What really annoys me of the post is that it resorts to exact the same emotional arguments that generated follies like CoC in the first place. "My emotional resilience was low"... "I tried to hold back tears"... Come on. You're an adult, someone disagrees with you for reasons that are entirely, perniciously wrong.

No need to dwell on your emotional state, just say that they are being idiots and tell them to fuck off- publicly. Enough with this crap.