I am not stretching the notion of violence at all, skyofblue. Violence and violation come from the same root word, obviously. Whether you know it or not, there is a solid thread in the study of violence that defines it as the violation of the integrity of a person, and it can be verbal as easily as physical. You can probably look it up. Assault, also, can be verbal as well as physical. Look at what is happening on social media, ... cases where people verbally harass someone to the point of suicide.

So, as I said, I don't know whether this woman committed a crime, but there's a very good chance she can end up before a judge in a civil suit. 

We have to take responsibility for what we say. If we hurt someone badly by degrading them, for example, then we have to take responsibility for that, and we can be held to account.