Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Appearances
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court, sex, like race, is a visible characteristic bearing no necessary relationship to ability. Sex, like race, has been made the basis for unjustified, or at least unproved assumptions concerning an individual who can't reach a woman.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
I think people who want to keep women down would like nothing better than to women go off in the corner and speak only to women. Nothing would happen.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
You need to persuade men that this is right for society. Part one of her strategy? Choose your words carefully. I had a secretary at Columbia who said, I'm typing these things for you and jumping out all over the pages, seconds after Don't you know that the audience you are addressing, the first association of those men with the word sex is not what you're talking about.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Because in Oklahoma State at the time... Oklahoma had a very silly law. Girls could buy beer at age 18, but the boys had to wait until 21.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
My answer to that question is no, in part because such a law has an insidious impact against females.
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More Perfect: Sex Appeal
Against females, it stands then docile, compliant, safe to be trusted.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
My response to that, Mr. Justice Stevens, is that almost every discrimination that operates against males operates against females as well.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
No, I'm not trying to avoid the question. I'm trying to clarify the position that I don't know of any line that doesn't work as a two-edged sword.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
No, my case depends on your recognition that using gender as a classification, resorting to that classification. is highly questionable and should be closely reviewed.
Radiolab
More Perfect: Sex Appeal
We wished that the court had picked a less frothy case to make that announcement, but of course we were very, very pleased that after that...
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