Maybe it's because I'm a female, and we're conditioned to let things go, but I've always laughed it off in these situations and acted like it wasn't a big deal. Then I go cry about it at home. However, in this case, I would've felt really awkward sitting at the bar knowing that everyone saw someone make fun of me and saw me get upset, so I would've left anyway. One thing that people who don't stutter fail to realize is that stuttering isn't funny to the stutterer. It's not even really funny to non-stutterers unless they like humor that punches down. I blame it on TV and movies from a different generation (Porky Pig, My Cousin Vinny, etc) that treat stuttering like it's a big joke. I was once in a group skit (forced group project) where a classmate wanted to give his character a stutter for cheap laughs. I actually had to pull him aside while we were writing the skit to tell him how hurtful that actually is. He was genuinely surprised and immediately took it out of the skit. It's really unfair that it's up to us sometimes to educate others about this but that's unfortunately the way it is.