Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary: What’s the best response to a patronising man?

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issue 15 April 2023

Q. I have some fairly new friends who very generously invited me to stay with them in Turkey. They told me who would be coming and I was slightly dreading meeting up again with one man I haven’t seen since we were much younger. He was always patronising and a bit misogynistic, and – as I was to discover – is even more insufferable now he has become successful.

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