Last night at the ESPY Awards, tennis star Serena Williams took a pointed jab at Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker.
After her sister and fellow tennis star Venus Williams said, “Go ahead and enjoy women’s sports like you would any other sports, because they are sports,” Serena Williams chimed in, “Except you, Harrison Butker. We don’t need you.”
Butker attended the awards, which are hosted by ESPN.
After Serena Williams’ comment, “Elementary” star Quinta Brunson added, “At all. Like, ever.”
But while Butker’s remarks about the value of women who choose to be homemakers stirred plenty of controversy in the media, his view is hardly outside the mainstream. Half of women with children 18 and younger would prefer to stay home with their children than work outside the home, as I noted in this column originally published May 16.
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