jimhines

Number 2 - the indirect deflection by "Can you tell me...?" is an excellent ploy if other men in the vicinity - and this, I'm afraid, is very much something which splits down gender lines, muc though I agree with your point six in general - don't mess it up by helpfully leaping in to say, "Oh, the next panel isn't for ages" or "There's a clock on the wall behind you" or "Haven't you got your handy convention map, here, have mine". That is, in my experience of sexual harassment (and I've unfortunately acquired quite a bit, due to a twenty-five year career in law where there's long been a tradition of older partners playing alpha-male games with junior female staff) women very frequently try the indirect ploy to get out of the situation and find it being stymied by obtuse men who think they're being helpful by answering the direct question/point (and taking the opportunity to show off their Super-Knowledgability) and not being alert to the possibility of an ulterior motive for the woman who's raising the issue.

I've tried the "let me help you get the drinks" line, for example, to get out of an uncomfortable bar grope situation, where the idea is to get away from the groper and use the distance either to escape or at least to alert the drink-bringer to the fact that there's a bit of a situation developing, and that one is unfortunately deeply vulnerable to the "oh, no, allow me" unhelpful intervention.

So I'd add "Listen to what the victim is saying and be alert not to cut off her own lines of escape" to this very helpful list.