Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gave a wildly misogynistic commencement address

The nice thing about Taylor Swift’s relationship with Travis Kelce is that the world was introduced to the Kelce family, all of whom seem like good people. The bad thing about TNT is that now all of Travis’s Kansas City Chiefs teammates are getting a lot of attention too, and some of these motherf–kers are not ready for primetime. Take, for example, Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker. Butker gave the commencement speech at Benedictine College’s graduation on May 11th. For days, clips of the commencement have been going viral. That man stood in front of new graduates and told women to stay in the kitchen and have babies, and he told the men to defend their masculinity. He was also homophobic. He’s 28 years old and he sounds like someone who has been radicalized by tradwife content and Fox News.

“It is safe to say that over the years, I have gained quite the reputation for speaking my mind,” Harrison Butker began in his address. The NFL player started by mentioning how this year’s graduates started college at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, but said that, “while COVID might have played a large role throughout your formative years, it is not unique,” and took aim at “bad policies and poor leadership” that he says “have negatively impacted major life issues.”

“Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for degenerative cultural values in media all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder.”

During the 20-minute speech, Butker quoted a lyric written by Taylor Swift, referring to her through her boyfriend Travis Kelce by calling her his “teammate’s girlfriend.”

“As my teammate’s girlfriend says, ‘familiarity breeds contempt,’ ” Butker said. Swift, 34, sings the line in her song, “Bejeweled” on her 2022 album, Midnights.

The Chiefs kicker then went on to address the female graduates in the room directly.

“For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment,” he began. “I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you…. Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabelle, would be the first to say her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.”

He said that he is “beyond blessed” because Isabelle “would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all: Homemaker. Isabelle’s dream of having a career might not have come true, but if you ask her today if she has any regrets on her decision, she would laugh out loud without hesitation, and say, ‘Hey, no.’”

Later, he addressed the male graduates directly, advising them to “be unapologetic in your masculinity,” and to “fight against the cultural emasculation of men,” in his speech.

“To the gentlemen here today, part of what plagues our society is this lie that has been told to you that men are not necessary in the home or our communities,” Butker said. “As men, we set the tone of the culture, and when that is absent, disorder, dysfunction and chaos set in. This absence of men in the home is what plays a large role in the violence we see all around the nation.”

Elsewhere in his speech, Butker took aim at the LGBTQ community, calling their pride “deadly sins.”

[From People]

I live in a very Southern Baptist area and while people around here hold similar opinions, they would be shocked to hear this kind of sh-t at a college graduation. This isn’t a segment on Fox News, this isn’t the A-block on Sean Hannity’s show. This is a 28 year old – someone who was born in 1995!!!! – telling young female college graduates to not have careers, to find a man and start popping out babies. Also, this is a big tell: “embrace one of the most important titles of all: Homemaker. Isabelle’s dream of having a career might not have come true…” “Homemaker and mother” are jobs, they are careers, but this misogynist douche can’t even keep up. He thinks that just because his wife is doing unpaid labor, it’s not a career or a job.

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— Kim Wexler’s Ponytail ???? (@MadisonKittay) May 14, 2024

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