IRL Acquaintance Homophobic, Misogynist, Racist, and Ignorant!
I have mod permission to post these--they're from a (locked) post on my personal journal. I'm posting quotes mostly with little context, but if you'd like context, please let me know and I'll add it in. I think they speak for themselves.
Captain Religion is a Jehovah's Witness (this is relevant) who is in two of my classes. He is also a secondary ed minor, English major. At any rate, over the last three semesters, we've had several classes together, and are fairly well acquainted.
These are his quotes (taken out of context, yes, but the context is something you can probably infer in most cases).
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"But women NEED to dress more conservatively than men do, because they're INHERENTLY more sexual. I mean, a woman's chest is more sexually attractive to most people than a man's chest. Even homosexuals like to look at women's chests."
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(Same conversation) "Men can't control themselves, so women have to make sure they don't tempt men."
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"You say you hate babies but you love your nieces? I think you're probably just saying that. That you hate them I mean. You really love them. When you marry your boyfriend, you'll want one." (I think next time we talk, I'll mention our girlfriend.)
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(To the professor, who knows CS Lewis and his works inside out) "No, the Telmarines [in Chronicles of Narnia] aren't at ALL Muslim. They're not supposed to be like, Muslims." (The Telmarines are portrayed as dark-skinned, monotheistic, warlike people who wear turbans and are known for their animal husbandry, especially with well-bred horses. I'm not saying how CS Lewis intended them to appear, but as far as him denying the culture after which they seem to have been modeled, he couldn't back up his answer with examples from the books.)
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(In class discussion about teaching students morality without imposing ours on them) "Thirteen-year-olds don't understand enough to have their own opinions, they're just repeating what people say." (He maintained this and tried to argue it against...the rest of the class and the professor. I'd normally be pretty impressed by someone standing his/her ground against that sort of pressure, but his opinion itself is so moronic and obtuse that I just can't even.)
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(Same class discussion as above, onto the subject of teaching sexuality/homosexuality/acceptance of homosexuality) "But homosexual marriages aren't real marriages anyhow."
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(Same discussion) "It's not like they can be devoted or good parents or anything." (Just to throw this out there, there is a woman in our class who is married to a woman and they have two...adopted daughters? Two kids, I know, I THINK she said they're daughters and adopted. When she began to defend her wife and her kids, he threw out the old "well that's just my opinion and I'm entitled to it" chestnut. She walked out that night and now won't participate in a discussion with him.)
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(He identified himself as Dominican, I am Irish/German) "Aww, it's cute when you try to speak Spanish. I love it when white girls speak Spanish cuz they always blush and are all self-conscious." (Hey, well, maybe that's because YOU ARE A CONDESCENDING ASSHAT to them!! I KNOW THAT'S WHAT MADE ME MOST SELF-CONSCIOUS ABOUT MY SPANISH-SPEAKING JUST NOW.)
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"Those guys on the subway [who give out Chick Tracts and proselytize] don't know what they're talking about. They're using Leviticus to justify thinking homosexuality is a sin. That's wrong, Leviticus is laws for the priests. There are other places in the Bible that say homosexuality is wrong. I, for one, don't believe that you can truly in your heart love someone of the same gender as you." (Conflating sex and gender, yeah...though he's right about the laws in Leviticus, for what it's worth?)
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"I always try to be respectful of other people's beliefs, even if I know they're wrong because I believe differently and I have God on my side." (AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
Fin.
(Let me know if those're too many tags...I went a little crazy. I like tags.)
Captain Religion is a Jehovah's Witness (this is relevant) who is in two of my classes. He is also a secondary ed minor, English major. At any rate, over the last three semesters, we've had several classes together, and are fairly well acquainted.
These are his quotes (taken out of context, yes, but the context is something you can probably infer in most cases).
****
"But women NEED to dress more conservatively than men do, because they're INHERENTLY more sexual. I mean, a woman's chest is more sexually attractive to most people than a man's chest. Even homosexuals like to look at women's chests."
****
(Same conversation) "Men can't control themselves, so women have to make sure they don't tempt men."
****
"You say you hate babies but you love your nieces? I think you're probably just saying that. That you hate them I mean. You really love them. When you marry your boyfriend, you'll want one." (I think next time we talk, I'll mention our girlfriend.)
****
(To the professor, who knows CS Lewis and his works inside out) "No, the Telmarines [in Chronicles of Narnia] aren't at ALL Muslim. They're not supposed to be like, Muslims." (The Telmarines are portrayed as dark-skinned, monotheistic, warlike people who wear turbans and are known for their animal husbandry, especially with well-bred horses. I'm not saying how CS Lewis intended them to appear, but as far as him denying the culture after which they seem to have been modeled, he couldn't back up his answer with examples from the books.)
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(In class discussion about teaching students morality without imposing ours on them) "Thirteen-year-olds don't understand enough to have their own opinions, they're just repeating what people say." (He maintained this and tried to argue it against...the rest of the class and the professor. I'd normally be pretty impressed by someone standing his/her ground against that sort of pressure, but his opinion itself is so moronic and obtuse that I just can't even.)
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(Same class discussion as above, onto the subject of teaching sexuality/homosexuality/acceptance of homosexuality) "But homosexual marriages aren't real marriages anyhow."
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(Same discussion) "It's not like they can be devoted or good parents or anything." (Just to throw this out there, there is a woman in our class who is married to a woman and they have two...adopted daughters? Two kids, I know, I THINK she said they're daughters and adopted. When she began to defend her wife and her kids, he threw out the old "well that's just my opinion and I'm entitled to it" chestnut. She walked out that night and now won't participate in a discussion with him.)
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(He identified himself as Dominican, I am Irish/German) "Aww, it's cute when you try to speak Spanish. I love it when white girls speak Spanish cuz they always blush and are all self-conscious." (Hey, well, maybe that's because YOU ARE A CONDESCENDING ASSHAT to them!! I KNOW THAT'S WHAT MADE ME MOST SELF-CONSCIOUS ABOUT MY SPANISH-SPEAKING JUST NOW.)
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"Those guys on the subway [who give out Chick Tracts and proselytize] don't know what they're talking about. They're using Leviticus to justify thinking homosexuality is a sin. That's wrong, Leviticus is laws for the priests. There are other places in the Bible that say homosexuality is wrong. I, for one, don't believe that you can truly in your heart love someone of the same gender as you." (Conflating sex and gender, yeah...though he's right about the laws in Leviticus, for what it's worth?)
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"I always try to be respectful of other people's beliefs, even if I know they're wrong because I believe differently and I have God on my side." (AAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
Fin.
(Let me know if those're too many tags...I went a little crazy. I like tags.)