Daniel B. Kline: New law would keep Tiger Woods single
Published 4:57 pm Thursday, August 26, 2010
With the ink barely dry on his divorce papers, Tiger Woods now has every right to date as many strippers, skanks and porn stars as his heart desires.
If the one-time-great golfer wants to become involved with two Kardashian sisters, a handful of “Hills” castoffs and the entire waitstaff of the Indianapolis Hooters, Woods can fill his every waking moment with a flood of breast implants, hot pants, spray tanner and giant sunglasses.
What Woods should not be able to do again — at least for some time — is get married.
If you get convicted of drunk driving, you lose your license for a period of time.
The same should apply to marriage as Woods has certainly been convicted of being a bad husband of epic proportions.
As part of any divorce decree, judges should have the right to assign blame and impose a waiting period before each divorcee can marry again.
Since Woods was a serial cheater who clearly placed little value in his wedding vows, he would be banned from remarrying for, let’s say, five years.
His wife, however, whose only crime was being way too trusting and ignoring some pretty obvious signs, would receive a lesser sentence of perhaps six months.
This new law should also impose penalties or consequences for creating pseudo-marriages like having kids with the woman you were cheating with or immediately moving her in with you.
Let’s call that rule the Mel Gibson corollary as, had it existed, it may have stopped the movie star from the events that led to his recent, very public implosion.
While this new law would probably require an amendment to the Constitution, we should move forward with it as it not only protects men from making the same mistake over and over, but it clearly protects the women who marry them.
Why would any woman think Donald Trump, Kelsey Grammer or Larry King would suddenly be a better husband the third or fourth time around?
Woods has only been single for a few days and various news outlets have reported that more than one of his “ex-girlfriends” would be interested in marrying him. While the man certainly has money, he obviously lacks even basic moral decency.
Why would any woman ever trust Woods again?
Woods being a complete jerk and his obvious desire to sleep with more than one woman concurrently will not, however, deter him from getting married again.
If women are lining up to date Jon Gosselin (and, sadly, they are), then certainly Tiger will have more than a few choices.
If Congress won’t pass my marriage moratorium, than let’s at least mandate that if any celebrity who gets divorced after a giant scandal chooses to remarry, he has to allow a reality show camera to follow him at all times.
That way we could document the 15 minutes Woods remains faithful to his second wife and get to enjoy his next 17 affairs.
Daniel B. Kline’s work appears in more than 100 papers weekly. He can be reached at dan@notastep.com or you can see his archive at dbkline.com or befriend him at facebook.com/dankline. Follow him on Twitter, @worstideas.