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Telling women at their graduation ceremony celebrating their recent achievements that their hard work was basically pointless is the crux of the outrage. Plus, these days even women who want to be SAHMs generally can't due to economic reasons. My sister would prefer to not work and raise a family and she's coping with the fact this isn't going to be realistic for her. Then girls like her who are doing the best they can in hard times are shit on by this dude. It's offensive.
I think the economic obliviousness is much more offensive than suggesting that having a family is more fulfilling than a career.
I mean I'm more personally offended at the timing of telling girls who worked their ass off for four years straight that their achievements are pointless / worthless. Made even worse by him gleefully quoting Taylor Swift at the very beginning.
It also ignores the fact that in order for women to be childless, their male partner has to also choose to be childless. But I don't see demands for men to adopt fatherhood even if they're equally to blame. I haven't been on tinder for a while, but when I was there the vast majority of dudes had "no child / don't want them" as listed in their bio. Bad for me because I personally would like to have kids someday. Even with that in mind, I make more money than my boyfriend so if anyone were to stay at home it would make more sense for it to be him. I'm skeptical we could afford that unless the economy magically changes over night though. So odds are we will both be working. At least we live in the same town as our parents though so they can take up the slack. A lot of our other friends didn't have the luxury to stay in their home town though so even that isn't an option for most people.
The conservative movement routinely bashes deadbeat dads. Liberals don't care about that, because that's not their prerogative.
worked their ass off for four years
You have much more faith in our universities than you should.
Keep in mind, even through all of this, you can still be a professional and a mother. My mom's an accountant. My cousin's wife is a nurse. They have 3 children. I'll agree that he's economically tone deaf, but telling people they should have children isn't wrong. It's also a Catholic university. Catholicism (like many other religions) encourages reproduction. If you're outraged at what he said, that really should be directed towards the millennium old institution of the Catholic Church.