Posted on 01/22/2018 8:19:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has never shied away from speaking out about gender inequality — even back when she was a college student and an instructor acted inappropriately with her, she revealed on Sunday.
"It's about time. For so long women were silent, thinking there was nothing you could do about it, but now the law is on the side of women, or men, who encounter harassment, and that's a good thing," Ginsburg told NPR's Nina Totenberg.
She then recalled a #MeToo moment of her own during the 1950s with a Cornell chemistry instructor from whom she had sought help before a test.
The instructor gave her what he said was a practice exam, Ginsburg said. But when she took the real test the following day, she realized it was identical to the one he had given her.
"And I knew exactly what he wanted in return," Ginsburg said.
But Ginsburg, who would later go on to become a nationally recognized women's rights lawyer and then the second woman ever appointed to the nation's highest court, refused to be intimidated by her instructor.
She said she "went to his office and said: 'How dare you? How dare you do this?' And that was the end of that."
Totenberg, a legal affairs correspondent for NPR and a longtime friend of Ginsburg's, commented that Ginsburg "must have done quite well" on the exam.
"I deliberately made two mistakes," Ginsburg responded with a smile.
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Oh yeah, I’ll bet Buzzy was a real DISH..!
Uh huh.
Yeah. Okay.
I guess Janet Reno took her moment to the grave with her.
Sounds like a very empty claim, what an idiot.
She pretends to be a martyr, riiight.
Wonder who typed it for her?
And it can’t be disproven. How convenient.
I have no problem with this story as an example of how women should deal with a jerk (or what they called a “masher” in rbg’s day).
In fact it is how women should deal with them today — not wait 20 years and then scream “he tried to rape me” which is the new trend.
I hear tell William H. Macy last night said that pretty much every guy in Hollywood is scared sh!tless — not for what they did but what they will be accused of.
So she’s been delusional from the get-go. No specifics on what the guy actually did wrong, only a description what was in her mind as a presumption of motive.
What a great foundation for a legal mind.
“And I knew exactly what he wanted in return,” Ginsburg said.
Maybe, maybe not. Regardless, he did nothing in the way of harrassment.
“The instructor gave her what he said was a practice exam, Ginsburg said. But when she took the real test the following day, she realized it was identical to the one he had given her.”And I knew exactly what he wanted in return,”
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She said she “went to his office and said: ‘How dare you? How dare you do this?’ And that was the end of that.””
So..... She handled the problem then ? Oh, I do that sh!t all the time. #METOO !
She is senile and the old bag is mis-remembering her college fantasy.
I doubt there is any time in history where anyone would hit that with anything but a 2x4. (Laz might be the exception).
(Wait, am I being sexist? Is that a micro-aggression?)
Yeah, who can defend “I knew exactly what he wanted.”
Really, why? What EXACTLY did he say to make you think that?
Um... ew.
Must be an important issue for to wake up and write that.
It doesn’t matter that the teacher did nothing wrong, he might have thought about doing something. Facts are irrelevant.
It's nice to have a psychic on the SC.
#MeToo . . only in your dreams, BaderBabe
But she took the good grade. Who’s the honest one here?
Roll Call of the number of MEN here who have had others “act inappropriately” in a sexual manner to us:
#MeToo
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