Tiger Woods publicly apologized today. "I cheated," he said. "What I did was not acceptable, and I am the only person to blame." In case you have been hiding under a rock for the last two months, Tiger Woods is not talking about cheating during a golf match. He cheated on his wife with what seems like a gaggle of different women. But, honestly, who the hell cares?
The more and more the media talks about his infidelities, the more I don't get it. Why are celebrity sex scandals such a big deal? It seems like everyone in the limelight does it, yet God forbid, you get caught by the National Enquirer. Now, I'm not endorsing cheating on your significant other, but what is it our business if Tiger Woods likes to have sex with random, slutty waitresses? Tiger Woods is good at golf. He is famous for playing golf. Having sex with a cocktail waitress in New York City doesn't affect his golf game. So why should he have to apologize to us for cheating on his wife?! There should be no press conference involved for him apologizing to his wife! Flowers, groveling, jewelry, yes. Press conferences? No freakin way.
The thing that most people don't realize is that celebrities live different lives than the rest of us. They are constantly traveling, away from their families, and have fans and groupies constantly throwing themselves at them. When you haven't seen your girlfriend in three months, and your relationship is strained to begin with, then you combine that with a gorgeous girl who's willing to have hot, meaningless sex with you just because you are somebody, it's not very easy to resist. Or what about actors and actresses. How many relationships have ended because of a new on-set fling. Can you blame them? You are getting paid millions of dollars to fall in love with your super hot co-star for the next few months until shooting is over. Then for the next 3 months after that, you are going to go travel the world with this same co-star, to promote the film. It starts to become hard not to believe that you're really in love with this person.
Many will argue that these celebrities are role models for young people. This is a whole other issue, but isn't it the parents' job to teach these youngsters that celebrities are not exactly the role model they should be seeking. They may find a celebrity who they idolize, but it's up to the parents to teach their children right from wrong. Otherwise, we're looking at a half naked, drug addicted, anorexic future generation of hermaphrodites.
Tiger Woods has lost sponsors, ruined his reputation, and even crashed his car into a tree all because US Weekly found some sluts, who wanted some money and their five minutes of fame. And, the people who really care about this are the same people who almost got a President impeached for getting his dick sucked. Cheating on your wife is wrong, yes. But has anyone stopped to consider his wife in this situation? Do you know how embarrassed she probably is- with or without your public sympathy?
I'm standing my ground here. This is not a moral debate on whether its morally right or wrong for people to cheat. I'm simply saying that just because celebrities are paid to be constantly scrutinized by the public, doesn't mean that we should mind our business sometimes. And, sex scandals is one issue that's none of our damn business.
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