November 18th, 2009
Some of you may remember Elizabeth Lambert as the UNM soccer player who’s half Vinnie Jones and half Bill Laimbeer. Well now she’s taken it up a notch, with what might be the biggest heel-turn in sports since the Honky-Tonk Man.
In yesterday’s New York Times Lambert claimed that she’s the real victim. Victim of what? Pretty much everything. A brief summary of people who have done Lambert wrong:
* The dirty BYU players who started it.
* Fans in the stands who taunted her.
* The ref, who made a mistake in not issuing cards (to Lambert?) sooner.
* Sexism in the media for focusing on her actions.
* Sexism in the culture for turning her into a villain.
* Bloggers and emailers who’ve said mean things about/to her.
And you thought she couldn’t get any less likable!
Jason November 18, 2009 at 4:57 pm
The best part of this is the amount of ink (pixels?) spilled by NYT for this story, notice how the article loops back a couple of times to traditional pomo themes of gender, sexuality, et al.Selena Roberts is gone from the NYT, but her spirit lives on!