Katy Perry re-edits Harrison Butker’s controversial commencement speech

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Katy Perry has re-edited Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s recent controversial commencement speech.Earlier this month, Butker delivered a controversial commencement speech during Benedictine College’s graduation ceremony, criticising working women and Pride in the process.

In the speech, Butker suggested that women should take on roles as housewives and homemakers rather than chase careers.Now, Perry has shared an edited version on her Instagram in honour of Pride month, which shows Butker celebrating the “ladies” in the audience who were graduating college, noting that they “should be proud of all that [they] have achieved to this point in [their] young lives”.“Fixed this for my girls, my graduates, and my gays – you can do anything, congratulations and happy pride,” she wrote.A post shared by KATY PERRY (@katyperry)Instead of including his initial comments about why women should be “homemakers,” the new version shows him describing all the success women could reach in their careers.

You can view it below.“How many of you are sitting here now, about to cross this stage, and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you’re going to get in your career?” he continued. “I would venture to guess the women here today are going to lead successful careers in the world.”Butker’s claims that women shouldn’t pursue a career, and instead become a “wife and mother” were also altered to the following: “I say all of this to you because I have seen it firsthand, how much happier someone can be supporting women and not saying that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.”The video ends with him celebrating diversity and Pride month.He added: “The road.