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Travis Kelce FIERY RESPONSE To Teammate Targeting Taylor Swift in CONTROVERSIAL Speech
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Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker raised eyebrows while giving a commencement address at Benedictine College – and even dragged his teammate Travis Kelce’s girlfriend Taylor Swift into it.
Butler, who has made his conservative Catholic beliefs well known, began his address by attacking “dangerous gender ideologies,” referencing Pride month. He also shared his opinion on working women and President Biden’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis.
As for Swift, he referenced a lyric from her song “Bejeweled.” “As my teammate’s girlfriend says, ‘familiarity breeds contempt,’” Butker said, referencing Travis Kelce.
Plenty found this ironic and disrespectful to bring up Swift, considering right before this, he said that women’s “most important title” should be “homemaker.”
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“I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolic lies told to you,” Butker said. “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.”