My coronary heart goes out to the groundskeepers.
Inevitably, fairways and greens are about to be completely littered with girls’s hygiene merchandise.
Tampons, largely, however there shall be golfers who rummage beneath their lavatory sinks solely to discover a long-forgotten sanitary pad, or their spouse’s menstrual cup (these issues are costly, guys! Don’t do it!).
All as a result of Tiger Woods made a joke – a “joke”- that we’ve all heard by now.
I’m positive you’ve got an opinion about it. Everybody does.
If that opinion is, “Boys shall be boys! Loosen up!” then you definately’ve in all probability stopped studying already.
In case you thought, “Ehh, it was dumb, however there’s worse issues occurring on this planet,” then let’s you and I’ve a chat.
All of us can agree on the implication of Woods slipping a tampon into fellow golfer Justin Thomas’s hand after outdriving him.
He was suggesting that Thomas was enjoying “like a woman.”
The implication being that girls are inferior to males. That we’re weaker. That to play like a lady is a foul factor, worthy of public mockery.
It’s insulting, and at a time when girls’s rights are being stripped away, it’s a foul look from the game’s most well-known athlete.
As a dwelling legend who’s obtained extra passes in his life than Saquon Barkley, I used to be most upset not within the joke however in Woods’ refusal to apologize.
As a result of right here’s the place a person exhibits how robust or weak he actually is.
When given the chance to mirror on how a misogynistic gesture from golf’s most recognizable face would possibly make girls really feel like there’s no place for them within the sport, Woods dodged.
The entire information headlines that trumpeted “Tiger Woods Apologizes for Tampon Prank”…no! He didn’t!
There was no apology!
What he stated was:
“If I offended anyone, it was not the case, it was simply mates having enjoyable. As I stated, if I offended anyone in any approach, form or kind, I’m sorry. It was not meant to be that approach. It was simply we play pranks on each other on a regular basis and virally I believe this didn’t come throughout that approach, however between us it was – it’s completely different.“
Girls, we’re simply too delicate!
It was mates having enjoyable! At girls’s expense! By calling them weak!
Attempt utilizing “I’m sorry you had been offended” in your subsequent argument. See how that goes.
The underside line? It’s not weak point to develop and to be taught. Or to apologize once you’ve acted like a dick. Even if you happen to didn’t notice you had been performing like a dick on the time. Particularly if you happen to didn’t notice you had been performing like a dick on the time.
The following time you’re known as out, take a beat. Speak with a buddy. Or your therapist. Mirror on the way you damage the one who known as you out on your habits.
Backside line?
If in case you have ever made a degree to inform a lady you voted for Hillary, please know that your work will not be completed.
Our era is meant to be the one which’s discovered. We must always know higher than to excuse locker room speak that occurs out within the open, on digicam, for the world to see.
Now, it’s as much as all of us to do higher.
