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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Shares Her Tales of Harassment

USN: Count Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a member of the #MeToo movement.

…”Every woman of my vintage knows what sexual harassment is, although we didn’t have a name for it,” Ginsburg, 84, the subject of an upcoming documentary, told NPR’s Nina Totenberg in a one-on-one interview.

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When she was an undergraduate at Cornell University in the early 1950s, Ginsburg told Totenberg, she was pursued by a “wolf” of a chemistry professor she’d gone to for tutoring. The professor made his intentions clear, she says, when he gave Ginsburg a practice exam that was identical to the real one.

When the women’s rights pioneer realized it, and connected it with the professor’s behavior, “I knew exactly what he wanted in return,” Ginsburg said. She also concluded that, rather than giving in or avoiding him, she’d deal with the matter head-on.

“I went to his office and said, ‘How dare you? How dare you do this?'” said Ginsburg, who graduated from Cornell with honors. “And that was the end of that.”  read more

38 Comments on Ruth Bader Ginsburg Shares Her Tales of Harassment

  1. Yeah, she was hot stuff in her youth … that picture of her, naked, on a Mastodon was some risqué stuff.
    And the one of her spearing a Velociraptor made her appear pretty heroic – until you realize that the Velociraptor was Fred Flinstone’s pet.

    izlamo delenda est …

  2. So RBG was a privileged, spoiled, hysterical, angry little shrew even then?
    No surprise.

    So she recounts a tale of receiving unfair advantages on a silver platter, simply because she was female,then tries to claim the Medal For Victimhood?

    Mao or Stalin would have snuffed Coed Ruthie as soon as she started making trouble in her Red Youth cadre.

    I have a nice Moët set aside for the day PDT announces her replacement.
    MAGA!

  3. What, no story about being kidnapped from a wagon train by a band of Apache sexists, who abusively forced her to fetch water, tend fires, scrape deer hides and sleep in the Women’s Hut?

    Maybe Fauxcahantas can help her with that story line.

  4. Oy vey!
    “For erections lasting more than four hours, stare at a photo of Ruth Bladder Ginsburg.”

    One of the few women Bill Clinton didn’t hit on although, when she was younger, she was fairly attractive. Guess that’s what years of Lib-tardism does to you.

  5. The professor made his intentions clear, she says, when he gave Ginsburg a practice exam that was identical to the real one.

    When the women’s rights pioneer realized it, and connected it with the professor’s behavior, “I knew exactly what he wanted in return,” Ginsburg said. She also concluded that, rather than giving in or avoiding him, she’d deal with the matter head-on.

    AND NOW FOR THE REST OF THE STORY – “I went to his office and said, ‘How dare you? How dare you do this?’” said Ginsburg, who graduated from Cornell with honors. “And that was the end of that.” …. “I Then, … in a Huff- handed in the Test and Got My 100% A+; because I Deserved it!”

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