Back when Chris Brown beat up Rhianna everyone got (rightfully) outraged.  Everyone was sympathetic, unquestionably on her side, etc.  I wondered on my blog if the roles were ever reversed whether or not public opinion would ever be in the man’s favor.

It may not be the same situation, and investigations are still ongoing so as of right now we don’t know anything beyond what’s being speculated and reported, but right now the situation with Tiger Woods looks pretty close.  And, as I suspected–even as he was running away from her coming at him with a golf club–it’s all Tiger’s fault.

Some comments:

Serves him right..[deleted] Shame on you Tiger and I’m glad Elin is good with a golf club too

Save your marriage Tiger, the grass is not greener on the other side. Mrs. woods needs some anger management, but that is not a dealbreaker.

Too back for Tiger though. He was such a role model and inspired a lot of people.

Go, Elin Woods, go! If he’s playing Hide the Salami elsewhere, let him have it.

Take the money and run, Elin. Tiger Woods is a major disappointment.

Go Erin Go girl. Shud have hit him in the groin.

And my personal favorite:

Team Elin all the way. She’s just showing him what happens when he gets out of line.

reblogged from amandoline:

I’m proud to say that Katy and I have done all but three of these.  We’ve never played frisbee, she’s never washed my car, and we’ve yet to take a carriage ride through the park.

UPDATE:  OH SHEESH yes we did, in Mackinaw.  So only two to go.  But, 76/78 ain’t bad!

UPDATE:  Another great blog about the differences between boys and girls.

I thought this was relevant because of the discussion in one of my earlier posts.  Sad and surprising, but eye-opening in a “what I will teach my kids” kind of way.  I tend to agree with the second paragraph.

From TheWeek:

Sure, singer Chris Brown punched, bit, and choked his girlfriend, the pop star Rihanna, so badly that she landed in the hospital, according to a police report. But for Brown to get that angry, it must have been Rihanna’s fault. At least that’s what a lot of teenagers believe, said Jan Hoffman in The New York Times. In a finding that has sparked consternation among parents and domestic-violence experts and led to a new crusade by Oprah Winfrey, nearly half of 200 teenagers polled by the Boston Public Health Commission held Rihanna responsible for her recent assault. “She probably made him mad for him to react like that,” a female ninth-grader said. Reports that the couple have reunited, and recorded a new duet together, have further muddied the lines of responsibility. “She probably feels bad that it was her fault, so she took him back,” one girl said.

For this ugly way of thinking, I blame feminism, said Kathryn Jean Lopez in National Review Online. Back before “natural gender roles” were deliberately muddled, it was normal “for us to expect men to protect women, and for women to expect some level of physical protection.” But feminism conditioned us to view men and women as equals. “By inventing oppression where there is none and remaking woman in man’s image, as the sexual and feminist revolutions have done, we’ve confused everyone.” Teens are making excuses for Chris Brown because they no longer expect men to treat women with special deference.

You’ve got it backward, said prosecutor Glenn F. Ivey in The Washington Post. At a middle school I visited recently, I heard the same blame-the-victim talk about Rihanna. But “the room froze” when I asked whether Barack Obama could ever be justified in hitting Michelle. “Putting hands on Michelle Obama was somehow unthinkable.” And therein lies the power of the First Lady, a strong and dignified feminist and mother. Mrs. Obama could make a difference in countless lives if she focused on domestic violence as “one of her primary issues.” Ultimately, though, said DeWayne Wickham in USA Today, it comes down to what we tell our own daughters. Here’s what I’m telling my 15-year-old: One in four women gets beaten up by a man. Many of them then make the same mistake as Rihanna, and believe the guy when he says it won’t ever happen again. “Don’t walk away from that man,” I’ll tell my daughter. “Run.”

…that if the situation were reversed and Chris Brown got the shit beat out of him by Rihanna, we’d all be wondering what Chris Brown did to deserve it.

Disclaimer:  This in no way is meant to imply that Rihanna deserved it, I’m just using that as an example.  I really don’t care to know the details of their personal lives.  I just don’t like the double standard.  Sure, “there’s no excuse for violence against women,” but can’t we just make that “there’s no excuse for violence?”