Congratulations, feminists — you are now indistinguishable from the chauvinists you once despised

Feminism has finally come around to the very idea that necessitated the movement in the first place — that women’s work in the home is worthless.

This inversion has been apparent for decades to anyone paying attention, but remarks made by Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker flushed out the last of the covert misogynists, male and female.

During his speech to graduates at the Benedictine College commencement ceremony on May 11, Butker beautifully articulated the truth that for women, their role as mothers will rightly outshine anything else they achieve.

“For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives. I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.”

Feminists practically burst into flames with fury, even as those of them who are mothers would surely (hopefully?) say that their children are the crowing glory of their lives.

Contrary to the hysteria, Butker wasn’t even saying work outside of the home has no value for women. Rather, he pointed out that motherhood is infinitely more so.

It’s a fact of life that’s obvious to those whose mothers were present in their lives and, in the most profound way of all, to those whose mothers were absent or somehow deficient.

This would not be controversial at all, except that modern feminists don’t value motherhood — especially when a woman forgoes a paycheck for the sake of it.

They’ve accepted the idea that any woman who won’t slave away in a cubicle because she’d rather care for her husband and children at home is somehow deficient and unworthy of respect.

Ironically, in bygone days when husbands would treat their homemaker wives like that, feminists believed it was the most outrageous offense against all females.

Now, they are the loudest voices of such derision.

Those who choose a life raising their children and using their gifts and talents in the home are seen as somehow lesser.

Feminists assert that achieving in business and making money just like men is the only way ever to be equal to them.

This is the most confounding aspect of this worldview because of course women can do what men do when it comes to making money.

But what women are uniquely equipped to do is the one thing men are physically, emotionally, and spiritually unable to do — mother a child.

Feminism was supposed to be about valuing women and giving them their rightful dignity and honor in the world.

It was supposed to be about choice, allowing a woman to be free to leave the home and join the rat race or stay home to raise her own children as she sees fit.

Instead, it has become a crusade to make sure every last woman spends her days on deadlines, meetings, spreadsheets, corporate ass-kissing, and all of the rest.

Modern feminism aspires to turn each woman out of her home and into a nondescript office building where she can become another cog in the machine — and all of this while a stranger gets to be the one to rock her baby to sleep and dry her toddler’s tears.

This is not how people who really appreciate and honor women would behave.

A true fight for women’s equality would spotlight the unique and sacred role they occupy in their families and the whole human race as proof of the profound contribution they make to the world.

What Butker said is not controversial for a healthy society that esteems women and the inimitable roles they play as wives and mothers.

Only those who see men’s contributions as superior to the gifts women uniquely provide can be outraged by that fact — and that’s exactly the mindset of the chauvinists our foremothers fought so hard against.

Well done, feminists.