Interesting (Where "interesting" = "totally predictable.")

[Trigger warning.]

You might have heard that, over the weekend, Tiger Woods got into a car accident. His version of the story has Woods getting lacerations on his face from the accident and casts his wife as a hero for knocking out the windows of his vehicle with a golf club to rescue him. Another version of the story casts his wife as a domestic abuser who gave him the lacerations on his face during a fight and smashing the windows of his vehicle in anger at rumors he was cheating before he hurriedly drove off and quickly crashed.

I have no idea what the truth is. If it's true that Woods was abused, he has the same compelling reasons that every victim of domestic violence has to mask the truth, plus the added feelings of shame that men victimized by women frequently feel by virtue of our cultural narratives about manhood. If it's not true that he was abused, the salaciousness of the tall tale and its appeal to prurient gossip-mongers provides the requisite motivation for the tabloids to promote the lie, even if they know it to be a lie.

So I don't know—and neither does anyone else who's just reading along at home—and I'm not going to speculate. (Nor is such speculation welcome in comments.) The reason I am mentioning the story at all is because I find it interesting who suddenly has an interest in domestic violence, when it's a woman accused of doing it.