C'mon! Domestic violence in the Tiger Woods-Elin Nordegren spat?
Well, I guess you could technically call it domestic violence. And I do admire Tiger for not physically fighting back. Instead he took the flight approach to the fight or flight dilemma.
I just had never considered this as a prime example of what many of us see as domestic abuse. Of course, we have been cultured to believe that usually it's the woman who is the target in a domestic abuse crime.
Tonight I saw a headline on Yahoo that the December 5th Saturday Night Live skit about Tiger and his beautiful Swedish bride was in bad taste, considering the fact that the musical guest Rhianna was herself a victim of domestic abuse.
OK, if you want to get technical about it, I guess scratching up your two-timing "squeaky clean" hubby is domestic violence, and chasing him with a golf club could have done him great harm. Nevertheless, I want to whisper a small "Way to go, girl," when I read the story of the Tiger Woods poly-gram and his "woman scorned" wife.
I immediately thought of Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Edwards "standing by their men," along with Jenny Sandford and other politicians' wives who continued to be the demure little women after their husbands carried on with "the other women."
None of them really seemed that mad! Were they really human? Had they no pride?
Now I see a sweet little woman not from these here parts stand up to her man and let him know that she wasn't going to be cheated on here in the U.S. or anywhere else for that matter. She lost her temper. She scratched his face (Hey, women's fingernails have always been our most potent weapon!), and then chased him with his expensive golf club, running him out of the house at 2:25 AM and darn right embarrassing the poor guy. In my politically incorrect opinion, more power to you, Elin!
For far too long we wives have looked the other way when husbands cheated. We have forgiven, forgiven and forgiven, and then looked inward to see what we could have done to cause him to stray. Did we ask him to get up with a crying child once too often, or to mow the yard once a month, or did we nag him too much?
Now we see a strong woman who stands her ground. This sexy blonde Nordic Woman of the Bear Clan knows where her claims are, is willing to mess up a good night's sleep, damage a pretty good Cadillac and cause a ruckus in her refined neighborhood because her man cheated on her and has, it seems, continued to do so with a number of women a good number of times.
Maybe she is a reborn Virginia Wolfe, I don't know.
I just apologize to all people, men and women, who have been on the receiving side of domestic violence. As adults we should never hit, scratch, cut or maim any person, especially when we have young children in the home. This was not acceptable for an adult to react in such a manner, even if she is a "scorned wife" of Tiger Woods.
Nevertheless, I laughed when I watched the skit on SNL last night. It didn't even register with me while I watched it that I was laughing at domestic violence. Shame on me!
but also shame on Tiger!