The Harrison Butker Thing Is Mostly A Sign That We Need To Unclench Our Collective Buttocks

This really isn’t as bad a situation as some people are making it.

If you have not seen 10 million hot takes on this already, basically Harrison Butker is the kicker for the three-time World Champion (“world” for a sport just played in America is LOL) Kansas City Chiefs. He gave a commencement speech at some small Catholic/Christian college and he basically said women should aspire to motherhood and domestic bliss. This was a perfect dividing line down left/right ideology, because the right is always on the lookout for a prominent person arguing for a return to 1954 gender norms, and the left is always looking for something to be pissed off about. The fact that Butker plays for the same team as Taylor Swift’s boyfriend is a nice little cherry on top of all this shit.

If you want to see clips from the speech and some hot takes:

This one is relatively easy to parse out. Above all else, and I mean all else, you need to take context into…