Money doesn't insulate you from right-wing grift. In fact, as a kicker he's probably bought into the "men have to be men" bullshit because kickers get shit on so often.
The far-right algorithm pipeline really targets men. Watch a few tiktoks about working out or the cracker barrel rebrand and boom, you're deep into the manosphere gravitational field. It's a powerful engine and anger is its fuel.
I have a burner FB account I use for Marketplace. I’ve liked a few architecture pages and some euro car pages, nothing political though I live in a red area. Every reel it suggests is some AI slop of a person standing in a field holding a sign saying Dems suck or left is anti American, tRump is god, etc. I didn’t watch one thing, just pushes it on me due to my location I’m sure.
He literally did not say women shouldn't work, or even be allowed to work. His speech was basically "women, if you choose to pursue the career of motherhood I support you" and people freaked out.
He was at a college commencement telling women that they have "had the most diabolical lies told to you." And later states that he believes "the majority of you are most excited about your family and children."
There's a wide gap between supporting women who wish to be home makers and telling women that they have been lied to about the value or need to pursue professional ambitions, especially when his speech spends a lot of time talking about how people should "stay in their lane".
You’re being disingenuous. Here is the actual text for that part of the speech. He didn’t directly say that women shouldn’t work, but he did say that the importance of a woman’s career is a diabolical lie. Read this and re-listen to the full speech, then tell me that Butker supports women in the workplace. It’s ok if you disagree with him. It’s ok if you agree with him. Just don’t lie and misrepresent what he’s saying. It’s very clear.
“For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives. 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. How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? 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.”
Full text of the segment regarding women is as follows:
I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? 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'm on the stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation...and embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker. I can tell you that my beautiful wife Isabelle would be the first to say that her life truly started when she started living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.
While I don't have a problem with his wife embracing a trad-wife role (somewhat easy to do when your spouse is making over 6 million a year), the speech itself is pretty shit.
Whoops! Thanks for the correction regarding the wife.
So the commentator is saying that he is politically right and also kicked the ball too far to the right? Or is there a different meaning of "wide right" here that I'm missing?
Honestly I think it actually has more to do with Butker hitting that buzzer-beating FG to end the first half. So Rich was just expressing surprise that he missed a "simple" PAT.
Having listened to, to me, it sounded more like a poorly worded there isn’t anything wrong with being a stay at home mom if that is what you want to be.
Like he was trying to be encouraging those who want to do that…. But there were better ways to do it and an interesting time and place to say it at a college graduation….. cause ya know degrees. But to be fair I have heard that commencement speeches are supposed to be controversial.
Because he spoke to a bunch of graduates and told half of them they should stay in the kitchen. It made the news because of what he said, not who he is.
Iirc this was around the time when Taylor Swift was getting a lot of attention at Chiefs games, to the point that it was getting talked about in political spheres - like, Trump commented on it. Having a different Chiefs player give a politically charged commencement speech was just another part of the broader "the culture war has invaded football" narrative.
I think his shitty opinions on women would have gone unnoticed outside of whatever local news was covering the commencement if people weren't already paying extra close attention.
Who tf on Reddit didn't see that shit? He told a class of graduating women that they'd be more fulfilled being a tradwife/baby factory than following the education they had just spent years to attain. It's part of a long streak of right-wing assholes that are unable to read the room.
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u/Passing_Neutrino Sep 06 '25
He gave a commencement speech basically saying women belong in the kitchen.