"The Witch", "The Wicked", "The Devil", "She is a disgrace to the Supreme Court", "She is the meanest person in the world", "That woman is a zombie". The above are the comments of one man after another on a woman, with a tone of disgust and disdain. When I saw this, I suddenly felt very funny. These words are no different from the "crazy woman" and "slut" we see in the news. In a male-dominated society, if you want to strike down on women, it can't be simpler, and the shit pot will be deducted first.
Immediately afterwards, she said in a succinct manner: "I'm not trying to fight for preferential treatment for women, I just want my fellow males to move their feet from our necks", with unwavering determination in her slowness.
She is the "notorious RBG", the first female justice of the US Supreme Court, and became the US Ikon in her old age. She has worked hard for "feminism" all her life, as she said, not for women's privileges, but for equal rights.
Every lawsuit she represents is enough to illustrate her position, pattern and compassion. Her pleadings were rigorous and powerful.
Mr. Chief Justice and may it please the Court: Women today face discrimination in employment, as pervasive and more subtle than discrimination encountered by minority groups.
Dear Chief Justice, allow me to state the following in court: Women today are being discriminated against in the workplace as common and harder to detect as discrimination against minorities.
Sex classifications imply a judgement of inferiority. The sex criterion stigmatizes, when it is used to protect women from competing for higher paying jobs, promotions. Itassumes that all women are preoccupied with home and children.
Different treatment of gender implies a judgment of pros and cons. Today’s gender norms stigmatize women, and it’s used to ensure that women don’t compete for high-paying jobs and don’t get promoted. It recognizes that women are born to serve the family and raise children.
These distinctions have a common effect: they help keep woman in her place, a place inferior to that occupied by men in our society.
These distinctions have the same effect, they imprison women in a socially inferior position to men,
At this time, there is only an empty podium in the picture, but you can feel her power through her voice.
She filed a lawsuit for a man to seek the "privilege" that originally belonged to women - the "mother's security fund", which is essentially a social support fund for a single-parent family.
The man's wife passed away due to amniotic fluid embolism. He decided to raise the child full-time and went to the local social security bureau to communicate, but found that the "social support fund" was only issued to women, and in American society at that time, the market was basically male labor, and all the laborers were male. These benefits are basically derived from men's taxes, and in the end they can't benefit from them.
At that time, all the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States were men, and they were men of the privileged class. They could not understand the problems that an ordinary man would face when he assumed the role of "home cook". RBG took the case:
For the eight months immediately following his wife's death, Stephen Wiesenfelddid not engage in substantial gainful employment. Instead, he devoted himself to the care of Jason Paul.
In the eight months following his wife's death, Stephen Wiesenfeld did not engage in any substantially remunerative work. He chose to take care of his son Jason Paul with all his heart.
This case is a case of sexism turning against discriminators. Sexism hurts everyone, including those who are discriminated against and those who are discriminated against. The case was ultimately won with men receiving "social support payments."
She seized every opportunity to fight for equal rights between men and women, and some people called her "a weak woman with hard bones". What she did, in the eyes of "discriminatory women", was simply outrageous. In the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, women were mostly housewives, but her husband chose to stand behind her to take care of her life and provide spiritual support. She is reserved and reserved, and he is outgoing and lively. When he, also a graduate of Harvard Law School, was asked if he had given his wife any advice, he replied tactfully and humorously: Just as she would not advise me on cooking , and I'm not going to give her legal advice.
After watching the movie "Justice Ginsburg", it is easy to convince every awakened member who supports equal rights between men and women to believe in love, but such a couple is affectionate and can be met but not sought after.
In addition to a woman's love for career and society, this documentary also has ideal love, Qin Se and Ming. Everyone can see what they are interested in, a period of American history, the justice's excellent clothing, and even as a language, you can listen to the sound of the documentary with your eyes closed, and feel the language charm of the justice's lawsuit. It happens that you are interested in translation, and you can also look at the subtitle translation for comparison.
This documentary and this woman are worth your 90 minutes sitting in front of the screen. Whether you are male or female.
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