As the Kansas City Chiefs promote their 2024 season on social media, women are responding with jabs at restrictive gender roles. The response comes after Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker made his controversial commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, on May 11, when he encouraged women to trade in their career goals to get married, have children and be a homemaker. Many women on social media are sarcastically asking for permission to watch the games, requesting a man to read the promotional posts for them and outlining their role in the home as a fiery disagreement to what Butker said in his speech.
“Can you ask the man who kicks the football if watching sports is listed as an allowable activity in the rules of my vocation? I need him to explain what I should be doing with my time,” one person wrote on a Chiefs post revealing their 2024 schedule. “Will a man read this to me?” another penned on a separate Chiefs' post . “Sadly, since I was forced to disregard my college degree and serve His Holiness, my financial independence was stripped.
I cannot buy a jersey, order cable, or even watch the TV in the man cave. The last time I saw a Tv was in the labor and delivery ward," someone else wrote. “Do you take girl $ or does my dad need to pay for me since I’m unwed?” another user said on a preseason promo post .
“I can’t believe I’ve wasted 52 years religiously watching football when I could have been perfecting new recipes, washing my hu.