Understanding and Challenging Stigma toward ... - Pact Cambodia

C3
How to Challenge Stigma in an
Assertive Way
Example role play:
Father: Why are you dressing like a woman? Don’t you feel ashamed?
Son:
I like myself this way. This is the way I am.
Father: You should change. I want you to be a real man!
Son:
There is nothing I can do. This is my nature.
I can’t change.
Father: Don’t you care about your future?
Son:
I do care. If you want me to get married to
a woman that’s impossible. A woman
is like I am and I don’t have feelings
for women.
Father: If you don’t have interest in women,
who is going to marry you?
Son:
Maybe no one will marry me, but this is the
way I am and I love it.
After two minutes ask a few pairs to show their role plays (one at a time) in the
center of the circle. After each role play, ask, “How did the MSM do? Was he
convincing and effective? What made a difference in the way he challenged his
father?”
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