Tigergate--Supposedly It's Over

Woods' wife Elin supposedly will pack it in after Christmas and move back to Sweden.

There is only so much a wife will take, no matter how rich the cheating spouse:

CHEATING Tiger Woods' wife will DUMP him after Christmas, we can sensationally reveal.


Shattered Swedish model Elin Nordegren is in talks with divorce lawyers but keeping up a show of normal family life for the sake of their two children.


With her mind in turmoil over what to do for the best, Elin wants to spend Christmas with Tiger and the kids in Sweden before a trial separation in the New Year, she confided to a close friend.


And last night, as major sponsor Gillette DROPPED the disgraced golf superstar from their advertising, the pal told us: "Elin will pretend it's the usual family celebration for the children and then ditch the man.

He allegedly cheated around on his wife the night his father died.

Speaking of that parade of mistresses, is there a double standard involved, as if the question needs to be asked? The women, as we all know, are sluts for getting involved with a married man, but poor rich man Tiger is simply a troubled individual who couldn't help but engage in blatant promiscuity.

But not only the women's behavior is suspect, it's also what they do for a living, whether as porn stars or hash slingers. They are cheap and tawdry, certainly inferior to the megastar Woods:

Waitressing and modeling are jobs typically associated with women, which makes maligning them seem rather sexist. And unless one manages to become the equivalent of Tyra Banks or Heidi Klum, who once strutted around in Victoria's Secret lingerie and a set of angel wings, they are not especially well paying, either. (Although one of the "Trashy models" on that company's Web site is burlesque star Dita Von Teese, who has made a name performing at parties for the likes of Fendi, and who regularly receives a seat of honor at runway shows for such houses as Chanel.)

Because of the financial imbalance between the billionaire Woods and the women linked to him, there's a power imbalance, too. So it makes sense to hold up the occupations as emblematic of that inequity. But there's something else going on as well, something that speaks to the idea that certain jobs -- banal jobs that popular culture has tainted -- are an indication of moral fiber, of self-respect and of just how easily one might crumble in the face of wealth, fame and a big, wide smile. Maybe we should begin by blaming Hugh Hefner and his Playboy bunnies for forever transforming the job of shuttling drinks around a lounge into something that is suggestive and sexually tantalizing. It doesn't seem to matter that back in their heyday, those Playboy bunnies followed all sorts of rules about how they were supposed to walk and bend and comport themselves in the room. No matter, the tease is what everyone remembers, and what has stuck in the psyche.