Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam has joined those condemning Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s comments at the Benedictine College commencement address.
“While I have your attention,” Vedder said at a show in Las Vegas, “Can we please raise our voices, clap our hands, and show our appreciation for the first group to be on the stage tonight, Deep Sea Diver?
“That’s some good men and good women making up a great band. The singer, Jessica, and the keyboard player, Patti, they must not have believed that ‘diabolical lie’ that women should take pride in taking a back seat to their man.”
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Vedder continued: “You see the kicker and he doesn’t have the pads because he doesn’t tackle anybody or get tackled.
“But he started telling men to puff up your chest and be more masculine and you don’t lose your masculinity.
“The irony was that when he was saying that, he looked like such an expletive-expletive. There’s nothing more masculine than a strong man supporting a strong woman.”
Eddie Vedder just called out Harrison Butker and called him the ‘P’ word here in Vegas
‘There’s nothing more masculine than a strong man supporting a strong woman,’ he said.@PearlJam pic.twitter.com/8ABLNW3ON0
— Adam Zagoria (@AdamZagoria) May 19, 2024
The Change.org petition demanding the Chiefs release their kicker has more than 216,000 signatures as of this writing.