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Girlfriends' Guide: Tiger Woods Is A Baby, But His Wife Does A Real Man's Work

Posted: 12/11/09 08:24 AM ET

This morning the news shows replayed what seems to be Elin Woods' frantic call to 911 seeking paramedics to help her mother. Did you hear it? This poor girl is half-hysterical that her mother is collapsed in agony and when the operator asks if her mother is breathing, Elin helplessly responds with something like, "I don't know; I had to come here to the phone!" She then seems to rush back to check her mother's respiration.

Ridiculously and, like most self-important and uninformed people in positions of momentary authority, the operator admonishes her firmly to "calm down." Can we just agree right now that no emergency responders should ever, EVER, utter such ineffective and condescending words again?

But then we hear the most revealing aspect of the brief and compelling recording: A BABY IS CRYING IN THE BACKGROUND!! Isn't that astonishing in its predictability? Not only is Tiger Woods' wife publicly humiliated and stalked by relentless paparazzi because of her husband's appalling lack of taste and judgment, but she is wide awake at 2:30 in the morning seeking help for her mother and dealing with a fretful child.

Funny thing about the Woods house and 2:30am, since that's also the ungodly hour when Tiger crashed his car, twice, into inanimate objects. They should all just take those Ambien we hear he was prescribed and SLEEP!

Living in that Orlando area "mansion" (as it's always called in the media) must be a real bitch right now. His mother is there, her mother and sister are there, Elin is somewhere nearby (either in a another house down the street or in the Woods house) the babies are with Elin. Some reports say that Tiger's feisty mom was accused of helping keep his assignations secret from Elin, so I'm sure there's extra betrayal there, too.

I can just see Tiger now, in his big media room (all these jocks have big media rooms for watching games and drinking with the buddies.) He points the remote control at the window blinds to darken his womb and points another at the TV and turns it on LOUD. At his side on the Barcalounger is his still-smokin' blackberry so that he can feebly continue his pathetic damage control--or, if his track record is any indication, he's still reaching out to other girls for comfort. Icky icky.

Can't you just see Elin, out in the kitchen and family room where the sun still shines, handing her darling toddler daughter to her mother or sister so that she can feed her infant son for the hundredth time. As beautiful as she is, she must look exhausted and puffy from lack of sleep and constant crying, but there she remains as much as she can, as the Woman of the House. Like all women who learn their husbands have cheated, she feels like the tectonic plates beneath her life are sliding all over the place. She can't believe that her love has betrayed her.

One betrayal, though, might have been survivable. Nine or 10 or however many times he's disrespected their family, however, it is now a behavior too pathological to ignore. This year hasn't been a good one for child prodigies has it? First Michael and now Tiger; maybe they should have been allowed to learn how to live a life along the way.

And here's my message to the press parked outside the Woods' houses: Get out of there and give Elin and the kids the chance to get outside and escape from the House of Pain. Life will look a lot better to them all in the fresh air and sunshine.

 
 
 
This morning the news shows replayed what seems to be Elin Woods' frantic call to 911 seeking paramedics to help her mother. Did you hear it? This poor girl is half-hysterical that her mother is colla...
This morning the news shows replayed what seems to be Elin Woods' frantic call to 911 seeking paramedics to help her mother. Did you hear it? This poor girl is half-hysterical that her mother is colla...
 
 
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blessedfrog
save habeas corpus
08:11 AM on 12/14/2009
So true - there are two children under the age of 5 there - by all accounts Elin is a superb mother -yes yes we are all voyeurs on this disgusting rant - but Tiger would do himself and his family some good to spend time with his children - lots of it - focus the energies on creating good
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gurukalehuru
cwtc7
03:06 AM on 12/14/2009
Elin is still young, beautiful, extremely rich and probably, soon, single.
Somehow I can't feel too sorry for her.
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05:06 PM on 12/14/2009
How very superficial. Money and beauty can not sufficiantly make up for betrayal.
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ImaVeteran
09:50 PM on 12/13/2009
I'd like to see everything workout. But 12 women, how does any women forgive that?
I really think both should move on. It'd be better for all involved.

If I found out my wife boned 12 guys? I'd be like a flash!.
07:13 PM on 12/13/2009
Whats up with the sexism and stereotyping? I'm not sure that this wasn't a sexist rant for the author's personal agenda.
07:41 AM on 12/13/2009
A very oversexed baby.
10:28 PM on 12/12/2009
come off it, she has a nanny. i bet you think she does the laundry, cooking and grocery shopping too, huh?
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Okieborn
Equal Rights For All !
09:57 PM on 12/12/2009
As the old saying goes !!
Choices make your life !!
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SemperVeritas
Truth be told
09:07 PM on 12/12/2009
And you know all of this HOW???
11:08 PM on 12/12/2009
Female intuition = fact.

That's the state of the union, baby.
12:21 AM on 12/14/2009
Fanned.
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kbuffler42
08:47 PM on 12/12/2009
To Vickie Lovine and most of the commentators on this blog, please, stop talking about this. It's a tragedy, a train wreck for two children and their parents (their flawed human parents) taking place in the glare of the celebrity they chose! You know nothing about these people. All your comments are based on speculation! Shame on you.
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Cherie King
07:41 PM on 12/12/2009
Well, I am a woman and really tired of women playing victims. If rumors are true, Elin knew he was a cheater and he cheated on her before they married. If its true, its bad, she came here on a work visa and married a millionaire. She sacrificed self identity for money as far as i am concerned, I went to school with someone like that and her husband isn't even as rich by a 10th as Tiger Woods. Also there has been talk of Elin wanting to change the terms of the prenup, you can't change the rules in the middle of the game, its shows greed.
The "other" women coming out are all lying about what they know about Tiger's marriage, they'd have to have no access to a TV, the Internet, nor listen to the radio, nor read newspapers to not know he had 2 kids under 3 yrs old with Elin. Then there is a huge deal being made that 2 of the women were porn stars. The Porn industry has a way to monitor STD's that is much more rigorous than many of us follow. These women are also saying/whining that he did not wear condoms, ladies YOU are responsible for that, either he wears it or you kick him to the curb.
Suing a booty call is useless, especially if the wife knew of the behavior before marriage.
I am just tired of women falling in line with stereotypes and playing victims.
09:25 AM on 12/13/2009
I agree. Many thanks for your response.
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Treeske
02:14 PM on 12/13/2009
Cherie King,- You sound bitter and resentful to women especially those marrying into wealth. I hope you have not been dealt a card from the same deck as is Elin and appreciate women instead of resenting them.
03:08 PM on 12/13/2009
Oh, so Cherie King is bitter and resentful, because she disagrees with you? Nice going.
04:49 PM on 12/12/2009
Thank you for this awesome article.
04:44 PM on 12/12/2009
Well written. :)

The thing I find most pathetic is the men who support sports, i.e. fans. They will defend tiger (just like they did kobe, michel irving and so many others), no matter how many times he pathologically cheats expecting his wife to take him back.

Everything will be ok once tiger start playing golf again, actually as far as they are concerned with or with out tiger's family at his side. Because like the corporations, sport and news channels they could careless about what kind of person tiger, kobe or m irving are as long as these fans keep watching and buying sport related products.

It was an easy choice for me to stop watching and supporting professional sports 15 or 20 years ago. Remember when michel irving said, "All I have to do is make the next touchdown and the fans will forget."?
06:17 PM on 12/12/2009
She'll be lucky if he takes her back.
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SemperVeritas
Truth be told
09:08 PM on 12/12/2009
SHE will be lucky if HE takes her back???

Surely, you must have your pronouns switched.
12:37 PM on 12/12/2009
Tiger like many rich men married the pretty nanny, mainly to stay at home raise a family and spend the millions he makes. elin like many pretty faces marries the millioniare, gains access to a lot of money, life seems good as long as thier secrets stays in the closet. this again is very common.

now the closet door is busting and everyone is taking a look at the inside. people are taking side like they know what was realy going on in the marriage.

my prediction is that they will both come out of this okay. elin will be fine, despite the embarassment of a cheating husband, weather she stays or leave she will have a lot of money. more than she could make in 10 lifetime as a nanny.

tiger too has those 2 beautiful children for his trouble. he has already made enough money to sustain him for life even if he never plays again.
12:25 PM on 12/12/2009
Ah, one doubts Elin could have been ALL that clueless about Tiger's XXXtra-marital affairs. Really, most partners have at least an inkling. And in that insular community of pro-golf, people talk. Certainly she has ears. Perhaps, Elin, known for her un-public persona was more upset this was made public! C'mon, that would be MY last straw, too, what with mom collapsing and kid crying. Oh, and throw protective mother-in-law, the philanderer's alleged accomplice, into that mix! ARRGG!
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themodernleader
10:27 AM on 12/12/2009
This unleavened article tells the reader about the stereotyped American woman. She no longer sticks by her man. She is domineering and demanding. She knows that she is superior to men in most every way. She recognizes that she must rule the roost.
How in the hell can a man survive, much less, prevai in an environment where his own mate is ready to cut his throat at any provocation? My own response in a similiar situatiion was to retreat and escape (penniless) and I never went back to beautiful, self-centered, selfish American women.
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MrT3
11:53 AM on 12/12/2009
lol...preach!
01:52 AM on 12/13/2009
Yes, we're so selfish to expect our husbands to keep it in their pants. Gay marriage isn't the threat to heterosexual marriage, men are.
02:56 AM on 12/14/2009
Kaboom!
Virtual high-five, BlueTexasWoman !