Taylor Swift went viral for a reaction to her husband, Kansas City Chiefs TE Travis Kelce’s, performance in his latest game, but a lot of the responses online have been negative.
“Taylor Swift is getting dragged online right now for supporting her husband, cheering for her husband, being proud of her husband,” conservative commentator Riley Gaines explained in an Instagram video.
She showed some of the comments, which criticize Swift’s “high-school” energy and marriage. Others said she was making the moment about herself.
“I hope she screams this way for the entirety of their hopefully long-lasting, very fruitful marriage,” Gaines said. “And are we really going to act like a high school football game is the same as a Kansas City Chiefs games?”
Gaines pointed out that men want this kind of support from their wives, and she believes Kelce is happy to have it. However, it’s a trend to bash husbands online. So perhaps seeing someone so openly supporting her husband has become “weird or cringy.”
“Can we just normalize liking our spouse? Liking our wives and husbands?” Gaines asked.
After the game, Kelce responded to some of the content online.
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“Just doing my deed as a husband. Listen, man. Proud wife, baby,” he said. “Gotta make my girl proud.”
Radio host Glenn Beck said it was a tremendously good thing that many people saw Swift do this.
“Being praised for your strengths by somebody who loves you is rocket fuel to us [men]. Women set the standard that men naturally want to live up to. And last night, Taylor Swift set an amazingly important standard for women,” he wrote.
After the last game, Swift also supported Kelce online when a viewer called him “washed.” She tweeted back, “That man is my husband, and he also has the longest reception by a tight end this season. So check yourself before you wreck yourself 💅”
Gaines also recently defended actress Millie Bobby Brown, who faced backlash for adopting.
“Who would be mad about this?” Gaines said. “Last year they adopted a daughter and this week, they adopted their second child…They’re loving them and changing the trajectory of their lives, and the internet is mad about it.”
She applauded Brown for not choosing surrogacy. Brown and her husband, Jake Bon Jovi, have the means and love to care for children, and adoption is a thing that should be praised, not hated.
“I’m really happy for them…I wish them all the best with their family,” Gaines said.
Gaines is clearly tired of people sticking their noses into others’ wholesome business. The world would be a better place if more time was spent celebrating love, marriage and the joy of welcoming children into a family.
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