Woods is still making the same stupid mistakes, advertising that having gone through what for most of us would be a profoundly life-altering public disaster, Woods remains stuck on his factory settings
If you have to explain it afterward, it doesn’t work.And if you find yourself holding a news conference to apologize for telling it, it’s time to hire new writers.It isn’t that the joke in question – handing golf colleague Justin Thomas a tampon, so as to suggest that he was playing in a womanly way – is offensive. A lot of offensive jokes are hilarious. It’s that it’s mean-spirited.
This is a high-risk, high-reward proposition. Maybe all she’ll hear is the ‘sorry’ part. Or maybe you’ll do it in the kitchen, near the knives. But one of the last reliable ways to get a general audience interested in golf is mooning about all the things Woods has overcome, and may overcome still. People love that redemption arc.The real question here isn’t why tell the joke. We know why people think this sort of goof is hysterical. Because they don’t like women much. They may think they do, but they don’t. This sort of guy always wants you to know how much he loves his mom. Okay, but she’s the exception to your rule.
You put those two things together and you’d assume the end result is a guy who would do anything to avoid controversy. Then he does this. If it’s a provocation, you could almost admire it. Not the form maybe, but the function – to bait as many people as possible. To establish that he is unbowed. Or something.
Beyond the dreary temptation to scold, there is something in here about the capacity of the human mind to filter what it does and doesn’t want to learn.
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