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For the sake of your own mental health, you should stop caring about what makes random internet strangers happy. There will be always a minority reacting with a

• DoreenMichele 6y ago
  When animosity reaches a certain threshold, ignoring it is actually dangerous and not merely to one's mental health. I didn't respond in frustration. That's one of the issues here. Other people act weird, tell me there's something wrong with how I phrased it, I engage them conversationally and now some other random stranger replies with a comment that can be interpreted to mean I'm merely neurotic and oversensitive. That boils down to "When other people react weirdly to your prosaic observation, you cannot engage them. You are required to try to somehow rise above it and not speak to them. And when this becomes an entrenched pattern, it's somehow your fault for existing." That fundamentally doesn't work.