"... most men, even good caring men, have no clue what we go through on a daily basis..."

[JoeyT]

7. Given the current culture of blaming

victims, including telling them that they didn't do enough to make a harasser go away, how well do you think it'll go when someone takes your advice?

Aside from the rape whistle, which are worthless at best in almost any situation and may make a lot of bad situations worse, all the solutions you listed are crimes to use unless force is warranted. Unless someone has crossed a line where a judge or jury would be ok with the person they're harassing picking up a baseball at and beating the dogshit out of them, it's the woman that's being harassed that's going to jail when she turns the conflict physical. Even if she only brandishes the weapon (Which is always a bad idea: Never pull a weapon you don't intend to use immediately.) she's still probably going to be the one arrested.

Your post actually helps reinforce the point of the OP: Women are not going to be allowed to win in these situations. If they don't drive the guy away with fire and thunder, clearly they wanted him there. If they do shoot/cut/taze/spray him, they're painted as crazy bitches that overreact over nothing and will probably see jail time because of it.

So we're either going to have to create a culture where it's ok for any woman to gun down any man at any time for any reason and not question her motives, or we're (We being dudes mostly, but society in general works too.) going to have to step up and start ostracizing the guys that harass and intervening when we see it happen. We can't have it both ways.