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Originally Posted by MrSelfDestruct
Next time some creep does something like that, all you have to do is throw your elbow into his throat with all your weight behind it. Fighting back after running for a long time is one of the most gratifying things you can do.
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MrSelfDestruct' s quote was simply the closest of several suggesting that my getting violent in that situation would have been an appropriate response; I'm not trying to pick on him, just using it as a representative example.
I'm not going to hit somebody solely because he touched me inappropriately. It might make him back off, or he might have hit me back. If he hit me back, I'd be in a hell of a lot worse situation than I started in. By walking away, I accomplished the same goal as getting him to back off. I put distance between us. I see no possible positive outcome for me that would come from hitting him.
All of that is after the fact analysis, though. In the moment, all I know is that I don't want to be near this guy, he's a lot bigger than I am, and he's already shown that he's aggressive. All that tells me the best thing to do is get the hell away from him, and in this case, it was a very effective strategy.
Nothing I did at that point would have made that feeling of having been violated go away. I needed Grace for that. All that escalating the situation would have done was draw the attention of everyone around us. As it is, he knows he got away with something, but that's it. Unless it's a story he'd want to share with the other guys hanging out there, in which case my hitting him would only have sped the discovery, or I suppose have made it a better story. I don't know how these guys think. Maybe this is the kind of thing that they like to share when they're talking about girls.
I'm rambling again. In essense, given fight or flight and an opponent capable of putting me in a world of hurt, I'll choose flight every time.
Gilda