​Inside a Las Vegas meeting room on a pleasant morning in May, residents of Sin City waited their turn to address the Clark County Board of Commissioners. A man rarely known by his government name, William Drayton Jr., walked to the front of the room to make his appeal for the women on the U.S. Olympic hockey team.The scene was both serious and strange — after all, this was Vegas and a member of the Satanic temple with black devil horns affixed to the top of his head was waiting for his turn on the microphone. Even so, here was a proud “girl dad” trying to make good on his pledge to give the gold-medal-winning hockey team a proper celebration after they had become the president’s punchline back in February.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHere was a man standing up for women.Then, he shined the spotlight on himself.“I decided to bring them all here to fabulous Las Vegas. Why? Because there’s no better city for me to have these girls celebrate their winnings than Las Vegas,” rapper and hype man Flavor Flav said, in explaining ‘Flavor Flav’s SHE Weekend’ scheduled for July 16-19.“And plus when a lot of people come to Vegas, they think of Flav,” Flavor Flav continued, shrugging his arms and smiling. “So, everybody said I should run for mayor. I might be y’all next mayor! I’m just joking, I’m just joking!”In the front row, the devil didn’t laugh. Was this hell? No, just another day when women are pushed to the background — even when they merit to be the stars of the show.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementFlavor Flav wants to honor the U.S. Women’s hockey team that captured the program’s third overall gold. They deserve it. However, this weekend is the vision of a man who promotes himself as much as he does his causes, and a man with a rap sheet of violence against women. So, are women’s sports so starved for male advocacy that they’ll take anybody? They’ll celebrate anyone who celebrates them, even if the support comes as second billing?On the surface, the idea of a SHE Weekend — excuse me, “Flavor Flav’s SHE Weekend” — feels beautiful and benevolent. A wrong made right. The website promoting the event claims that more than 100 athletes from the Winter Games, including members of the women’s bobsled and skeleton teams, will be honored. There’s a parade down Las Vegas Boulevard planned for Thursday night, and the women will receive ceremonial keys to the Strip. Also, Flavor Flav promised to send the entire hockey team to the ESPYs, glam and wardrobe included.“Let’s gooooo, baybeeeee!” he whooped in an Instagram video that directly addressed the team’s star, Hilary Knight. “I’ll see you in Vegas!”To understand how a 67-year-old emcee and the captain of Team USA became social media besties, we have to go back to the genesis of this weekend.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementIn February, the women clinched gold. In that final game, the team drew an average of 5.3 mi