The kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, Harrison Butker gave a commencement speech at Kansas’ Benedictine College. I may be mistaken but I thought a commencement speech, at a graduation, is about recognizing the fact these students finished what they started and were moving onto the next chapter of their lives. That is not what Butker did. Instead he used it as a platform to express some of his personal religious and political views. He has a right to those views. He has a right to express those views. If he thinks a woman’s role in society is to be a wife, stay at home and raise children that is his right. What I have a problem with is that fact that he said those things to a group of people that were just starting out pursuing their careers. He basically said women should not be looking for careers, they should be looking for husbands. He has the right to his opinion but maybe he wasn’t the best choice to be expressing it at a commencement speech. It is a popular view for some...
Not a Democrat or Republican. Not Liberal and not Conservative. I am an Independent American: Follow me on Bluesky, I-Could-Be-Wrong, Written by David Pederson