The DM may love a story like this, but, hell, so do I.
It cheers me up a bit about the stories that go nowhere, with predictable endings: My friend getting her nose, teeth, and ribs broken in a racist attack in Cambridge; me getting beaten up - on a bus - by a group of men, who followed me, and followed me onto the bus (without paying) - and the bus driver saying/doing nothing, and the passengers, doing nothing, until they ran off the bus - at which point he told me if I was lucky he didn't kick me off the bus!; two of my friends stabbed (separately) by "rowdy" groups of "lads".
Who says she's a Tory?
Why is it necessarily a bad thing just because she's not a victim? Would the story be so dubious if it were published elsewhere?
When I worked on a feminist fanzine, we printed a merry little tale about a group of girls, being harassed by some "lads", who kicked the shit out of said group - to their great surprise.
The police were looking for "a group of three young women, in stripey tights, dark clothing, and brightly coloured hair. With a dog."
Would that be more palatable?
I have to say, I am a leeetle squeamish about the use of violence in the story we published. This woman simply made herself unignorable until people did what they were supposed to do. That's, really, quite a minimal thing.
As a middle-aged woman, she was supposed to be meek and invisible and pliant. I would say she detourned the conventions admirably.