I won't be insulted.
I won't be laid a hand on.
I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them.
- John Wayne in "The Shootist"
But continue to "rise above it." Take the abuse with "dignity." Don't fight back. Let them roll over you. Be a doormat. Because it has worked so well.
Thanks for that quote. It superbly sums up how I feel.
I read some woman ‘journalist,’ (or editor; who cares) from WaPo, iirc, who praised Sanders for just sitting there and taking it. Instantly I knew something was wrong. This same feminist would have had a stroke if a conservative talked that way about a leftist. But conservative women ARE punching bags in the eyes of feminists so of course Sanders was expected to simply sit there and absorb the punishment.