Tilda wrote “telling a woman that she doesn’t know her own ethnicity and culture is mansplaining at its worst.”
And I’ve had the same experience with my friend who looks Portuguese but isn’t! Mansplaining about a girls race or heritage IS a thing! They try to guess where you are from “originally” and when you say they are wrong they correct you – how much overconfidence is that!
Because obviously the completely random male stranger would know better than any woman.
I know my friend her parents are both white English and her grandparents, I’ve met them, but hey if a random man says you are Portuguese don’t contradict him…. it happened to her quite a lot, not just once.
it’s just weird, of course it’s not a big deal but just one little bugging addition and I wonder what is really going on psychologically. Some people just have to dominate, but you’ve got to admit it’s a weird thing to insist on being right about.
They should be teaching boys at school to back down gracefully when wrong instead of sticking to their guns. Macho nonsense.