“One of my biggest fears is that a personal video of me will be posted somewhere on the internet and go viral. I mean ... if I cause any sort of conflict, that video is almost guaranteed to end up on webs of the net, and I will become another crazy on the news. The media and the rest will be too happy to find another woman as a scapegoat.”

That’s legitimate but not a guarantee. However, you do have a right and a choice when to be filmed and when not to be! And in this situation, it seems if that were the case, then your fears are valid. Especially in this day and age where cameras are so accessible to anyone that people seem to assume everyone wants to take a selfie with them, and women seem to bear the brunt of it. (I had a friend who was in a terrible scandal about this so this is evidence). Not everyone’s a criminal, but cybercrime is rife and so are weirdos who do it.

“I would prefer intimidation over actual physical harm or robbery.”

This made me really angry, because tbh I would not prefer any except the request to be treated as a decent human being. I guess if you’re putting it on a scale of what was worse, but c’mon neither of those are acceptable!

Anyway, it’s up to you. It might just be new, but if you really want to be sure, just agreed w user below to ignore until there is a niggling sense.

Good luck OP.