a sense of joy and then a panic

And I agree that insofar as something like the UN can change norms, that is probably the most important factor in political change; I just also think that change seems apparent more often than it is. Much as people on the west coast think their gender relations are better than in the midwest, but I see those wonderful, liberal, feminist men doing the same damn things that the godfearing, conservative, frat boys do, with different reasoning, and it's sad. And it does have the potential for change...maybe even some real change has occurred, but...much less than they think, and sometimes it's the thinking that this wonderful change has happened that bothers me, because then people refuse to see what's wrong...