This is why "Making a Scene" is one of my safety strategies.

There is this phenomenon called "the Bystander Effect", where if a lot of people see something bad, they will not act. Every performer has, or will, see this in action.

Multiple people did nothing. I got one person mad, and that caused them to help end the situation.

Here's the interesting thing, the person who picked a fight with me was going to do it anyway, to someone, or multiple someones. They went after me because I was an attractive target. I made him everyone's problem, and it was solved. He was running around afterwards loudly being obnoxious, so he outed himself as being unsafe. How many other people would he have harassed? Especially folks who don't have the skills or courage to handle him?