I had such a son. He wasn’t small for his age; he was fat. And he was bullied mercilessly.
Today, he is an Air Force Tactical Air Control/JTAC cwndidate.
Adversity challenges some people. It conquers others.
I got over it too. But unwanted advances and insults from men were a daily stressor for me for years. One event, you shrug off. A constant stream of them shouldn’t be dismissed by those who haven’t lived through it.