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“It was a dangerous myth,” Marjan thinks, “this idea that just being Afghan gave a woman some survival superpower, the ability to withstand such brutal oppression. It gave the world permission to turn its back. Afghan women were resilient because people saw only the ones who survived. No one paid attention to the ones who didn’t.”

There will be no free speech in a country of Mandatory beards. Schools closed for girls, public executions. Whiplashing and exposed ankles, or Painted fingernails it is already held to be a woman in this country. Afghanistan is Cohen consistently rank as the worst place in the world to be a woman. A woman has to be willing to be insulted and ridiculed if she wants to have a career.