Adam Lambert meet Elizabeth Lambert: the male/female double standard

From what I know as of this writing Adam Lambert and Elizabeth Lambert aren't related at all. But the fact that they share the same last name Lambert caused me to wonder if they were kindred sprits. After all, within the past 30 days, both have been the focus of internet chatter on their outrageous behavior.

That Adam Lambert openly kissed his male guitarist and ground one of his performers face into his crotch, then said he had nothing to apologize for, made me wonder what our reaction would have been if Elizabeth Lambert had said "I grabbed hair and punched my opponent to win; I have nothing to apologize for because that's the way the game's played."



I think it would have gone something like this: Lambert would have been suspended but gained a ground-swell of support from both male and female athletes, who then would be countered by their teammates claiming to support "clean play". Lambert would be quickly booked on all of the morning talk shows. On The View Whoppi would challenge Elizabeth to a fight saying "Girl if you ever dreamed of grabbing my hair I'd wipe the field with you," to which Lambert would just smile and flex a bicep.

Elizabeth Lambert

On Larry King Live, Lambert would advocate for female athletes to use "tough, hard, and win-at-all-costs" play tactics and eliminate the idea of the weak, defenseless woman once and for all. Lambert would then reach over and tweek King's suspenders, giving him another YouTube moment on the heels of Carrie Prejean.

Eventually, Elizabeth Lambert would be offered a deals for a book called "Why I Did It" and a reality TV show named "Female Tough: Elizabeth Lambert On Sports". Within two year's Lambert would be rich, a new era of dirty but online-media-ready-play would take over female athletics, and guys all over would be turned on by and drawn to the new, hard, take-no-prisoners attitude of female athletics. Women's sports program deficits would end, recruiting efforts would accelerate, and TV ratings would skyrocket.

And all of that because Elizabeth Lambert dared speak what was on her mind rather than hide behind the socially-acceptable role crafted for women athletes, basically telling the New York Times that person on the field woman-handling BYU wasn't her.

Nuts.

I'm not condoning dirty play in sports, but as I've said before Elizabeth Lambert is the modern female athlete. I just wish we'd accept her as she is and stop trying to control her. Elizabeth, that was you out there, just let go and admit it.