Never give up or cower. Smack them in the face with it.
I think I’ve only ‘smacked’ someone once in my life.
In the days before feminism and an overly-litigious society, women could ‘smack’ nasty men who took inappropriate liberties with them - and the men got the message, and society stood behind the women.
I don’t think ‘smacking’ is appropriate in many other situations - and probably in none, today. Women have made themselves into helpless little girls who run to *Authority* when a man gets to being what we used to call ‘fresh’.