O Shame, Where Art Thou?

In the midst of all the exceedingly sad Tiger Woods + Elin Nordegren + undetermined number of women of ill repute DRAMA, I have come to some questions I can't answer:

• Were we always so culturally interested in affairs, marriage implosions and the lurid details of everyone's indiscretions? I actually think it has become somewhat boring - the weirdo car crash, in this case, did help the sensational factor but the storyline is tiresomely depressingly old.

• What do women say to other women about these sorts of situations? Do we blame Elin? Blame Tiger? Blame the "other" women? All parties are painting themselves as victims, but somehow that can't be true for everyone.

In terms of my gut reaction

1. Women - The fact that the transition from cocktail waitress to millionaire is contingent only upon hunting down the requisite prey and a bit of extortion is, in my opinion, equally sad and disgusting.
   
2. Men - you've seen this storyline play out so many times. And yet each of you, with enough power and money, believe that you are exempt from the consequences of such decisions. Apparently this is not a new situation as King Lemuel's mom told him (in Proverbs 31), "Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings."
3. Parents: raise your sons and daughters to know how to relate to the opposite gender, understand that marriage is hard-but-worthwhile work, and that sexual conquests are not proof of personal worth, manhood or womanhood, as apparently some in this situation were wont to believe. First, of course, you have to believe those things too.
   

So there's my two cents...thoughts?