Educated western women struggle to see parallels between their reality and an Afghan villager’s, say, so the concept of global patriarchy is a tough sell, isn’t it? “The so-called liberated women?” she blinks. “I’m not buying all of that. If we look at this country, 300,000 girls on college campuses in America are sexually assaulted every year. Is that an end to oppression? One out of three in the US military is raped by their comrades? So we’re not talking about an end to that violence, absolutely not.”