Being unbothered, minding your business, and paying dust to petty ass hoes is a recipe for unwanted attention. You can be out here just living your life and some random cave ogre will talk to you or about you crazy. Some of the stoics say you should just ignore them, that they are projecting their own misery on to you. Not everyone values direct honest behavior. It is considered rude and unrefined. In a world where the wealthy rest atop a pile of fortune labored into existence by the poor and middle class, stock in genuine intentions is in the negative. I say that whenever possible you should give these passive aggressive little bitty biches a lesson in the value of integrity and empathy. The real motivation of passive aggressive behavior isn't an outside source of anxiety, IMO. It DOES have to do with you specifically. To go out of one's own way to plan and plot to "throw shade" at someone is not effortless. This leads me to believe that ...