jambutty - //Talbot at 22:41 last night - that really upset me, poor, poor woman. //
I suggest you are doing what Talbot did - you are making an assumption based on something you see, which may or not be what you think it is.
I have tried to illustrate the point to Talbot, that just because something appears to be a certain way, does not mean that it necessarily as you are seeing it. It may be, but it may not, assumptions are not helpful.
To use the age-old adage - It says Oxo on the side of buses, but they don't sell it.
I refer you to my analogy, that if a Muslim man saw a European couple arguing, and the man slapped the woman, does that mean that all European men are beaten and cowed by their wives?
We all see everything, but we don't always know that what we see should be interpreted by our own experience, because other cultures live differently from us, and your ways are not theirs, and vice versa.
I am simply putting the idea out there - this lady may appear to be 'oppressed' to our Western eyes, it doesn't mean that she is.