While you stick to ideals and advocate for how things should work, the reality of how things actually work is that many states as well as the federal government

While you stick to ideals and advocate for how things should work, the reality of how things actually work is that many states as well as the federal government, independently but concerted, are setting back society for women in the US by several decades. So perhaps thicker skin can also include "not minding when someone or some company does something like this, because they understand that sometimes, words matter".