Haskell was endorsed by none other than former president Barack Obama. of American moms, but it shouldn’t be. No person should be forced to choose between advancing in their careers and starting a family or caring for an ill parent. That message really resonated with so many folks in this district, who are simply frustrated that in 2018, we still haven’t built a society that can provide equal rights to men and women. In essence, in a rapist culture, we might examine how we embolden and support men like the accused R. Kelly. In a rapist culture, we would focus not on how victims find themselves targeted by their assaulters but rather on how rapists manipulate environments, narratives, and other actors to protect themselves from accountability. In a rapist culture, we would spend less time asking where the parents are and more time asking what role we each actively play in undermining the experiences of victims and survivors. so there is so much more that Connecticut can do to prevent the next tragedy, and it really came to define this race.