But – guess what’s incredible? 500 years since my legend was written, men still want to appropriate me! Yup, they want to appropriate a fictional female who was brought up to believe she must throw herself into fire rather than face rape...

Why are you fighting exactly? Why do you want to protect my ‘honour’? Forget for a moment whether I existed or not. Forget whether I’m fact or fiction. Are you seriously telling me you want to deify a woman who set herself on fire so she wouldn’t be raped?

Today, not much has changed. A woman shouldn’t be raped, they say, because she is someone’s mother, daughter, sister, girlfriend. A woman shouldn’t be raped, they say, because she belongs to another man – her protector and guardian.