Harrison Butker spent his hate-filled speech to the 2024 graduating class of Benedictine College telling women that he thinks they’ve been told “diabolical lies” about their futures — he “would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.”
It was a speech that, as Taylor Swift fans noted, made him seem like The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. And there’s an irony here that we need to note: Butker’s mother, Elizabeth Keller Butker MS, DABR, is a Clinical Medical Physicist in the department of Radiation Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine.
Many folks noted the irony in the face of his comments:
it’s probably worth mentioning that harrison butker’s mom is an accomplished physicist and not a woman who just “stayed at home” pic.twitter.com/84JclGxbfd
— Mason Mennenga (@masonmennenga) May 15, 2024
Harrison Butker with his medical physicist mom, a second generation cancer treatment specialist focusing in brachytherapy & Gamma Knife medical physics care.
But did her life even begin? She didn't lean into the vocation of homemaker that women are called for like her son said. pic.twitter.com/0MlusNlGJv
— AskAubry 🦝 (@ask_aubry) May 15, 2024
Not Harrison Butker's mom being a brilliant physicist for the past 36 years!!!! pic.twitter.com/jta8IxEHAa
— emily (@AaahhRealEmily) May 15, 2024