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Tiger Woods: Who Cares?

Asked by poofandmook (17320points) December 2nd, 2009

I use iGoogle, and I have a widget that displays a few headlines. All day… ALL DAY… they have all been about Tiger Woods.

What, for crying out loud, is so amazing about celebrities that their stupid affairs should dwarf NY voting against gay marriage, and South Africa treating babies with HIV, and even the wrecking ball that smashed a car in NYC?

[head explodes]

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Jude's avatar

Who cares? I don’t.

gemiwing's avatar

I don’t get it either. It’s none of my business if he did cheat, wreck the car on purpose or snorted grape jello out of his butt. I just don’t care. Call me if he wins a major tournament again- otherwise, enough already.

I think it’s about what They think We want even though We are clearly not wanting what They think We do.

mowens's avatar

Tiger cares.

dpworkin's avatar

It seems his wife cares enough to have taken after him with a baseball bat. That indicates some serious depth of caring.

proXXi's avatar

I DO! It’s me he could have driven into!

So much for his long game….

poofandmook's avatar

@pdworkin: Well, yes. But I’m sure his wife didn’t need to read the news to find all this out.

JLeslie's avatar

Here is my take: I don’t care if his wife puts billborads all over the US and world saying her husband Tiger Woods has been screwing Sally Smith, but I don’t want the media telling me. It should be up to her if it becomes public and no one else.

Snarp's avatar

Me neither.

whatthefluther's avatar

Surprised? No.
Care? Not in the least.
See ya….Gary/wtf

Cupcake's avatar

Word up WTF. I agree completely.

Snarp's avatar

I care so little that I’m going to stop following this question now that I’ve answered it.

MissAnthrope's avatar

Not me. I only care when someone purporting to be a pillar of integrity and moral wholesomeness does something naughty like this. Then I get to smirk.

Sabotage82's avatar

Blame the fuck nuts that own the media. If they can make millison telling you about it they will. Oh, also it dwarf gay marriage and HIV treatment because they dont give a shit about anybody but themselves and their pocket book. Have a nice day!!!!!!

erichw1504's avatar

What’s a tiger woods?

flameboi's avatar

leave the guy alone… its ridiculous…. i don’t care

rooeytoo's avatar

I think the media overdoes it, no doubt. I am sick of hearing about it.

I am a little sad though, Tiger had a pretty squeaky clean image. A guy who hit the big time and didn’t turn into a egomaniacal narcissist. All of this diminishes that. Roger Federer is now the only one left.

kevbo's avatar

@poofandmook (et al), might I suggest you change your media sources?

Although, I do agree with you.

Also, should we not take a hint and just give up on monogamy at this point?

JLeslie's avatar

Now, I would make some exceptions. For instance, when Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s husband gets caught cheating I hope the media talks about it for weeks.

skfinkel's avatar

I don’t care. And I hate how we invade peoples’ privacy in this country. Let them be.

poofandmook's avatar

@JLeslie: YES!! I can’t stand her! I would revel in that information for weeks… lol

JLeslie's avatar

@poofandmook not because I disagree with her politucs, but because she is so awful on this particular subject, she is so smug and so sure her husband would never cheat, never look at porn, never, never, never.

kruger_d's avatar

Not me. And I’m tired of a “reporter”‘s suppositions passing for news.

autumn43's avatar

Well, ‘Tiger’s Transgressions’ sounds like it could be a new dance song!

Too bad Tiger drove out of his driveway and into a tree.
Was it because of her and not the wifey?
Is he not the tiger after all?
He wishes we didn’t hear that call.
Well, he’s not perfect, and let everyone see.

J0E's avatar

Who cares? The media does, and if they care about it then they want everyone else to care about it.

hiphiphopflipflapflop's avatar

Perfect fodder to shovel into the mass media maw. They need something (anything!) other than news that could upset corporate applecarts by making the proles angry. And it’s becoming more of a stretch to do that every day. That’s why occasions like Tiger’s travails and Michael Jackson’s and Anna Nicole Smith’s deaths have newsies resembling pigs rushing and crowding the trough.

absalom's avatar

I didn’t even know about this until I read the question.

So even though I isolate myself from the media it still reaches me through Fluther.

This question is an extension of the media it’s criticizing. We are talking about a Tiger Woods affair right now because the media is talking about a Tiger Woods affair right now.

Whatever.

loser's avatar

Nope. Don’t care in the least.

ccrow's avatar

I don’t care, & don’t want to keep hearing about it.

avvooooooo's avatar

The only reason its such a big deal is because he won’t say what happened. If he did, the speculation would stop and the story would die and people would stop harassing him. I don’t think he’s realized that this common sense step is all that’s needed to end the whole thing, but I hope he figures it out quickly.

avvooooooo's avatar

@pdworkin I thought it was a golf club she was using to bust out the back window. I’m sure they have enough lying about the place. The question is when she busted that window… when he was driving away or after he wrecked.

jackm's avatar

Its what Americans want to see, so thats what news agencies show to us.

Its just life.

Blondesjon's avatar

What, for crying out loud, is so amazing about celebrities that their stupid affairs should dwarf NY voting against gay marriage, and South Africa treating babies with HIV, and even the wrecking ball that smashed a car in NYC?

What is so amazing about this story, (and others like it), is it’s ability to draw the majority of the public’s attention away from the subject matter your just described above. I really believe that there is a specific government agency responsible for what big “story” is going to break next when it’s time for us raise taxes or bomb some brown people.

It is also something we don’t have to try and fix or make better. It allows to sit back and make snap judgments about folks we don’t really even know. Very human.

To answer your question, I care a lot. Because a story like this taking up all of the media’a attention means we are getting fucked somewhere behind the scenes.

filmfann's avatar

I liked Keith Oberman’s line last night.
He said, in golf terms, that Tiger’s wife is playing a bad lie.

toomuchcoffee911's avatar

I thought the wrecking ball thing was a hoax

Skippy's avatar

Ditto what @Blondesjon said!

Ivan's avatar

I care

icehky06's avatar

I never read anything about whats going on in life..its never anything good…why bother?

tinyfaery's avatar

Hey. He might be a victim of domestic abuse. I don’t care that he cheated.

ItalianPrincess1217's avatar

Tiger Woods: Who cares? Well, you obviously do. It clearly bothers you that this story is all over the news. And the media could give two shits whether you care because you genuinely care or if you care because it pisses you off that it’s being blown out of proportion. As long as they get a reaction out of people, they know they did their job.

DominicX's avatar

Just thought I’d tell you that you’re giving this story attention by posting this question. People act like it’s the celebrity’s fault entirely that they’re famous, but it’s not really. It’s up the rest of the people to give them attention and this question does just that.

poofandmook's avatar

@DominicX: I realize this. I’m not blaming him for being famous. I’m also not saying that nobody should ever speak about it… my point, which I thought I had made clear, is wondering why mainstream, credible NEWS sources are so focused on sensationalism celebrity fodder.

wearartao's avatar

The media is helping us sink to new levels. We should be concerned with our own personal relationships. I could care less about Tiger’s.

JLeslie's avatar

Just to talk about Elisabeth Hasslebeck again, did you see The View today? She could not get that Joy was pointing out that Tiger has not been a hypocrit like some of these politicians on the subject of sex scandal. Is Elisabeth hoping we won’t see her as a hypocrit if it ever happens to her? She can be such a dingbat.

jerv's avatar

My two cents;

Many Americans care more about Tiger’s infidelity than about anything going on in Washington and are more likely to vote for American Idol than for US President.

Sad state of affairs, but many Americans are apathetic, ill-informed (they don’t care to know so they don’t know), and in some cases proudly ignorant.

Berserker's avatar

Seriously. I’m sick of hearing about him too. So he’s a slut, aside from him being famous, what’s his cheating so different than other people’s cheating? It’s total ass.

filmfann's avatar

@Symbeline His cheating is different from mine, because he has had a dozen affairs, and paid madam’s for more, and I haven’t.

Berserker's avatar

@filmfann However you look at it though, it’s still drama that really isn’t anybody’s business but his and his lawyer. Lulz.

tinyfaery's avatar

Personally, I’ve never like Tiger so much. Before he was so vanilla—boring. What’s the point of being married if you obviously aren’t into it? He’s a victim of expectations. Too bad women and children have to suffer.

JLeslie's avatar

Men sometimes get married because they want a wife and children. They just also want to keeping screwing around. Lots of men live this lifestyle. I think very few men stay single even when they want to still shtup every pretty girl they meet. Sickening I know. I dated a guy and I knew all of his brothers wives and girlfriends, we all did. He of course wound up cheating on me. It was a way of life for them. I do not mean that most men live this lifestyle, only that it is rare to find a man who does not wind up getting married I think, even if he knows he won’t be loyal.

denidowi's avatar

Exactly!!
We each have esnuff of our on probs to deal with without worrying about the animals in the woodsLOL!
More importantly, the Lord Returns in the next 20+ Years!!
Are we ready for that????

rooeytoo's avatar

i’m ready

denidowi's avatar

Well I can see YOU are, rooeytoo, but how come we’re always talkin’ ‘bout animals, and not HimansLOL!!!???

proXXi's avatar

Gatorade, Gillette, Accenture.

denidowi's avatar

All your Gatorades, Gillettes, etc will all be blown up or set to Fire when the Lord comes in all His Power, Might and Dominion in 20+ years from now, proXXi, whereas rooeytoo, the dog, is likely to be raised to meet Him in the air.
Rooey was made by God – likewise, “Tiger”, but Gillette – I’m sorry… but only a corruptible invention of manLOL!!!

rooeytoo's avatar

holy cow, how did I get onto your side of the fence, really I am still perched on top and I love gatorade

denidowi's avatar

Ah, rooeytoo, but you see, I started a Dog Club when I was only 13 years oldLOL!
So the Lord made a pact with me about saving the animals ;)

Now as for saving a ‘tiger in the forest’, which is where we started… well I can only say that is in the hands of the ‘Hol-i-One’!!!! HeHe

proXXi's avatar

Trollingorcompletelyinsane.

denidowi's avatar

Ahh, proXXi, I see u resort to the infantile, old-fashioned fault-finding and name-calling tactic: Huh??!

proXXi's avatar

Im just being as serious as you babe ; )

denidowi's avatar

Oh, I see… and NOW you can also read minds, read hearts and perceive the thrust and experience of others’ lives as well.
You know… that’s pretty good, proLOL!!

Er… wot wos it that you were “pro” of??? ;)

denidowi's avatar

So, a pro Proxy: Huh???
We could use You in our Church; most of our work is done ‘in proxy’LOL! ... but I’m afraid, we ALL do it unpaidLOL!

But, Perhaps you are a ‘spiritual fellow’?? ;)

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