Sept 21: Social Change ( You wanna hear a joke?) "Yeah" (Women Rights)

Today we were split into groups and given the topic social change. I was surprised to get this topic because I forgot the color coordinated slips of what was what and just choose at random. Social change. When Cecila asked our group to define it, I stuttered because in my mind I realized a connection. Social change is the morphology of societal evolution. Ultimately, we're modifying our way of thinking during the exposure and development of our intellect through the many diversities of knowledge and ideas. As I had said in the past blog, conflict is simply an indication of a necessary change, as well as social change, being a catalyst in the growth of ever-evolving, advancing, growing societies. Social change is not so much as a necessity but one of the many structured progressive stages of our modern society.
I was reminded, however, that social change and conflict must be remembered for its consequences. In class, a group had gender and war. They brought up rape and how its function serves as a psychological and emotional attack on the opposition. "We destroy your way of life and rape your women so that your attempts to reconstruct yourselves is forever tainted/scarred."
Celia brought up a notion that during war, there exists this notion that the one of the main causes of that war was the desire to protect the vulnerable, the innocent. Women and children were the vulnerable, the innocent and I cannot think of worst act than to have that innocence mutilated. Women have always, I believe carried the psychological burden of wars. Their wounds lasting lifetimes, crossing generations, infused deep within their culture so as to remember the atrocities/loss. Hence why social change is a profound and common endeavor. Many past grievances have not been addressed, many ignored, some, never spoken of. Example: King Leopold,  Maori extinction, human trafficking, massacred immigrants along the Mexican border. It goes on and on. And so will social change so as to address these grievances  and prevent similar events happening in the future.