Earlier this month, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker made some comments during a commencement speech that many believed were sexist against women as he suggested that a woman’s most important role is as a homemaker. Jason Kelce made it clear that he did not share these beliefs from Butker and mocked the kicker a little bit as a result.
During his speech, Harrison Butker brought up his wife, saying that “her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and a mother” as he praised her decision to “embrace one of the most important titles of all: homemaker.”
During the most recent episode of his New Heights podcast with his brother Travis Kelce, Jason Kelce addressed these comments, making it pretty clear that he did not agree with that portion of the speech, especially considering he has three daughters.
“I can listen to somebody talk and take great value in it, like when he’s talking about the importance of family, the importance of that a great mother can make, while also acknowledging that not everybody has to be a homemaker if that’s not what they want to do in life. When you’re listening to somebody, you take in things that you like, you listen to other things and you say, well I don’t [freaking] like that,” Kelce said.
He then mocked Butker a little bit with a joke he made about his wife and her role in the house.
“My wife, she was, I think, a little bit frustrated with some of the comments. Initially, I said listen, you’re going to need to go back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich. I’m listening to the game right now,” Kelce said, jokingly, mocking Butker’s beliefs that women are to be homemakers.
