The question doesn't come up if you just don't walk up to random strangers on the street and make comments. Sure, sometimes it might work out fine for both par

The question doesn't come up if you just don't walk up to random strangers on the street and make comments. Sure, sometimes it might work out fine for both parties. In almost all cases it doesn't. If that woman feared retribution due to harassment laws, and she wouldn't have approached your wife, then the world now would be poorer by one anecdote, but at the same time much safer and more welcoming to billions of women. It's not a hard choice at all.