How to deal

Anger

• Honour culture response
• Suggests truth
• Upsetting may be the point

Acceptance

• Agreeing
• Maybe overly so
• Make them uncomfortable with your honesty

Return it

• Satisfying
• L’esprit de l’escalier
• Risky

Humour

• Can deescalate
• Original insult crumbles
• Wins bystanders
• Think sarcasm
• Often too late

Ignore

• Hard to do
• Not satisfying
• Can be effective

Adulting

• A quiet word aside
• Exhausting
• Time suck
• Wins with adults, might not with peers

How to

Able to move

Get them to think

Ask a question

Humour takes work

Research

Practice