Chiefs Kicker Gets Major Backlash After Dissing Taylor Swift And Working Women

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker, who rarely misses on the field, fell flat on his face for dissing working women and Taylor Swift during a graduation speech at Benedictine College over the weekend. (Watch the video below.)

The backlash, like the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory in February, went into overtime.

The right-wing athlete, who also attacked abortion rights, homosexuality and all manner of “degenerate cultural values,” at one point zeroed in on the female graduates.

“I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical 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.”

He tearfully thanked his wife for embracing “one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.”

“Isabelle’s dream of having a career might not have come true,” he said, “but if you ask her today if she has any regrets on her decision, she would laugh out loud without hesitation, and say, ‘Hey, no.’”

His retrograde remarks on a day to celebrate an educational milestone went over as well as Charlie Brown trying to kick the football as Lucy held it.

“By implying a woman’s true fulfillment comes from not working and instead, supporting her husband and children (even if it means giving up her own dreams), he belies why he really wants women in the home,” Jo-Ann Finkelstein, Ph.D., the author of “Sexism & Sensibility,” told HuffPost on Wednesday. “It’s not because he’s thinking of the women’s