Not sure if this is feminism or Brexit.... it is both
Just been completely mansplained by my brother & then shouted down for disagreeing with him. Topic was international trade agreements, him going on and on about an article he had read & how the draconian prohibitive EU trade barriers were now coming down which meant he would be able to buy a certain whiskey in the UK.
I tried to explain that wasn’t how it worked & that he could get those whiskeys in the UK already, it’s just they had an extra tariff (cost attached to them) as they were coming from non eu countries.
Bloody hell he exploded basically told me I knew nothing and that he was right, & that I was behind the times!! Then called me mad & patronising for reminding him (as he already knew) that I am an international trade specialist who has also taught industry on the subject. Reading a book is not the same as living and breathing it for an entire career.
If I don’t get an apology, I think we are done. It’s not the disagreeing, or difference of opinion - it was the shouty you are mad person for standing up to me & saying you are right. And the complete mansplaining on my area of expertise.