Candace Owens has branded Taylor Swift a “radical feminist” as she responded to Jason Kelce’s social media comments with regards to Harrison Butker’s recent commencement speech.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday, conservative commentator Owens took the pointed swipe at Swift while addressing Kelce, whose brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, is in a high-profile relationship with the pop star. The comments came about due to their opposing views on Butker’s speech.

On May 11, devout Catholic Butker spoke at Kansas’ Benedictine College where he espoused a range of socially conservative views. The Kansas City Chiefs kicker said a woman’s most important title is “homemaker,” and referred to LGBTQ+ Pride Month as an example of “deadly sins.” The speech was met with a strong backlash and the NFL stated that Butker’s “views are not those of the NFL as an organization.”

While Jason Kelce defended some of Butker’s comments during a May 24 episode of his and his brother’s New Heights podcast, he insisted some parts of his speech “are not things that I align myself with.”

The retired NFL star later came to his wife Kylie Kelce’s defense after a person on X called her a “homemaker whose home is a mess,” adding: “Sorry, but it is dirty and messy on television. Seems you’re a bit hypocritical. Y’all are going to be left with nothing but Swifties. You just ruined your gig. It’s a shame.”

Responding, Jason Kelce wrote: “I don’t think of Kylie as a homemaker, I think of her as my wife. I think of her as a mother. She has an occupation, as do I, and we keep our house the best we can. Our marriage is a partnership, we are equals who are figuring it out on the daily.

“The only expectation is that we love each other, support one another, and are committed to our family, that comes first. We both raise our kids, we both work, We both keep our home. It is both our faults it is messy, but such is life with three young children, busy schedules, and neither of us being neat freaks. She also makes a mean sandwhich [sic].”

He went on to clarify that he doesn’t “downplay” the role of a homemaker, adding: “If being a homemaker works for some, and that’s what they want, then hell yeah, that’s awesome, more power to you, but that is not our family dynamic.”

Owens waded into the conversation, writing: “Your wife is in fact homemaker, you just don’t like the label because you’ve been brainwashed by radical feminists (like the one your brother is dating) to believe it’s a dirty word that implies inequality. It doesn’t.”

Candace Owens has branded Taylor Swift a “radical feminist” as she responded to Jason Kelce’s social media comments with regards to Harrison Butker’s recent commencement speech.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday, conservative commentator Owens took the pointed swipe at Swift while addressing Kelce, whose brother, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, is in a high-profile relationship with the pop star. The comments came about due to their opposing views on Butker’s speech.

On May 11, devout Catholic Butker spoke at Kansas’ Benedictine College where he espoused a range of socially conservative views. The Kansas City Chiefs kicker said a woman’s most important title is “homemaker,” and referred to LGBTQ+ Pride Month as an example of “deadly sins.” The speech was met with a strong backlash and the NFL stated that Butker’s “views are not those of the NFL as an organization.”

While Jason Kelce defended some of Butker’s comments during a May 24 episode of his and his brother’s New Heights podcast, he insisted some parts of his speech “are not things that I align myself with.”

Candace Owens and Taylor Swift
Candace Owens (left) and Taylor Swift (right). Owens branded Swift a “radical feminist” as she waded into an online conversation. Jason Davis/Getty Images;/Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The Recording Academy
The retired NFL star later came to his wife Kylie Kelce’s defense after a person on X called her a “homemaker whose home is a mess,” adding: “Sorry, but it is dirty and messy on television. Seems you’re a bit hypocritical. Y’all are going to be left with nothing but Swifties. You just ruined your gig. It’s a shame.”

Responding, Jason Kelce wrote: “I don’t think of Kylie as a homemaker, I think of her as my wife. I think of her as a mother. She has an occupation, as do I, and we keep our house the best we can. Our marriage is a partnership, we are equals who are figuring it out on the daily.

“The only expectation is that we love each other, support one another, and are committed to our family, that comes first. We both raise our kids, we both work, We both keep our home. It is both our faults it is messy, but such is life with three young children, busy schedules, and neither of us being neat freaks. She also makes a mean sandwhich [sic].”

He went on to clarify that he doesn’t “downplay” the role of a homemaker, adding: “If being a homemaker works for some, and that’s what they want, then hell yeah, that’s awesome, more power to you, but that is not our family dynamic.”

Owens waded into the conversation, writing: “Your wife is in fact homemaker, you just don’t like the label because you’ve been brainwashed by radical feminists (like the one your brother is dating) to believe it’s a dirty word that implies inequality. It doesn’t.”

“Men and women are different,” added the former Daily Wire personality, who recently announced that she had converted to Catholicism. “Those differences work together to form a happy family. The Bible has the answers, not pop stars and their journalists. Hope this helps.”

Newsweek has contacted representatives of Swift, Jason Kelce, and Owens via email for comment.

Swift spoke about her views on feminism in a 2014 interview with The Guardian, during which she credited Girls star Lena Dunham with helping shape her stance.

“As a teenager, I didn’t understand that saying you’re a feminist is just saying that you hope women and men will have equal rights and equal opportunities,” she told the newspaper. “What it seemed to me, the way it was phrased in culture, society, was that you hate men. And now, I think a lot of girls have had a feminist awakening because they understand what the word mean

“For so long it’s been made to seem like something where you’d picket against the opposite sex, whereas it’s not about that at all. Becoming friends with Lena—without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for—has made me realize that I’ve been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so.”

On the New Heights podcast, Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce directly addressed Butker’s comments. Jason Kelce explained that Kylie Kelce was “a little bit frustrated with some of the comments,” and that “if my daughters listen to anybody tell them what to do, that they should be homemakers, then I’ve failed as a dad.”

Travis Kelce—who has been Butker’s teammate since 2017—said he does not agree with “the majority” of what the kicker said.

“When it comes down to [Butker’s] views and what he said at [Benedictine’s] commencement speech, those are his. I can’t say I agree with the majority of it or just about any of it outside of just him loving his family and his kids. And I don’t think that I should judge him by his views, especially his religious views, of how to go about life, that’s just not who I am,” he explained.

Butker spoke publicly about the controversy surrounding his speech for the first time last Friday evening at a Courage Under Fire gala in Nashville, Tennessee.

“If it wasn’t clear that the timeless Catholic values are hated by many, it is now,” he said. “Over the past few days, my beliefs, or what people think I believe, have been the focus of countless discussions around the globe.”

Butker said that since speaking on issues away from football he has become “more polarizing,” adding: “It’s a decision I’ve consciously made, and one I do not regret at all.”