Monday, December 07, 2009
Putting Tiger in a Zoo...
Here's my take on Tiger Woods and the current zoo that has been created around his female relationships:
He spent an inordinate amount of time on the golf course or range as a young boy and young man, driven by his Dad's desire for him to be the best golfer in the world.
He was painfully shy with girls. He even needed a friend in 2002 to ask his wife for his first date, which she promptly refused!
My hit is that she may have been one of the first women that he dated and made love to. As his confidence in his prowess improved, so did his need to satisfy the raging hormones that were dripping out of his ears, which were a result of his not having had sexual exposure before. And no doubt, women were throwing themselves at him all the while. So how can we blame him from saying yes to these attractive women?
It is his public status - and the myths that we have created around him - that have fueled the stories coming out about him. And really...why should we care about his private life, except that we are acting like voyeurs?!
In a better world, we will stop locking up people in marriages that require/force monogamy on people, regardless of the circumstances. Let monogamy be a choice that comes out of awareness, not a decision forced upon us by societal norms and religions. In that better world, we will simply drop the whole ownership idea, which is just stupid, and abandon the institution of marriage. After all, who wants to live in an institution? Then we can stop making sex into something serious instead of the joy and fun that it really is!
©2009 subhan schenker
He spent an inordinate amount of time on the golf course or range as a young boy and young man, driven by his Dad's desire for him to be the best golfer in the world.
He was painfully shy with girls. He even needed a friend in 2002 to ask his wife for his first date, which she promptly refused!
My hit is that she may have been one of the first women that he dated and made love to. As his confidence in his prowess improved, so did his need to satisfy the raging hormones that were dripping out of his ears, which were a result of his not having had sexual exposure before. And no doubt, women were throwing themselves at him all the while. So how can we blame him from saying yes to these attractive women?
It is his public status - and the myths that we have created around him - that have fueled the stories coming out about him. And really...why should we care about his private life, except that we are acting like voyeurs?!
In a better world, we will stop locking up people in marriages that require/force monogamy on people, regardless of the circumstances. Let monogamy be a choice that comes out of awareness, not a decision forced upon us by societal norms and religions. In that better world, we will simply drop the whole ownership idea, which is just stupid, and abandon the institution of marriage. After all, who wants to live in an institution? Then we can stop making sex into something serious instead of the joy and fun that it really is!
©2009 subhan schenker
# posted by Subhan @ 12:19 PM 
