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Post by katlady on May 15, 2024 15:34:45 GMT
Chiefs kicker, Harrison Butker, gave a graduation speech at a conservative Catholic college. He said in the speech that while some of you women will have successful careers, your most important title should be “housewife”. Most of you can’t wait to be wives and mothers. I don’t agree with anything he said in his entire speech, he touched on other hot political topics, but isn’t a graduation speech supposed to encourage young adults to go out into the world and work hard and overcome whatever obstacles are in your way to reach their dream? Yes, there are women who want to be housewives, but they don’t all feel that way and they have different dreams/goals. www.yahoo.com/sports/chiefs-kicker-harrison-butker-rails-193005260.html |
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Post by basketdiva on May 15, 2024 15:38:28 GMT
His speech was inappropriate in my opinion for the event. I'm sure the woman that were graduating didn't spend thousands of dollars to become a wife.
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Post by ellen on May 15, 2024 15:40:48 GMT
It would bug me if I was sitting through my daughter’s college graduation and had to listen to this. Knowing it is a conservative Catholic college probably made him feel like this message would be better received there. I would like to see young women pi$$ed off about how some conservative men view them. We’ve taken huge steps back in the rights of women and speeches like this can be a great reminder of what is on the line in the upcoming election.
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Post by mom on May 15, 2024 15:41:09 GMT
Eh. I don't think it was appropriate butI can't help with think the college knew what he would say and were ok with it.
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Post by mom on May 15, 2024 15:42:04 GMT
His speech was inappropriate in my opinion for the event. I'm sure the woman that were graduating didn't spend thousands of dollars to become a wife.Maybe but maybe not. Many women get degrees with absolutely no intention of using them. |
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Post by pinklady on May 15, 2024 15:42:41 GMT
I have a feeling he’s going to get a taste of fuck around and find out real soon.
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Post by Kerri W on May 15, 2024 15:51:59 GMT
Eh. I don't think it was appropriate butI can't help with think the college knew what he would say and were ok with it. I agree. I don't like it, but I think he knew his audience. |
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Post by basketdiva on May 15, 2024 15:55:32 GMT
His speech was inappropriate in my opinion for the event. I'm sure the woman that were graduating didn't spend thousands of dollars to become a wife.Maybe but maybe not. Many women get degrees with absolutely no intention of using them. Ridiculous to go into debt with no intention of using your education. |
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Post by mom on May 15, 2024 16:09:08 GMT
Maybe but maybe not. Many women get degrees with absolutely no intention of using them. Ridiculous to go into debt with no intention of using your education. Maybe they didn't go into debt for their education? I know when I got my degree I only did it so I would be able to provide for myself and my kids if I needed to, not that I ever planned on working. We tell women all.the.time to have backup plan. Its entirely possible to get a degree and not have debt. |
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Post by katlady on May 15, 2024 16:11:55 GMT
Maybe but maybe not. Many women get degrees with absolutely no intention of using them. Ridiculous to go into debt with no intention of using your education. . Not everyone comes out of college with debt. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on May 15, 2024 16:15:06 GMT
Yup, barefoot pregnant in the kitchen.. GOP propaganda... It is all in their great plan!!
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 15, 2024 16:18:39 GMT
Maybe but maybe not. Many women get degrees with absolutely no intention of using them. Ridiculous to go into debt with no intention of using your education. Exactly! I wouldn’t say “many” women do that these days. Back in the 50’s or 60’s people used to joke that women went to college just to get their “MRS. degree” but not today. Now I’m really curious what the tuition is at that school and how many people attending qualify for financial aid. (ETA: just looked online and it’s $34K per year for tuition and fees. So roughly $137K for a degree and that’s IF you graduate in 4 years.) I found that speech to be highly offensive. |
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Post by Bridget in MD on May 15, 2024 16:19:12 GMT
Chiefs kicker, Harrison Butker, gave a graduation speech at a conservative Catholic college. He said in the speech that while some of you women will have successful careers, your most important title should be “housewife”. Most of you can’t wait to be wives and mothers. I don’t agree with anything he said in his entire speech, he touched on other hot political topics, but isn’t a graduation speech supposed to encourage young adults to go out into the world and work hard and overcome whatever obstacles are in your way to reach their dream? Yes, there are women who want to be housewives, but they don’t all feel that way and they have different dreams/goals. www.yahoo.com/sports/chiefs-kicker-harrison-butker-rails-193005260.htmlI saw it last night and it made my blood boil. He reminded me of the senator who gave that speech from the Kitchen. And to see him all choked up over his wife, whatever. Then I saw a TT of Olivia Julianna, from TX (the one who was called a "thumb" by Gaetz I think?) who said that KC is playing both sides... they have travis kelce who is VERY left, pro vax and dating Taylor who is pretty pro woman, etc. Then they have this guy who will play to the conservative side. It would bug me if I was sitting through my daughter’s college graduation and had to listen to this. Knowing it is a conservative Catholic college probably made him feel like this message would be better received there. I would like to see young women pi$$ed off about how some conservative men view them. We’ve taken huge steps back in the rights of women and speeches like this van be a great reminder of what is on the line in the upcoming election. ^^^^ this exactly. Just bc they choose to go to a religious college doesn't mean that they are all looking for a ring. I wish they had all started to boo him or just freaking got up and left... but I am sure they were too docile and polite to do that. But I would love to see him get a taste of his own bullshit. |
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on May 15, 2024 16:20:57 GMT
His speech was inappropriate in my opinion for the event. I'm sure the woman that were graduating didn't spend thousands of dollars to become a wife. Ridiculous to go into debt with no intention of using your education. Not everyone comes out of college with debt. Also, an education is never ridiculous or wasted by becoming a wife. |
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Post by mellyw on May 15, 2024 16:21:53 GMT
Ridiculous to go into debt with no intention of using your education. Maybe they didn't go into debt for their education? I know when I got my degree I only did it so I would be able to provide for myself and my kids if I needed to, not that I ever planned on working. We tell women all.the.time to have backup plan. Its entirely possible to get a degree and not have debt. This was me to. My DH was active duty military for 22 years. We made the decision that me working didn’t go with our plans to travel as much as possible, his schedule was so unpredictable we took advantage of any time off he could get. Now that I’m older with multiple health issues, my DH is also 100% disabled from military service, I do not have one regret about how my life worked out. I saw the world when I was young and able and gave my DD the stability of one parent at home. I have several degrees not just as a backup (I also volunteered thru several military organizations that paid for classes to keep my skills up to date), but for the simple love of learning. Being a housewife doesn’t negate the need to be educated. I support women choosing what works best for them and their families Chiefs players speech I could do without. Gross patriarchy is never a good look |
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Post by River on May 15, 2024 16:30:38 GMT
I hate to tell him, but with the cost of living right now, it pretty much ensures that many households have to be dual income. So, some of the women that dream of being a "housewife", actually don't get the chance right out of the gate.
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Post by Bridget in MD on May 15, 2024 16:31:27 GMT
I didn't realize it when I heard the speech, but People is reporting he quoted Taylor Swift... wonder if that is going to fly like a lead balloon.
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.
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Post by katlady on May 15, 2024 16:40:29 GMT
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,' That is an old saying - "familiarity breeds contempt". Taylor Swift did not come up with that. |
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Post by nine on May 15, 2024 16:52:05 GMT
Here’s the ‘kicker’…
Harrison’s mom, Elizabeth Butker, is a graduate of Smith College with a degree in chemistry and a master’s in medical physics and is now a physicist at the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute
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Post by lucyg on May 15, 2024 17:01:33 GMT
I think he’s being ridiculous, but what else would you expect from a conservative religious college? And an education is never wasted. Especially on someone who’s raising the next generation. basketdiva, please rethink that attitude. |
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Post by The Great Carpezio on May 15, 2024 17:04:04 GMT
I know many women who have and some that are going to Catholic colleges. Most would not be OK with a speech like that, and as far as I know, the Catholic colleges in in MN are not substantially more liberal than others, but maybe they are?
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Post by lucyg on May 15, 2024 17:29:43 GMT
I know many women who have and some that are going to Catholic colleges. Most would not be OK with a speech like that, and as far as I know, the Catholic colleges in in MN are not substantially more liberal than others, but maybe they are? The Catholic colleges I'm familiar with here in California would not be on board with a speech like this. But I’m assuming he and this particular “conservative Catholic” college are on the same page. |
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Post by littlemama on May 15, 2024 17:35:03 GMT
Let's not forget that this asshole makes loads of money, so it is easy for his wife to be a...homemaker.
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Post by Bridget in MD on May 15, 2024 17:36:50 GMT
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,' That is an old saying - "familiarity breeds contempt". Taylor Swift did not come up with that. oh, i know, but since the dumbass thought he was appealing to the crowd, he had to throw in that TS said it LOL. |
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Post by edie3 on May 15, 2024 17:46:52 GMT
The kicker will enter the fifth and final year of his contract in 2024. For the 2024 NFL season, Harrison Butker will make $3,690,000.
Must be hard to have to rely on only one salary in his household.
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Post by casii on May 15, 2024 17:59:50 GMT
On TikTok, there are many men trolling reaction videos, so his speech has angered many women (and men) while emboldening men to harass women. Regardless of his immediate audience, he had to be aware this would inevitably reach a wider audience.
He wanted to provoke a reaction. He's getting it. Maybe he has political aspirations and hopes the GOP will embrace him like they did Tommy Tuberville.
If left up to me, he'd be out of a job and he'd be forced to walk through town naked, covered in ashes, to the chanting of "Shame" by Hannah Waddingham.
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Post by Bridget in MD on May 15, 2024 18:03:29 GMT
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Post by dawnnikol on May 15, 2024 18:37:52 GMT
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,' That is an old saying - "familiarity breeds contempt". Taylor Swift did not come up with that. Dude can probably only understand stuff that's hand fed to him, like his backwards notions of what is right and wrong. He's only quoting the song and attributing it to her "Bejeweled" song because he is trying so hard to stay relevant. I hope he pulls an Aaron_Conspiracy_Lover_Rodgers and starts off his season with a BANG. Apparently the Chiefs' IG is blowing up with people pissed about this whole thing, so they might have to step in. However, the owners won't get rid of him because they're just as fucking morally bankrupt as him. |
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on May 15, 2024 20:24:56 GMT
Here’s the ‘kicker’… Harrison’s mom, Elizabeth Butker, is a graduate of Smith College with a degree in chemistry and a master’s in medical physics and is now a physicist at the Department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute His mother must be soooo proud of that ridiculous speech.  Sounds like she needs to have a come to Jesus with that boy. |
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Post by katlady on May 15, 2024 20:29:08 GMT
He probably just provided Taylor Swift with material for a new song. 😂
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Sounds like she needs to have a come to Jesus with that boy.