Your privilege is showing. You have absolutely no concept of how dangerous it can be for women to "handle themselves" in these kinds of situations. Many have been killed for less. Was this 70 year old out in the country going to do that? Probably not, but as a woman, you don't actually know how entitled, unhinged, and dangerous a man you don't know is going to turn out to be.

Tiarah Poyau was a 22-year-old graduate student and aspiring accountant when she told a man at a dance party to “get off” after he started to grind on her. His response was to shoot her in the face. Iowa college student Mollie Tibbets was killed by a man she told to leave her alone when he approached her while she was jogging. A Detroit mother of three was killed because she refused to give a stranger her phone number. A New York woman had her neck slashedwhen she declined her attacker’s offer for a date.

Men are not subjected to this sort of "impoliteness" so please don't minimize this universal experience that women have to routinely navigate as something that is not so different from what you and other men have to deal with in the world. It's incredibly insenstive and downright clueless.