From last week’s Saturday Night Live:
Hee-hee-heelarious! And you know what’s even funnier? Guess who the musical guest was? Rihanna! Oh, LOL! She got to sit backstage and watch a bunch of crowd-pleasing jokes about domestic abuse go out on national TV! ROTFL!
Hey, how come SNL never did a sketch about Rihanna bumping her face into a car window 8-10 times? Where was the rib-tickling sight gag with a steering wheel wrapped around her head? Why is domestic abuse a horrible thing unless it’s happening to a man?
“Tiger’s wife has good reason to kick his cheatin’ ass,” you say. “He had it comin’,” you say. Well, I’m sure Chris Brown thought he had good reason to do what he did too. It wasn’t until society put great pressure on him that he pretended to be sorry. Now we’ve got another possible case of domestic abuse among the rich and famous, and it’s a big joke. Sorry, but it’s wrong, no matter who the victim is or what he or she might have done.
In other domestic abuser news: None other than Chris Brown tells Vibe that he feels like Oprah stabbed him in the back. Way to make us forget about your violent streak, genius.
Update: Turns out Woods was hurt worse than first reported, and the hospital sending him home as quickly as they did was “highly unusual.”
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If I’d been Rihanna, I would have walked out of the show at the moment. I guess that’s why I don’t have a career in entertainment.
Don’t worry it’s SNL, so no one with half a brain actually watched it anyway.
This is about as fair, or progressive, as the Shanna Moakler divorce cake. You know, the one with the bloody icing and the teensy little bride stabbing the teensy little groom to death?
If it’s wrong for Chris Brown to beat up a girl–and IT IS–then it’s also wrong and most unfunny to set up a Tiger Woods domestic-violence scenario.
Besides, I see some serious racism here. No kidding–when Bill Clinton was found to have been riding everything but a bike, people fell all OVER themselves defending him. Tiger Woods is a whoredog, and apparently he’s going to be chased right out of a career. What the hell?
When it comes to abuse, the abuser has no one to blame. No one can make you do anything.
It’s your choice.
Now we’ve got another possible case of domestic abuse
Let’s be clear here *IF* she did assault him, then she needs to be arrested and jailed for DV, but to date, there has been absolutly no evidence that she did. All the evidence in favor or it so far is of the SNL “I hope she wacked him upside the head with his own driver” type or TMZ rumor.
Absolutely no evidence. Er, except his facial lacerations… and the golf club she smashed his window with…
And regardless, the point is that there’s a double standard. What if Rihanna had claimed Chris Brown braked too fast, and she wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and hit her face against the dash? Would it have been okay for SNL to do a similar skit with her secretly pleading for help?
I saw the skit, and was kind of surprised as I watched. I was uncomfortable watching, I can’t imagine how that made it through several rehearsals and no one said, hey, maybe this isn’t a good idea with RIHANNA as the musical guest! I admit to laughing at it, though with that discomfort that comes with knowing that what you are laughing at wouldn’t be funny if it was really happening. Anyone else struggling to reconcile being against domestic violence, but understanding why Tiger’s wife may have taken a golf club to him (if she did, which for the kids’ sake, I hope she didn’t)? I even have a male relative who has been the victim of domestic violence, yet my knee-jerk reaction to the Tiger story was, “yeah, you make him pay, girl”. I know it’s wrong, I do. But like a lot of people, I laughed at the skit, I empathize with the desire to smack Tiger upside the head. Are we socialized to tolerate/condone violence toward (male) cheaters? Am I a bit evil? (Probably.) Is this a case of visualizing revenge is common and understandable, but actually doing it is wrong?
I honestly hope things work out for the best for Tiger and his family, however that may be, if only for the kids’ sake.
We all know that if the genders were reversed – if there was a sketch about a man beating up on his wife and putting her in the hospital – there would be outrage. Interesting double standard, there, but nothing new.
I agree with Skippy about there being an obvious double standard. I also have a family member who was punched out routinely by his wife every time his high tech job was eliminated. The thing to keep in mind wasn’t her anger with him over his job losses, but that she used it as a convenient excuse to not only hit him, but to continue doing so for years. And every time he did lose his jobs in the first round of layoffs, she would rearrange his face so it became impossible for him to take interview for other jobs straight away, thus putting more fuel on her fire. It was all her, and when he finally left, she made sure he lost everything – including his kids after she told them their daddy was sleeping with one of their teachers. Total lie, but whatever, right? As long as the barely teenage kids sided with her.
I feel bad for Tiger having to live with that, but I also feel bad for Elin with the number of chicks coming out to out Tiger faster than a set of numbers under golden arches moves after a brisk lunch crowd. Fuck. How embarrassing. I would be mortified if I were here. I get the feeling she thought she was in a real marriage, whereas he just pretended to be married.
Still! There is no excuse whatsoever for hitting anyone. None!
You wanna know why there were no jokes about Chris Brown assaulting Rihanna? The feminists would have been in an uproar.
So true, Rocco. Everyone’s concerned with violence against women, and rightly so; but it’s a statistical fact that women are equally likely to instigate domestic violence. Hitting, punching, or kicking men seems to be viewed as humorous, or “he deserved it.” Violence against ANYBODY is NOT okay.
That skit absolutely pisses me off.
Pretty bad. Elin Woods would have hurt Tiger more by holding her head high and taking their children and leaving. Attacking him physically is not right and not funny.
@ Rocco Lore & blueblue – If you take the time to check out something like Jezebel, you’ll see that feminists DON’T think this is funny, and that this was NOT ok. Turning DV into a joke is not funny, regardless of who the joke victim is.
If he has been th victim of DV, then it is not right, regardless of his actions.
I do not care how many whores he did sleep with, he did not have to get beaten up by it. I would take the kids and go. The more I read about this, the madder I get. Especially since I thought Tiger was one of the good guys. Domestic violence is wrong, no matter who is at the receiving end.
And Rihanna should have known better. She was there for a few days rehearsing, so she should have taken the high road as well.
If the feminist movement had any credibility they lost it in their vigorous defense of Slick Willie and continued support of Hillary.
Yeah, Hurricane, that blonde reporter’s “I’d be happy to give him a blowjob just for keeping abortion legal” didn’t exactly constitute feminism’s finest hour.
Absolutely no evidence. Er, except his facial lacerations… and the golf club she smashed his window with…
Both of which can be explained by her claim she smashed the window to help get him out.
Is she telling the truth? Maybe, maybe not. It’s all just speculation. But then again, that’s all you’ve got too. But given that Tiger is not saying anything and that the police, who are obligated to arrest on evidence of DV regardless of the victim’s wishes, do not think his injuries are consistent with an attack, I think odds are highly in favor of presuming her innocence.
And regardless, the point is that there’s a double standard.
With that, I’m with you all the way, 100%. I just think it doesn’t require impugning the character of someone against all evidence to the contrary to make that point.
In Elin’s defense, viking women do carry the berserker gene.
I was stunned when I saw the skit. If there was any doubt regarding what hypocrites they are it has now vanished.
One could almost feel their desperation at trying to be “hip” and “funny”. Both of which failed.
What idiots…
You do it your way, I’ll do it mine.
Just watched… part of the skit and thought it was stupid and boring. While domestic violence is wrong I can see where it can have comical tendencies, due to the notion that men=strong and dominate and women=weak and submissive. The reversing these roles is “funny” cuz it’s so not true right.
But the real comical value is pointing out how ugly and stupid those people are(the ones using domestic violence, NOT the victim. Which is what they did here, they made Tiger the one to laugh at).
I always thought it was a double standard where woman can slap and punch men because they’re “upset”, but men should not.
One of my most hated songs is Carrie Underwood’s song about destroying her cheating boyfriend’s car. 1, that’s a criminal offense. 2, how is that at all decent behavior. Yet everyone’s like hell yeah girl get’em. In the end you’re only gettin’ yourself.
Domestic abuse is never ever funny. It can happen to anyone, man or woman. No one should be laughing about the issue.
-Denise
this is ‘funny’ in the same way that actually cutting off a part of a man’s anatomy and tossing it away is just downright ‘HiLaRiOus’ !! of course, carving up any part of a woman would be totally sick and demented. double standard doesn’t even begin to cover it.
mfrag, that’s why I like to take the “soul-destroying” approach to cheating ex-boyfriends. You can’t arrest me for making you cry, sir!
When it comes to abuse, the abuser has no one to blame. No one can make you do anything.
It’s your choice.
The horrible irony is that many people still don’t believe that domestic violence where women abuse men even exists. Women who do beat up their husbands or boyfriends often pretend that he either “deserved” it or that it was self-defense. People don’t believe it’s possible for a woman to rape someone or molest a child, either, but it does happen, and the victims often face outrageous disbelief. It’s a terrible double standard and I, as a feminist, think it’s degrading. Men should be our equals, not our enemies.
This all puts me in mind of Christopher Titus’s routine “Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding,” the only instance I know of where domestic violence can be funny (while being really awful at the same time, mind you). He was regurlarly beaten by his ex-girlfriend, who would then cry and say, “I’m sorry! I have a sugar imbalance!” That was her excuse. Yeah, it’s on par with blaming “intermittent explosive disorder” (look that one up, you’re not going to believe it).
Anna–I LOVE that show. “No, diabetes is a sugar imbalance. YOU are a hormonal Molotov cocktail!” (Or words to that effect…) Interesting also that he points out how the cops would usually tell fighting couples to “work it out”, but then they’d invariably have to come right back, because the couple HAD worked it out, but the loser was dead. Almost invariably, women are presumed to be the victims, which means the men have no recourse; even trying to leave the scene to AVOID a confrontation can get them into trouble.