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I am a politics student. My boss at work (my job is nothing to do with politics) constantly belittles me when we are having a friendly debate. We are on opposite ends of the political spectrum, I’m very left and he’s very on the right. Anything I say is dismissed and all he does is shout over me, when it gets heated he often turns to using personal attacks. I’m very calm when I debate because there’s not use in shouting and being ignorant to other people’s views. He once shouted at me, ‘with all due respect, you don’t know anything as you’re only young and a woman’. Safe to say I called him out on his sexism and informed him he was shit at debating as it should never come down to attacking someone personally or being sexist towards them. Writing this now is infuriating me. When men don’t think I know anything as I’m a young woman, they are often surprised (They wouldn’t be if I was male) when I come across With extremely valid points with evidence to back it up!