Really, if they feel inferior because you address them in a way that they do not and cannot understand, that is not your problem. (I realize that it is nonetheless a real practical, political problem for women in the contemporary workplace, who can be taken to task by all sorts of invested onlookers for seeming to be too uppity.)
Still it is not your burden to bring yourself down to his level of consciousness in order to communicate with him. This is not something that can be achieved even if you were to beat your head against the wall relentlessly with effort. You can't have smaller and more crippled notions than you already have.
You feel emotionally blackmailed because you have been conditioned to believe that standing up as tall as you really are will be hurtful to all sorts of people. This belief has not come from nowhere but from society's attitudes towards women, and the fact that you have been punished over and over again for being too "uppity" when you were merely communicating in as logical and effective a way as you knew how to. Thus the stupider souls in society have managed to bring you down to their level. (There is the efficacy of lizard brain machinations in all of this, since they have found a way to indulge their laziness and blame YOU for it -- so that you have to do all the work to try to bridge the gap between their levels of thinking and yours.)
O my brethren, into the hearts of the good and just looked some one once on a time, who said: "They are the Pharisees." But people did not understand him.
The good and just themselves were not free to understand him; their spirit was imprisoned in their good conscience. The stupidity of the good is unfathomably wise.
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