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The play showed how the victim feels about the whole process she has to go through.
She felt scared, miserable, desperate, misunderstood, and embarrassed. Her feelings affect
negatively on her capability to look for immediate help. Even if she looks for help, there are
various assumptions that might take her down.

The assumptions of the play are as follows:

■ If someone is educated, he would not commit sexual violence
■ Everyone knows better than the victim herself
■ This is the victimûs fault.
■ Marriage is the best solution
■ It is natural for men to have sex in the situation that they dance together.

All belief systems have their underlying assumption. These assumptions often guide
us towards bias and misunderstanding. As seen above, the assumptions made it hard for her
to recieve fair and equal treatment.

➤ Exercise 2 : Line of Equality

The participants were divided into 3 sub-groups. Each group were given a character card.

The groups gave life to the character including name, age, and family background, etc. Afterwards,
they were to identify the obstacle that these characters might experience
in their everyday lives. Each obstacle forces the characters to step back from the çline of equalityé.
This means the more obstacles there are, the harder it is to enjoy the constitutional right
to equality. After presenting the obstacles, the groups were given comments from NGO experts.

➔ Group 1: Anneûs story

Anne is 30 years old. She has five children under the age of 10. She is suffering from

domestic violence. Obstacles she might have to constitutional equality are as follows:

■ She is afraid of going to the police
■ She is poor and uneducated so she does not know her rights and where
to get help or protection
■ She does not want to take action against her husband but keep the family
together

■ She thinks the community would not support her because it is her
private matter