Saying fuck&#x27;em and ignore&#x27;em is overly simplistic. Some people can do it. Most can&#x27;t. Even athletes who earn millions of dollars and have hundreds of thousands of fans can get riled up by words from a single hater.<p>At a Social Anxiety meetup, I remember one person who could in great detail recall a racist incident years back when a random person called the person a racially derogative word. Sure, he could&#x27;ve just shrugged it off as it was just a stranger and all. Yet it had a profound effect.<p>Just as much as words from strangers can inspire us to commit profound change, so can words do great damage.