You are equating these things to rape?

A little old woman isn't going to be able to do a damned thing to stop these people (short of using some sort of weapons), so if she isn't secure on public transportation, she's just in a bad predicament with poor options.

What do CI readers think a woman should do in such circuмstances?
Case #1
An intoxicated man makes a grab for her breasts on a crowded public shopping district street in broad daylight.
Case #2
A professionally dressed man gropes a woman while riding a crowded public transportation vehicle.
Case #3
A young man grabs the derierre of a woman three times his age and makes a crude remark for the benefit of his two pals.  Again, occurs in public, in a convenience store, with approximately a dozen other customers, male and female present.

In all three cases, the woman is dressed modestly in feminine clothing that would pass the "Padre Pio Test."  Case one, the woman yelled and pushed the drunk away.  Case two, she screamed and stomped with her heel on top of his foot.  Case three, she yelled, and when all three fled, she reported it to the store manager who laughed in her face.  In cases one and two, she told a police officer who shrugged it off as 'nothing.'  By the time of case three, she knew the police were useless.  In no case did a man come to her defense, although men were present and knew what had happened. A woman offered to pursue the three youths in her car, but then what if they'd been located?

What should the woman who is single-in-the-world and past marriageable/enter a convent age do?  Please give realistic suggestions, nothing ridiculous like wear a burka, go live in a cave, hire a full-time body-guard, pull out a pistol and shoot him the head...Anyonnow some effective but subtle martial arts maneuvers?

The degree of injury to the woman has nothing to do with his motivations.

These things (within certain limits) are traditionally a cause of levity, rightly or wrongly.

Not of homicidal retribution.  That is weird, it comes from the feminism.

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Minor offenses you probably just have to accept, until you can avoid people who do such things.

Attempting to inflict injury on someone over a minor thing is not proportional self-defense, and might well be self-defeating or lead to something worse.

If a man starts touching your sixteen year old daughter, you don't have a right to inflict injury on him?  I'd probably end up in the ICU but I would do my best.

 Do you know how disgusting it is? They do this things for ******* excitement. I thought lethal force was justified for rape, murder, or kidnapping.

~Tiffany

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Yes it would be.

We are talking about strangers here, not an acquaintance who did something inappropriate or not welcomed and then stopped.

That's crazy, and any man who injured a woman like that for touching him would be locked up.