That's the problem. You care what other's think about you. You feel weak when you follow an order, or when you give someone else respect, or when you doing anything nice.
Respect is a sign of strength; it's self control, it's power over yourself. People who can't express it are caught up in their la-la land.
Words are an efficient form of communication. Never was it in our 3 million years of evolution to 'defend' ourselves from words. When you feel threatened by what someone says, you are giving into the system. Being unaffected doesn't mean that you have a shield and are immune; but rather that you are seperate, the kind of thing can't affect you, becuase you are in another plane of existance. A square can't touch a cube, a cube can't touch a square; it's like trying to make a facebook page in rl.
To care what someone says is ridiculous- if they called you a name in a language you couldn't understand, you wouldn't care. Caring what someone thinks or says about you is not only ridiculous, but an invisible perception.
The truth is that social interactions only exist in your head, it's your pereception. Only physical interactions are real; our ability to express differant concepts, in a detailed manner, is the integral part of our ability to communicate.
That's all it's there for. If you feel weak when someone calls you a name, you are weak, regardless of how you respond to what you say. The invisible clapping or reward in your head provides you with no benefits.
You are not strong if your affected. You are weak if you are affected for any reason. Strength of heart, and strength of mind is the key- you realize the concepts, your able to admit to yourself the truths, and you can disregard the fake things for what they are; fake.
You outgrow your insecurity by first repressing it, then dismissing it, then having it dissolve into a plane of non-existance until you are entirely out of the system, and do not care.
If you have to say "******** you" or feel the need to, to everyone that says something mean to you, then you are weak, regardless of whether you say it or not.
Thingy I wrote