Part of being a role model is teaching your children how to accept responsibility for your behavior. Life will reveal character through the lens of adversity. How parents deal with adversity and look to themselves as the cause of their problems shows in how their children behave.

Tiger isn't letting his kids down by being a manslut; that's built in his DNA–when you add worldwide adulation and a billion dollars, it's even tougher to remain faithful.

What Tiger has revealed about himself is he is a coward. If he had called a presser and made a statement about his behavior being unacceptable and selfish, publicly apologized to his family, and apologized to his legion of fans, it would be over.

All his kids and fans see is someone who hides, who buys people off so they won't tell the truth; more interested in rehabbing his image instead looking inside and dealng with himself.

So sad.

And you're right, he absolutely is a role model for his family, but should not be for anybody else.

Tiger does deserve to lose fans for his actions. The degree is up to each person. Some people probably won't care–what does that say about them? Some will dislike him as a person and refuse to buy his memorabilia anymore, but still root for him as a golf course, divorcing Tiger the person from Tiger the golfer. It happens all the time with the public's perceptions of movie stars and musicians; it'll happen here, too. And then there will be those who refuse to root for him in any manner. Fandom is different than herodom. Athletes are not heros, but they do have fans and deserve to lose those fans based on their actions.

And, yes, right now I would put average non-cheating men above Tiger. I think they would be right to feel superior as this is a major moral failing.

And Nate, though I agree that athlete doesn't equal hero, I'm no longer a fan. I don't expect the people I root for to be perfect, but I do want them to be decent people and serial cheating on the mother of your two children isn't decent.

In my experience, most women would not. Most men never get the chance. That was the point.

All the yakkin' about Tiger being a fraud and how he's let people down is mainly from guys who lack the talent, the bank account or the societal status to ever have to worry about turning down super models or porn stars–and/or by women who haven't had new knockers, can't afford a weekly waxing or manicure and don't have time to spend four hours a day at the gym.

Most of us can't wrap our minds around the lifestyle many of these "elite" people live.

To superimpose "normal" values and expectations on people who can trek off to St. Kitts if they get a hangnail is comical but a perfect reflection of American society.

We love the "drama" when the beautiful people fail. Then we wait for the interview on Oprah or the press conference where the penitent sap cries for forgiveness and the humiliated wife stands by in her designer outfit wearing a hamburger-sized diamond on her hand.

It's easier than having to contact our congress people and demanding they support a public option.

But by the over-sized attention to this story, I'm beginning to think this is all an orchestrated distraction from the real news going on. I mean, plenty of folks would have known about Tiger's affairs. Info held until the "right" time, I'm starting to think.

However, to your main point … everyone would do it if they had the chance … I don't agree. There are people for whom random sex is not a driving interest, especially when it's always and constantly an option. Some people are simply not wired like that. It gets old, loses its excitement if it's always there. They've got other stuff to do. Not saying they're common, just that they're out there.

That anybody is surprised scream of naivete or disingenuousness.