Is Woods Coverage Sexist?

In yet another twist to the Tiger Woods story, Robin Givhan has come to the defense of the golf star’s many mistresses. In an op-ed for The Washington Post, Givhan slams treatment of Woods’ paramours as sexist because the women have been mocked based on their occupations as waitresses, models, or bartenders, and that “their fairly mundane 9-to-5 gigs serve as a smoking gun of bad behavior.” Givhan writes that the women are treated worse than Woods himself: “While Woods is being portrayed as complicated and troubled, the women are merely types,” she writes, pointing out the massive power imbalance between the billionaire sports star and most of the women he cheated with. “Adultery is indefensible,” says Givhan. “But so is turning these women into interchangeable commodities.”