so...Tiger Woods

Not that any of *you* care, but it's been all over the internet news & all over the radio. Probably all over the TV news & newspapers, too, but I don't watch TV or read the paper.

People are all agreeing that the facts don't add up. I heard a lady DJ last night speculate that the rumor about Woods' affair was true, and that the wife found out about it and chased her husband out of the house with a golf club. Then she said "That's what *I* would do, if I found out my husband was cheating,"

Appalling. Just appalling. Yes, I know there are songs and literature in praise of jealousy and violence ("run for your life if you can, little girl. catch you with another man, that's the end, little girl,"). But I think there's a line in RL society in which men can't really say something about killing an unfaithful wife out loud, but it's still 'cute'and 'funny' when women threaten their men that way.

So, yeah, that's my theory. Maybe not the jealous rage, chasing him out of the house with a golf club, exactly, but I do think Mr. Woods is a victim of domestic violence. I suspected domestic abuse even before the DJ made her adorable comment about bashing in her husband's head.

I don't think the truth will ever come out. There's still a stigma on male abuse victims. Even worse for a big strong male athlete.

But it would be a great day for female-on-male domestic violence awareness, if it ever did happen.

(Stephen Hawking is also a male domestic abuse survivor, but you just don't hear much about that, do you?)

http://www.menweb.org/battered/

http://www.stopmaleabuse.com/