Yesterday saw the premiere of RBG at the Village Cinema, a documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second female Supreme Court justice in the history of the US Supreme Court. The audience was mostly female, and there were also some gray-haired partners. There are three feelings after the aftertaste.
1) In an era when a company could legally dismiss a woman because she was pregnant, and a woman’s loan had to be signed by her husband, RBG worked with the women of that era to promote women’s reproductive autonomy, voting rights, and equal pay for equal work. ?? affirmative action, and then liberated women from the status of male appendages. One of the widower vs. Social Security Administration cases impressed me: a man who lost his wife wanted to receive child support benefits that used to be available only to single mothers, but the Social Security Administration rejected him on the grounds that he was male. RBG helped the man win the lawsuit, and also explained the reasons why gender is treated differently in society, which will not only cause harm to women, but also to men, and further provides for the repeal of laws and regulations that contain gender discrimination. precedent support. Thinking of what An Nai, the heroine's female boss at Gucci, said in "Tokyo Women's Guide", "How much hardship has our generation received in exchange for equality between men and women!", the enlightenment and freedom we can hold in our hands today are inseparable Open the confrontation and struggle of the ancestors who are either middle-aged or gray-haired.
2) RBG has a very supportive husband Martin, and the two met and graduated from college. In an interview, the host asked him: would you give her any advice? Note that a hole is actually dug here: as the only woman in the university's law major, RBG not only faced a lot of difficulties when looking for a job, but also faced outsiders' doubts about whether its business level was inferior to that of men. At this time, her husband, who is also a lawyer, thought for a moment and smiled slightly: Just as she would not give me advice on how to cook, I would not give her advice on how to be a lawyer.
At first, I didn't understand why a documentary with a feminist tendency gave Martin so many shots. Later, the film explained the intention with many examples. Martin shared the responsibility of raising the children in the family, defended it many times in public, and finally witnessed RBG taking the seat of the justice in the court audience behind her. The success of RBG is inseparable from the hard work of an individual and a choice to conform to the social trend of thought. It is also inseparable from her husband's understanding and respect for her in her heart, support for her career in action, and sincere protection in her soul. The success of RBG is inseparable from Martin - not from the "guidance" and "protection" of the gender advantage that a man gives to a woman due to the social environment in which he lives, but from two people who are evenly matched and equal in spirit of mutual support and achievement.
3) RBG is now almost 90 years old, has beaten cancer twice in his life, and never misses a day of work. In the documentary, she is still actively working out in the gym (apparatus and non-apparatus), her speech is witty and humorous, and she laughs after seeing a parody of herself on TV; she wears the iconic nerdy round glasses and various collections of fakes. The appearance of the collar is on the print of T-shirts, the popular elements that replace the face, and the tattoos on people. Everyone has a day when they grow old. The media and young people hold her as a superhero-like icon not only because of her status as a pioneer, but also because she gives a woman, or how a person can live in this life. New definition.
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