I have been swallowing the pill for a couple of years now. Found a link to roissy and blossomed from there. Since swallowing, I have put on 10kgs of muscle, In the process of learning a language, take my work and hobbies seriously and cut out TV and other time wasting activities. All these things that focus on me becoming a better man for myself. Im tall reasonably good looking and intelligent. My long term relationship is now amazing, when it had been on edge previously.

I give this background to paint a picture of why this whipping boy problem is happening and how i can stop it.

I feel like the whipping boy of my social group. All us guys give each other alot of heat joking around, i give it aswell as get it etc. But the redpill really opens your eyes to what is actually going on in alot of these settings. Some guys are point scoring and legitimately trying to lower your value as opposed to actual joking around. Often it comes in passive aggressive ambiguous forms i.e. people implying something with their words but not having the nuts to say it. Or people bring up negative quality's/things about you to lower your value to the group under the guise of "joking".

How do you guys deal with this kind of behavior? I see a few potential ways to deal:

Ignore it and be the whipping boy

Come back hot with your own aggressive (dickish) comments

Escalate to violence or threats of

Stop hanging out with these people

None of these seem like good options to me escalating or coming back hot infers that you are upset about it. Ignoring it makes you a pussy and whipping boy. There are always going to be people you dont like around if you have to avoid all of them life aint going to be much fun.

How do you guys deal with people like this? Are there any resources for reading about this kind of stuff? Like social "game" i guess. Interested in theRedpill perspective on this behavior.