you're going to be the weak one, aren't you

I am the only woman in a Pitzer class and the teacher left to get coffee and told us to discuss the role historical events play in US culture, specifically violence against Native Americans. This older (late 60s, early 70s?) white man who is auditing the class starts describing in detail the gory, dehumanizing, humiliating acts of torture that were described in our reading for that day, and I cringed quietly. He looked at me and said that everything he was saying was in the reading. I said that I did do the reading, but it was still difficult to hear about because it’s so horrific. He replied, “So you’re going to be the weak one in this class, aren’t you?”