Banter

To my knowledge this originated in the UK. it certainly occurs in Australia. How shall I define it? Teasing? Mild ribbing? Common among men, especially young men in say a sports team, or doing a physical "blue collar" job, in the military too I imagine.
I am prompted to start this topic after hearing JP (Jordan Peterson) talk about it in the context of someone being teased about their "lunchbox" which they brought to work. A young guy doing a working class job gets teased about his lunch box, takes it seriously and thus escalates the ribbing.Peterson stresses the importance of being able to take a "ribbing" and not react as a predictor of handling more difficult pressures in life.
In my younger years I was actually quite good at "taking a ribbing". it didn't bother me and if I had a weird , feminine lunch box with me at a male dominated job, I could certainly see the funny side of that. Guess it may teach me though, to not leave my self open for further ribbings in future.
Oversensitivity is a problem and taking ourselves too seriously will only make matters worse. I wonder though if I was in the same scenario now, how resilient and "good humoured" I would be about it? Mayber a bit grumpy. Well I would probably eat alone for a start because I tend not to enjoy crass conversations of testosterone-full men.
One guy on a forum a few years ago was following me all over the forum. Every comment I made, he would try to outwit or diminish.A bit like out trolling the troll perhaps? I didn't mind at first but then I finally confronted him about it, when it became wearisome. he said "just having a bit of banter mate, cant you take a joke".
It really did make me question whether I was oversensitive and not able to "banter" with others. Still, his "trolling" on me was relentless. I thought it had gone way past banter, and had become personal. So I "bantered" back. And then he complained I was a sore loser who lacked all humour. I just didn't find him that witty anyway. maybe he was envious, I dunno.