Why did you wimp out? You hurt us all

Not only your fellow girl-lovers, but the girl, also.

A better tactic would have been to eyeball the chick despite the way she was dressed, and let her mother see that no amount of covering up is going to prevent men from looking at her daughter.

When the bitch said "You're showing skin" a bit of conscious-raising was needed; something along the lines of "Great! If I had skin like that I'd show it myself!"

That poor chick needed a bit of encouragement, a bit of reinforcing of her urge to break free of the cage her mother has built around her.

Me? I would have cursed her out, and told her to her face that she is not fit to raise a child. Crude, maybe, but catering to her authoritarianism only serves to reinforce it.

That poor child needs help, and you could have given it to her, if only for a moment.

But, your reaction is understandable; I was arrested in Florida for asking a girl her name. A mother in the Midwest screamed to a librarian to "Call 911!" when she saw me looking at her daughters.

Given the climate of fear in which American men are living today, it is not surprising.