VA-05: 'I was drugged and raped' at Marine Corps ball, Virginia candidate says in new TV ad

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4. Having seen how cultural trends are changed shows me

that only very large and concerted activism will change the long standing acceptance of inequality. The Civil Rights movement Largely changed the status quo against people of color in this country. The Feminist movement going on at the same time changed the laws and culture for women’s rights. And just recently, in the last few decades the LGBT movement has changed the laws and the culture.

If you wait around to be taken seriously it will never happen. There has to be a definite movement to change aspects of the status quo for it to happen. I see women running for higher office with sexual harassment and rape prominently being part of their campaigns as the vanguard of the changes in laws and in the societal culture in the future.

No overarching changes happen by themselves. It is very difficult, but sooner or later change comes if the demand is societal and widespread.