That article seemed to me to be playing "one up"; that the person (or group) doing the rejecting had the freedom to reject an individual and that individual had no choice but to learn to accept and cope.
That's all very fine for when the person has a "right" of rejection, but what about when they don't?
In cases of DF'ing the rejection is mandated by people who don't have a real right to force their decision on anyone else, but do, so that 6 million+ people will reject an individual without ever really making up their own minds whether they want to or not.
What about people who are too immature to really know what they are rejecting as in the case of a child or an ill-informed person?
AnneB,
Maybe you can find some information on what you are asking and post it here for us.
purps