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<\/p>\nChris Kluwe Unloads on Trump, Explains What Really Goes on in the Locker Room<\/b><\/p>\n
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Former NFL player and LGBT rights activist Chris Kluwe eviscerated Donald Trump in a new op-ed.<\/p>\n
Kluwe went after the Republican presidential nominee for attempting to write-off his remarks about sexually assaulting women<\/a> as mere ‘locker room talk.’<\/p>\n Said Kluwe in his piece published on Vox,<\/a> “I was in an NFL locker room for eight years, the very definition of the macho, alpha male<\/a> environment you’re so feebly trying to evoke to protect yourself, and not once did anyone approach your breathtaking depths of arrogant imbecility.”<\/p>\n Kluwe added, “Oh, sure, we had some dumb guys<\/a>, and some guys<\/a> I wouldn’t want to hang out with on any sort of regular basis, but we never had anyone say anything as foul and demeaning as you did on that tape, and, hell, I played a couple<\/a> years with a guy<\/a> who later turned out to be a serial rapist. Even he never talked like that.”<\/p>\n Calling Trump “an over-tanned ham hock” who has plummeted “past the morass of gross incivility into the abyss of depraved sociopathy,” “a Hitler wannabe who can’t even string together a coherent statement on domestic policy”, and “a Russian-backed presidential candidate whose foreign policy agenda can best be described as ‘gross negligence mixed with a spicy dash of treason’”, Kluwe schooled Trump on what actually does get talked about in the locker room: family, travel, money and even some crude jokes–but never bragging about sexual assault.<\/p>\n Wrote Kluwe,<\/p>\n We talk about women<\/a> (and sex<\/a>!). We talk about wives, sisters, mothers, daughters, fans, and groupies. Most guys<\/a> respect women<\/a>, some guys<\/a> don’t, but never have I heard anyone use your particularly disgusting brand of sadism that refers to women<\/a> as objects and not people. Even the most debauched club-hopping party animal talks about women<\/a> more civilly than you. We don’t let<\/em> each other talk like that about women<\/a>, because it lessens our humanity, and even though we’re modern-day gladiators, we still hold ourselves accountable to the idea of basic human decency.<\/p>\n Kluwe addressed off-color remarks that do sometimes take place in locker rooms, saying,<\/p>\n We talk about jokes. Clean jokes, dirty jokes, jokes that are in between. Hell, I made a joke about Penn State that got me in trouble years later, because someone thought I was attacking the victims instead of the institution that allowed such depravity to happen. You know what I did? I apologized. I said I was sorry. I didn’t apologize with “if your feelings were hurt by it”; I didn’t try to deflect it by attacking someone else, or their spouse; I didn’t lie to an entire nation on live<\/a> TV and say, “Nope, that never happened.” I simply said, “I’m sorry, I made a mistake, I’m accountable, I’ll do better next time.”<\/p>\n Kluwe closed with some advice for the Donald:<\/p>\n The next time you want to claim that something is “locker room talk,” take a moment to recognize the fact that were you in an actual locker room, you would be universally reviled as a cancerous, egotistical train wreck of a disgrace that no team could possibly find the time to employ and, honestly, would never even have on their draft board to begin with.<\/p>\n I’ve been in locker rooms, Donald, and you’re the type of narcissistic, pants-soiling fecal eruption that just doesn’t belong. Even football players are smart enough to know that.<\/p>\n The post Chris Kluwe Unloads on Trump, Explains What Really Goes on in the Locker Room<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n