfaction of conquest, Woods’s self-esteem was apparently only boosted by bedding the kind of woman he thought other men lusted after — the “Playmate of the Month” type that Hugh Hefner turned into the American gold standard.
But the world is full of beautiful women of all colors, shapes and sizes — some with short hair or almond eyes, some with broad noses, some with yellow or brown skin. Woods appears to have bought into an “official” standard of beauty that is so conventional as to be almost oppressive.
His taste in mistresses leaves the impression of a man who is, deep down, both insecure and image-conscious — a control freak even when he’s committing “transgressions.”
Of all the issues in play with this story, and even with many that probably shouldn’t be in play, this is easily the most ridiculous. I haven’t seen much of the mistresses, and I hope to see even less as this story finally falls out of the media spotlight, but it seems to me that Tiger shockingly cheated with attractive women. And while his assignations may have required a certain amount of logistical planning to keep them from coming to his wife’s attention, it seems very, very unlikely that Tiger planned his infidelities in such a way as to keep diversity as his primary motive.
For that matter, let’s think about what Robinson considers “oppressive.” He’s angry to the point of dedicating a column to the issue that Tiger Woods didn’t exploit women of other colors, shapes, and sizes for sexual satisfaction. Was his extramarital attention to these women some kind of liberating experience for them, to the point where Robinson argues that Woods should have distributed the wealth a little more?
And can anyone who has had as many flings as Tiger apparently has, with as much indiscretion as has been exposed, possibly be considered a “control freak”? Is that why he’s managed to indict himself so thoroughly by giving his cell number out to his paramours while his wife has access to the phone?
Besides, no one knows whether we’ve seen the complete set of Tiger’s paramours. There may be more crawling out of the woodwork in the next few days and weeks. If one of them is a woman of color, or a little on the chunky side, will Robinson write another column hailing Tiger’s work in spreading the, er, wealth?
Woods has done plenty of wrong to his wife and his family, and to a much lesser extent his fans. Insensitivity to Eugene Robinson’s sense of exploitation diversity isn’t one of them. (via The Corner)
It’s the “if you won’t sleep with me you must be a racist” card, only in reverse.
“...PROJECT THEIR RACISM”
Welcome to the wild, wonderful, zany world of Liberalism...where only a literal Klu Klux Klan member (Sen Robert Byrd) could claim membership in the party claiming to provide the most legitimate black representation...and even manage to incorporate the MSM into their fraud.
Basically a “trial run” for the Globull Warming fraud they are attempting to foist upon the rest of a gullible world.
Up is down, red is blue..to these ministers of delusion, illusion and ledger domain.
You alivist!! Just because someone's dead doesn't mean.... Oh, never mind.
Robinson is so pathetic. He should be embarrassed to admit he writes this stuff.
Real diversity means hitting plenty of homely girls. I mean, aren’t they supposed to be very uh, enthusiastic because they aren’t getting enough. If it was about sex Tiger would have gone after nothing but ordinary or unattractive women. So the character flaw is not in his behavior, but in the choices of these girl’s looks?
What a disgusting society we have become. Woods could boink a hundred cookie cutter blonds and he’d not sink to the level of Eugene Robinson as a jerk. Robinson didn’t (as I recall) have any problem with BC exploiting 21 year old Monica. Or physically assaulting any number of other women. Must have been a better cross section of femininity.
Japanese are prettier than Chineses, but if you take oriental as a whole, even including HK, they are second on average to me.
“Salmon...the OTHER pink meat!”
Smells like fish, though...
I wonder how many were paid off BEFORE all this stuff came out?
Nope, and anyway I was referring to the English/Chinese girls.
You may feel that way, but I fully disagree. On average Japanese Women are far more attractive than Chinese. Orientals as a whole on average to me are second only to caucasians, but they are second.
One disappointment after another. Tiger had it all goign for him and he messes it up after these cheap sides with these women. I could throw up in disgust.
...okay, that’s racist...
I can tell you a slightly out of touch, who uses the terms Oriental or Negro these day? Indians are considered Asian as are “orientals”, you must have been born in 1945.
huh?
Who cares that the sluts were white? Could it possibly be that Tiger couldn’t get another race to willingly be used as a mistress? These women are disgusting embarrassments that should be hanging their heads in shame instead of proudly claiming to be sluts.
No, I’m not, I am using the terms to point out racial differences.. If you can’t see that you are not only born after 1945, but likely had a rather poor education.
Asian is a term that can cover anyone from the Asian continent, That covers everthing from Arabs, Persians, Orientals, Mongols, and Indians, oh and believe it or not, there are caucasians breeding on that vast continent as well as well as a plethora of other lesser races spread accorss the isles of the Indian Ocean. If you think those are all one “race” in terms of their physical characteristics you are either incredibly naive, blind, poorly educated, or some combination of all three.
We are talking about races and their physical characteristics. Negro while perhaps not taught at whatever dumbed down institution of learning you went to because of fear of not being politically correct, is the correct racial name. African is not appropriate, as again, that’s a location of birth not a RACE. The African continent contains plethora of races.
Whites are not “europeans” they are caucasians. Just as Indians, Orientals and Arabs are not “Asians” when discussing their RACE. They are completely different in terms of their physical racial characteristics, which is what this discussion is about. Its not a discussion about geography.
I have a fine college education, thank you very much. And I’m so glad that with your poor education you were able to clarify that you actually know your geography. The irony is, just a few posts before, you were posting your racist bull$hit about “Negros” being the last of your preference. Puleeze. When you develop some character, then you can school me.
There was nothing “Racist” about my post, I stated my opinion of what I find attractive and nothing more. It is not racist to point out personal subjective physical preferences, in fact in that same post I pointed out quite well that there are examples of women of all races that I find incredibly attractive.
You have chosen to react by playing a race card of being offended by my comments when none was given. That’s fine, you can play your life that way, continue to show that your “fine college education” lacked some very basic teaching... such as the difference between an adjective that tells you where someone was geographically born, and the proper term for someones physical race.
As to character, look into the mirror on that one. Knee jerking over the proper racial terminology is not an act of character. Black is not a race, and white is not a race, its a color.
Excuse me, if you can make assumptions that I received a poor education and talk about the schools that I attended, all without knowing me (and possibly gleaning from my user-name that I am a black woman), then that is only evidence of your bigotry. That was a knee jerk reaction, if I have ever seen one. All because I pointed out the antiquated terms that you used to focus on your bigotry. You sound like a man that lives in his mother’s basement and has no real contact with real women at all..... black, white or green. Good luck to you, Sir. Hope you find that special woman that can put up with all the ours you spend on World of Warcraft and such...
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