In May, Kansas City Chiefs’ kicker Harrison Butker gave a wildly misogynistic commencement address at a college’s graduation ceremony. He told the young women at their graduation ceremony that they should be ashamed to have personal or professional aspirations outside of getting married and starting a family. He also took some homophobic swipes at the LGBTQ community, and basically sounded like a completely average Fox News culture warrior dipsh-t. People were like “wtf dude” and he was widely criticized and mocked. Serena Williams, Venus and Quinta Brunson even made an excellent joke about Butker at the ESPYs, and Butker whined about it in a public statement. He was so mad that three women spoke without his permission! Well, now that NFL training camp has started, Butker is obviously fielding a lot of questions from the sports media:

Harrison Butker is standing by the comments he made during his controversial Benedictine College commencement speech in May. The Kansas City Chiefs kicker, 29, spoke to the local media at training camp on Wednesday, telling reporters that his words came from “a place of love.”

After admitting that he “respected all the viewpoints” of people who spoke out about his speech — which suggested women should embrace the term “homemaker” — Butker explained, “In terms of what I said, I’ve prayed about it, and thought about it and I was really intentional behind what I said.”

Butker further told reporters that he talked about his speech with some of his teammates which led to “tons of conversations in the locker room.”

He said it also allowed the group to connect more and “understand each other.”

“I really believe if people knew me as a person, and understood that it was coming from a place of love, and not a place of trying to attract or put people down,” Butker added. “I only want the best for people, that’s what I was trying to say there. I think the people that were in that gymnasium all understood what I was saying.”

In his May speech — which has since been condemned by many celebrities and several advocacy organizations including GLAAD — Butker addressed the women in the graduating class, telling them they should aspire to be “homemakers,” wives and mothers.

“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,” he told the crowd at the time. He also called Pride Month one of “the deadly sins” and defined abortion, IVF, and surrogacy as products of “disorders.”

[From Page Six]

“In terms of what I said, I’ve prayed about it, and thought about it and I was really intentional behind what I said.” Yeah, I don’t disagree – he said that sh-t with his whole chest, he did not back down and he means what he said 100%. That was literally never in question. To Butker: we aren’t bothered by the idea that you said something you didn’t mean or understand. We’re bothered by the fact that you told young women to aspire to be nothing but homemakers at their college graduation. We’re bothered by what you said and stand by. He’s such a f–king douche. Has the right-wing media embraced him and offered him guest appearances yet? Since that was obviously the goal here.

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