Sometimes people use
"respect" to
mean "treating someone like a person"
and sometimes they use "respect" to
mean "treating someone like an
Authority"
and sometimes people who are used to
being treated like an authority say "if you
won't respect me I won't respect you"
and they mean "if you won't treat me like
an authority I won't treat you like a
Person"
and they think they're being fair but they
aren't, and it's not okay.