Here’s a piece on celebrity madness. Enjoy.
Tiger Woods is probably as famous in Norway as well as in the rest of the world. We know him best as the face of Gillette and other commercials, but when he cheated on the Swedish beauty Elin Nordegren, his wife, we also got to know that he was playing golf. Now, golf is a sport? I’ve always thought it was a Volkswagen.
Mr. Woods is not the first person to cheat on his wife. Former President Bill Clinton cheated on Hillary with this statement (I’m sure you all know it by heart): “I did not have sex with that woman!” CNN made a compilation of regretful sinners that committed adultery. There was a NBA star, a televangelist (!) and a couple of other politicians (especially this Spitzer fellow from New York).
It seems to me that there exists a celebrity plague called FADultery. That cheating on each other is the way of celebrity life. And that it is highly contagious. It started with JFK and Marilyn Monroe and the birthday song and continued through the next decades with several other examples I don’t even bother to mention. When will the fadultery end?
Adultery is not only a celebrity fad, because every time a male pig chauvinist lays his eyes on a girl that he desires it obviously has to lead to sex. Now, I know some girls are the same way (concerning the Sex and the Cigar column last week, with the nymphomaniac), but this issue is closely linked to men. We’re weak. We’re so weak that we can’t do anything but disrespect our loved ones.
Who can blame us? We’re not made for commitment. We’re primal bastards with two brains, and we use the second one (and the smallest) more often than the other. If you girls can’t deal with that, leave us alone to hunt women like hungry wolfs on Rhody Joe’s or Charlie O’s (I’ll be the Scandinavian wolf with the accent, if you were to meet me).
Now, who wants to moralize? And what makes Tiger Woods more interesting than Sam Simpson, the regular and average American man? Leave people be to their desires. And keep in mind some words from Freddie Mercury, the vocalist in Queen; “Too much love will kill you if don’t make up your mind!”
Photo courtesy of: Cassandra Haugen
