In an op-ed published last week on Vox,
former NFL player Chris Kluwe schooled Donald Trump on what is said
in the locker room.
Trump, the GOP presidential nominee,
has repeatedly dismissed comments he made about sexually harassing
women in a leaked audio as “locker room talk.”
In his letter, Kluwe, a vocal supporter
of LGBT rights, told Trump that he's “wrong, and only the type of
wrong an over-tanned ham hock like yourself can accomplish,
plummeting past the morass of gross incivility into the abyss of
depraved sociopathy.”
“How do I know this? Simple. I was in
an NFL locker room for eight years, the very definition of the macho,
alpha male environment you're so feebly trying to evoke to protect
yourself, and not once did anyone approach your breathtaking depths
of arrogant imbecility,” Kluwe
wrote. “Oh, sure, we had some dumb guys, and some guys 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 years with a guy who later
turned out to be a serial rapist. Even he never talked like that.”
Kluwe said that players talk about
families, travel, money, jokes and women. “[B]ut never have I
heard anyone use your particularly disgusting brand of sadism that
refers to women as objects and not people,” he said.
“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,” Kluwe concluded.
(Related: NFL's
Chris Kluwe says he was fired over his support for gay marriage.)