QotD: Appropriate Reactions

I have, in my time, reacted to being groped with defensive physical violence, and the fact is, people go on about all these violent dreams of how women ought to respond, but when there's an actual large male on the ground, guess who gets all the sympathy and who gets to be the humourless nasty overreacting bitch?

Marna Nightingale, posting to the Lois McMaster Bujold mailing list, 2006-09-04