How many of you out there in the elsewhere enjoy being patronized and condesceded to? Bigshot men do it all the time to women. WHY?

I think everyone male or female has had a person talk down and be condescending to them. I know I have experienced it from both males and females.  Some people just think they are smarter than they are. 

I had this happen.. I was spoken to like a naughty student, condescended horribly.. At first I couldn't believe it was happening.. but if it happens repeatedly one cannot overlook it.. I chose to call it out.. it didn't go down well but I wasn't going to let it just happen.. it's wrong in this day and age. 

I’m a male and I’ve had a few female supervisors speak down to me. I guess it doesn’t matter because I’m a white male.

When I was a bagger at my first job I had a man-hating boss. She was condescending and rude to all of her male subordinates. One day I was bagging groceries for a customer. She placed a couple of donuts she bought on top of her cake. The above mentioned boss came over and started to chastise me in front of my coworkers and customers for putting the the donuts on the cake. She added, “Typical man doing stupid things.”

The customer who was a woman chewed her out for me and told her she placed the donuts on the cake herself. I filed a complaint, won, and she was disciplined. Men aren’t the only gender who is guilty of this. I’m sick of people who act like men are so terrible, especially white ones. 

Maybe they are cowards and only pick on small fry who they think won't bite back....:( 

Well don't know how many "bigshot men" I have known, whatever that means. I have been condescended to both at work and personally but that is a part of life is it not?   Perhaps a lot of the responses I receive on this site might be so but I prefer just to take them at face value.  If someone does not take the time to get to know me then I can't help but view it as their loss, not mine.  Most people just are not interested in that so they deal with me, or anyone else,  in shorthand - which is what I think condescension is.   If they really knew me they would  jot be doing it but they simply choose not to know me which is their prerogative. 

OK I am not a "distinguished college professor", whatever that means.  Nor do I try or even have the abilities to know what is going on all the time except in my own life.  And mostly women getting together DO talk about their children and homes and fashion  - and men!  Seldom recipes any longer. Men talk about business and sports and finance I guess, and sometimes about us, but much less than we do about them - I don't see anything wrong in people talking about what they are interested in.  Have seen men smoking cigars but can't say I know any who do that.  I know something, actually quite a lot, about business and finance.  Really way more than I do about kids and houses and fashion.  So sometimes I talk with the men.  Not that they are always comfortable as a group with me there but certainly individually, away from the group, they would be.  But not sure how welcome a man would be talking kids among the ladies! Though have never encountered that.