Sometimes, you’re the pigeon, and sometimes the statue.
Let’s face it, as much as we don’t like others to shit on us, we do that to others now and then, too.
If you like to “just say how I feel” and expect others not to get offended by your ‘honesty’, don’t get offended when others do the same to you.
What if you’re a considerate person, but the other party is not at all? What if you always think from the other person’s angle, but they don’t?
You can either educate (or shoot down) the pigeon or decide that you’re not going to be the statue and walk away.
So, yes. Sometimes you’re the pigeon, and sometimes you’re the statue.