re: Chief's Harrison Butker delivers an unforgettable commencement address

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The sisters of Mount St. Scholastica, who describe their group as a founding institution and sponsor of Benedictine College, just shared a statement about the professional football player's speech, saying his comments don't “represent the Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college that our founders envisioned and in which we have been so invested."

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If you read the complete statement from the Sisters, apparently they didn't like Butker telling the young women graduates of Benedictine College that being a homemaker is one of the most important titles a woman can hold, Butker didn't say it was the most important title, he said one of the most important titles a woman can hold.

What Butker was trying to convey to the young women graduates is to not let anyone tell you that you're not successful or vitally important to the fabric of society by making a decision to be a homemaker vs chasing and climbing the corporate ladder in the corporate rat race, Butker isn't wrong.

If a man can provide for a family and allow the woman to stay home with the children for nurturing and influence, something they would never receive from a daycare provider that's a win for society. Butker was giving an opinion based on lived experience, there's likely good data that would support Butker's opinion. Anecdotal evidence is certainly in Butker's favor, look at society today compared to society in the 50's-70's and then ask yourself why society has degraded so much from that period to the society of today and you will see the destruction of the nuclear family goes lockstep with the degradation of society, particularly the destruction of the black family, where +70% of black children are born out of wedlock, many of these black children are deprived of a positive male role model.

I guess this ^^^^ went over the Sister's heads.