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So what are you saying, you've seen Tiger's penis and it is not nasty, pink, or skinny? Or that penis' color and size are the criteria for being 'hot'?
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Anonymous
Oh shut up you jealous and envious freak! I still think Tiger is the sexiest man alive!!!!He's got the body and looks to die for,plus the $$$$$$$$$$ thats why every blonde wants him! |
Anonymous
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One person's perspective, from Fanhouse blog (well respected sports blog) And BTW, I think Annie L is digusting to sell out this way. I used to respect her so much:
"Now there is yet another woman with whom Tiger Woods is linked who is not his wife. Her name is Susie Phipps. Phipps was born in Louisiana and married to a rich crawfish merchant. When she applied for her first passport in 1977, she was informed that she incorrectly designated her race as white. The state informed her that it changed her race to black because her ancestors included an 18th century white planter who impregnated a black slave. Phipps protested that she'd grown up as if she was white all her life. She even sued the state. Tough luck, everyone told her. She was remanded to black status forevermore, no matter how she lived her life or with whom she slept. Tiger learned Monday that he is a male Mrs. Phipps. Vanity Fair, a pillar in the virtually all-white magazine industry, refused his desire to be thought of even as Calabanasian, as he coined his mixed-race (Caucasian, black, Native American and Asian) heritage. It invalidated his white bona fides of being raised in the suburbs, mastering golf -- the whitest sport of them all -- and even marrying a quintessential Swedish woman, blond and blue eyed. Instead, Vanity Fair returned Tiger to his late father's dominant race: black. How else can one explain the cover photo Vanity Fair unveiled Monday of a half-naked Tiger lifting iron with a skull cap topping his sullen mug? Tiger got O.J.-ized. 3 Share As Time magazine infamously darkened the skin of America's once favorite (i.e. unthreatening) black athlete, O.J. Simpson, on its cover after he was arrested on a charge of murdering his ex-wife, Vanity Fair muddied the image of the Tiger we've had in mind until recently: the wholesome, clean-cut everyman; the original post-racial (whatever that is) American; Obama before Obama. How does prison-yard thug grab you? It looks enough to have made Tupac pour out a little liquor. The half-nude Tiger also harkened to the generations' old image of the black man as something less than human, not unlike the Vogue cover shot two years ago of a raging LeBron James gripping the whisp-of-a-blond Gisele Bundchen, now Tom Brady's wife and mother of one of Brady's children. The Vanity Fair cover isn't so premeditated, though. It's emotional reaction. The photo is four years old, as were six more tucked inside. Famed pop photographer Annie Leibovitz pulled them out of her vault and sold them to the magazine, which blew up whatever cover it was scheduled to print -- feature magazine covers are planned months in advance – to hop on the Tiger bandwagon, which doesn't so much as transport Tiger as run over him. (I admit to riding in it somewhere.) How does prison-yard thug grab you? It looks enough to have made Tupac pour out a little liquor. That is one of the great ironies to this seemingly never-ending story about the first billionaire athlete. Ever since his fateful car wreck in the wee hours after Thanksgiving, Tiger is the only person not making money off of Tiger. Yahoo! Inc. CEO Carol Bartz crudely admitted last month what a boon Tiger's tales are to Internet traffic. Now Vanity Fair, feeling the trembles in the wracked magazine business, is cashing in with a quick mock-up of heretofore unpublished partially nude photos of Tiger. Leibovitz can use a little extra loot, too. Late last year, she was reported to be near bankruptcy. Tiger is now cash in comeuppance. All of a sudden, "the blacks" using their top pick to select Tiger in The Racial Draft on Chappelle's Show, Dave Chappelle's Comedy Central show, is as prescient as it is hilarious. Ever since Tiger embraced Nike's idea to introduce him to the public as some sort of racial pioneer -- "There are still courses in the United States that I am not allowed to play because of the color of my skin. Hello world. I've heard that I'm not ready for you. Are you ready for me?" Tiger said in that 1996 commercial -- I've waited for him to live up to it. Instead, he's wiggled out of questions about racial identity and opportunities to stand up against the good ol' boys (see Augusta National) as deftly as he has the rough or a sand trap. When I first broached the unraveling of Tiger's stripes on Nov. 30, I wrote that "the commercial prophylactic that is sheathing his oh-so perfect image" will have failed when "one of the national magazines that puts him on the cover ... darkens his tone." My prediction came up short only because I expected it would have happened in the first week after his golf-club wielding wife Elin opened a Pandora's Box of her husband's life rather than just the back windows of the Escalade he wrecked outside their Florida home. Still, at the rate Tiger is falling, he'll need Ken Burns to sympathetically document his life in hope of creating groundswell support for a presidential pardon. Unforgivable Blackness, Burns' film about the first black heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson -- who was imprisoned almost a century ago because of his romance with a white woman -- generated a congressional request late last year to the Justice Department for Johnson's pardon. Sadly, it was refused. The Vanity Fair cover, however, was an easy prediction. This is what happens in America. Tiger isn't the first person of color to eventually fail at redefining his identity. Neither was celebrated Harvard professor Skip Gates, who championed his Irish heritage in the PBS documentary African American Lives 2 before some Cambridge cops last summer threw him in the hoosegow for acting uppity. (He came to epitomize what Malcolm X famously said most of America calls a black man with a PhD.) Neither O.J. nor Mrs. Phipps were the first either. This is something that's been going on in this country for as long as most black folks can remember. Now everyone else can see the truth. "I've always defended Woods' freedom to call himself Calabanasian," Salon.com editor-in-chief Joan Walsh blogged Monday. "But Vanity Fair just proved the arguments of black people who dislike what they see as Woods' racial dodge. He'll always be black, but especially after he gets in trouble." Welcome home, Tiger. You long ago earned your PGA card. Now you can get the NAACP" |
Anonymous
This was funny. 
Sorry, nobody is jealous of his face or belly button. Every woman wants him because of his money. He wants every blonde because he's insecure and whats a status symbol on his arm. |
Anonymous
Angelina Jolie likes it, and that's all that matters. |
Anonymous
Oh no not her name again! Angelina Jolie STOLE Jen's husband....she can settle for anything! she is so phony! |
Anonymous
You pick the wrong person - Brad always looks "unwashed" to me, so yeah, I would have the same reaction. |
Anonymous
No, she did not steal her husband. You cannot steal someone's husband or wife. If he was so easily persuaded to leave as you suggest for another woman, the marraige was not so good anyway and he had already left, mentally if not physically. |
Anonymous
Maybe she didn't "steal" him but she should have backed the fuck off. He was married at the time and even if he was emotionally or mentally checked out from the relationship doesn't mean it was doomed. We all tend to go through rough times in our marriages but that doesn't mean they can't be worked on and saved. I think it was made pretty clear that Brad and Jen were still living together when Mr and Mrs. Smith were being made and it was during this movie that the affair started. You don't seduce someone who is married or let yourself be seduced by someone who is married. There are times when temptation is there, and it's so hard not to give in, but you have to look past the here and now and think about what your actions would bring. I have been tempted during the low parts of my marriage but I know that the low parts don't last forever and I don't want to add more problems to the issues we are working out. |
Anonymous
| Why do women always blame the women when and not the men in these situations. I don't think I recall ever hearing or reading that Ms. Jolie made a commitment to Ms. Anniston. The commitment was made between Mr. Pitt and Ms. Aniston. Why so much angst against the woman and not the man. |
Anonymous
These three are so tiresome. |
Anonymous
I agree. Interesting that nobody is blaming Brad. I think Brad was attracted to her from the get go, even before they started filming. I think he was trying to do a picture with her so he could meet her. After all, why on earth would an Oscar winning actor of his status do a flimsy non-substantive movie like Mr. and Mrs. Smith? He had the hots for her all along and was looking for a way to be with her. And the same goes for her. She said in an interview that Brad insisted his marriage was completely over also. So why is HE convincing her of that? If anyone is to blame, it is more Brad's fault than Angelina's. He was married. She was not. He took a vow. She did not. |
Anonymous
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That still gives Angelina no excuse!She is a marriage wrecker!!!!!!!She stole Jen's husband.
Brad and Jen were still married when she came into the picture......uh...I hate Angelina!!!!!!!She has to pay one day!!!!I hope!!!! 
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I don't think anyone is saying that Brad isn't to blame. He certainly is. I think they are saying that she shouldn't have given into his advances and respected the fact that he was married. It doesn't matter if the marriage is rocky or not he was still married.
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Anonymous
It sounds like you have your own issues! |