Harrison Butker should have been hauled off of that stage the minute he started with that misogynistic rant at the Benedictine College commencement. Apologies should have happened immediately. Instead, the college is silent, Butker is likely basking in his privilege, and students are left dealing with the mess Butker and the college left for them to clean up. In addition to the misogynistic rant from Butker, leaving students to deal alone with this situation is typically misogynist behavior from both Butker and the college. It’s an insult to injury.
Telling the female part of a graduating class that all the effort and money they spent getting their degree and all their life ambitions should be canned for (or secondary to) domestic servitude and becoming breeding livestock is unacceptable. It is as intolerable as parents, churches, doctors, and politicians telling women and girls they should or have to do these things and that their ambitions and accomplishments are secondary or don't matter at all. Worse, passing legislation to force pregnancy and childbirth, no matter what the circumstance; staying in harmful or abusive marriages, no matter what the circumstance -- as if women are just property. These attitudes are precisely the crap I fought against all my life. I knew early on (remember my dear Mom telling me): "It's YOUR life."
And that is what those women should have been told: "It's YOUR life." That prick was way out of line. If we don't call this stuff out, if there are no consequences and pushback, and if we don't tell them to stay in their damn lane, this crap will continue for more generations. And what a shame. What a goddamned shame. And speaking of 'God,' what deity worth worshipping would say, insinuate, believe, or teach that is the purpose of half the human population on Earth? None that I want anything to do with, for sure. Whether God said such things as Butker and other men claim God said or men interpret God's alleged words as they want to hear them is up for debate. I lean heavily toward the latter, though, since the world's major religions are subject only to patriarchal interpretation. It is a spirit-crushing meat grinder that needs to end. If I wanted to have any relationship with God, I'd have to first get around all that. It's a hell of a mountain range to climb to see if a God is worth having a relationship with on the other side.
These men are obstacles to, not interpreters of God. How dare they believe they have any right to that or girls' or women's bodies, dreams, spirits, lives, careers, and ambitions? Who the hell do they think they are?
That college is on the wrong side of this, and Butker (how apropos a name for this prick) is as well. His
mother is an accomplished career woman. I wonder what he thinks of her? And I wonder what she thinks of him? I swear if he were my son, I'd disown him. And I'd ensure he knew precisely why.
ENOUGH!