This past weekend, as Pearl Jam performed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, frontman Eddie Vedder sounded off on Kansas City Chiefs player Harrison Butker’s controversial commencement speech. Butker has gotten heaps of backlash over his virulent address at Benedictine College last weekend, in which he shared his belief that women belong in the kitchen. In response, Vedder called the NFL kicker a “fucking pussy,” according to Variety.
As he introduced Pearl Jam’s gender-inclusive opening act, Deep Sea Diver, Vedder told the crowd, “The singer, Jessica, and the keyboard player, Patti, they must not have believed that ‘diabolical lie’ that women should take pride in taking a back seat to their man.”
“The irony was that when he was saying that, he looked like such a fucking pussy,” Vedder added.
