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Here is my favorite sexual harassment anecdote (there's a sentence you don't hear often, eh?)—A woman is sitting on a city bus and feels the creep next to her squirm his hand underneath her bottom. So she grabs his hand, stands up and shouts, "Did anyone lose a hand? BECAUSE I FOUND THIS ONE ON MY A**!"  Great, isn't it? And how we all hope we'd respond in a similar setting, rather than slinking away feeling confused and ashamed.

As it turns out, the women of Delhi, India, have adopted some great survival techniques in the face of the widespread sexual harassment that plagues the streets of their city. According to Sruthi Gottipati of the New York Times's India Ink blog, these everyday superheroes "read situations with razor wits and instinct; they deploy mind control. They size up their attackers and draw out the appropriate weapon–an earsplitting scream, a filthy look, a well-connected slap." So, in honor of International Women's Day, here is a video of some of the bravest and a**-kickingest women in the world. Caution: there is some condoning of violence. But only toward total creeps.

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