Ruthie discovers where Chief Justice Roberts got his Obamacare ruling.
Posted on 09/15/2018 12:34:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The documentary film RBG, in theaters May 4, portrays Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a hard-nosed workaholic with more than a few wins for women's rights under her jabot. But it also highlights, rather pointedly, her influence on The Youths. In several scenes, fawning would-be attorneys run up to her to ask for her autograph or take a selfie.
The adoration has extended to pop culture, and the film makes a mountain out of things the sober Supreme Court Justice hasn't historically paid a whole lot of attention to: memes (obviously, Notorious RBG), SNL, and most certainly not tattoos.
While flattered by superfans who get tattoos of her face, the 85-year-old has also said she was "a little distressed that people are really doing that." It's permanent. She's more traditional than that. But this hasn't stopped people from commemorating her with ink.
Amy Wallace, a 34-year-old attorney in Minneapolis, got a Rosie the Riveter-inspired RBG sleeve last year, which had a blink-or-you'll-miss-it cameo in the new film. "Justice Ginsburg is my only personal hero, and as an atheist, my adoration of her is the closest thing I get to personal worship," she told Refinery29. "The secular iconography of Rosie the Riveter mashed up with Justice Ginsburg seemed like a perfect articulation of the way I feel about her." The idea for it came after seeing someone else's tattoo of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a modern, feminist twist (A.K.A. standing inside a vulva instead of surrounded by a religious halo).
Wallace met Justice Ginsburg when she visited the University of Minnesota for a talk in October 2014. "The other clerk in the office I was working in at the time was salty about being required to go to the event — he said he wasn't interested because it wasn't Justice [Antonin] Scalia, and gave me his ticket."
"I couldn't believe his bad taste or my good fortune," she added. "When I met her, I was so overawed by her presence that I burst into tears before I could even get a word out."
As a woman who was putting herself through law school at night and working full-time, Wallace said she could relate to Justice Ginsburg. The new documentary details how RBG excelled in law school while taking care of both her young daughter and her husband Marty, who was diagnosed with testicular cancer. She would stay up almost all night, helping him with his own law-school coursework, and get about two hours of sleep. "I felt a kinship with her as a fellow second-shift sister," Wallace said.
But the biggest reason she idolizes the justice is her fearless, groundbreaking work. "I love her not only for her feminist jurisprudence, but also for the quiet influence she's had privately with all those straight, white, rich dudes who’ve rotated through the court over the years," she said. "Heaven help us if she’d never been on the bench."
Wallace is not the only fan of the justice to depict her in permanent ink. Jasmine Wardle, a 24-year-old working on her Master's in public health in Salt Lake City, sports a sleeve of a younger RBG, perhaps during her attorney days with the ACLU, with soft brown curls and big blue eyes.
Underneath the tattoo, it says, "I dissent," referring to the justice's increasing number of dissenting opinions in her later years on the Supreme Court. Wardle said she chose the young RBG because she wanted to "honor the woman who worked her ass off to get to the Supreme Court and everything she had to do to get there."
"RBG is an idol of mine," Wardle, a Planned Parenthood volunteer and sex educator, told Refinery29. "Her dedication to equal rights inspires me. Fighting for reproductive justice and sex education in a state as conservative as Utah is tough, but she reminds me to keep fighting for what I believe in."
Wallace and Wardle's tattoos have a serious, defiant tone, but Lexi Parkhurst, a 20-year-old college student in Melbourne, FL, decided to go the more humorous route for hers. (For the record, Wardle and Parkhurst's tattoos weren't featured in the film.)
"I wanted to dedicate something to someone who has done so much for the good of the people, and women especially," Parkhurst told Refinery29. "So the crown? Biggie Smalls! [Ed. note: She's referring to the iconic 1997 photo of the Notorious B.I.G.] It had to make an appearance in the piece, and who else would rock that crown other than the Notorious RBG?" The glass of red wine? That's an homage to the justice admitting "I wasn't 100% sober" after catching some ZZZs at the 2015 State of the Union. (Respect.)
Undoubtedly part of the reason to tattoo RBG is is the desire to keep her alive longer, because even though she has said she's not retiring anytime soon, the "flaming feminist litigator" is in her 80s. As someone who has helped create the ACLU Women's Rights Project and pushed for women's equality her entire career, she's someone whom feminists need as a thorn in Trump's side for as long as she is up to the task. Coupled with her unexpected zeitgeisty coolness, it's not hard to see why people are letting her get under their skin.
I was in a nursing home for about five months after my leg amputation and most of the residents looked healthier than her.
An RBG tat and a Che t shirt! The perfect combo!!
Lots of women have sworn off men and do not ever want a husband. What better way to tell anyone with more testosterone than pajama boy to run?
A former phb-ette is very likely to fit that description.
How anyone married that hag twice is beyond me.
...Why Some Women Are Getting Tattoos Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Face...
Because they want a tattoo that won’t wrinkle much more as they get older?
Might as well get a tattoo of Willie Nelson with his teeth out surrounding their front hole.
Could have chosen HRC as Pete did.
https://people.com/politics/pete-davidson-hillary-clinton-tattoo/
To keep men away! The simple answer.
I’m thinking of getting a tattoo of Keith Richards.......
What’s funny is that I don’t think Ginsburg cares much for the modern left, including the type of person who works for Planned Parenthood. Just look at what she said about recently about the Kavanaugh confirmation process, the Kaepernick stuff,
I wonder if Ms. planned Parenthood remembers that NARAL had a real problem with Ginsburg’s nomination because they thought she was insufficiently pro-abortion. She had suggested in a lecture it would have been better had the Court limited the holding in Roe to just striking down the Texas abortion law—which criminalized all non-life-saving abortions—rather than creating a blanket right to an abortion. She would probably be called a Nazi if she said that today.
A woman goes into a tattoo parlor and says “I
want a tattoo of ELVIS on the inside of my right
thigh.”
The artist says “No Problem, get undressed and
lay on the table.” When he is done, he says “So,
what do you think?”
She replies,” That doesn’t look like ELVIS at
all! I want you to do it over on the inside of
my left thigh” The artist agrees and when
finished, asks for her to appraise his work.
“DAMMIT,..not only does that not look like ELVIS,
it looks just like the tattoo on my other thigh!”
Calmly the artist asks her if she would like a
second opinion and he walks outside and grabs
the first person he sees...a drunk. He brings
him back inside, shoves his face between her
legs and says, “I want you to look at these two
tattoos and tell me who it is?” The drunk looks
at one tattoo, then the other, and exclaims,
“Well...I don’t know about the twins, but
that’s WILLIE NELSON in the middle!”
If they’ve “sworn off men,” why are they so hyped about abortion?
As if we needed any more evidence that liberals are psychopaths.
Bloodthirsty and evil.
If you showed me that tattoo with no context and asked me who it was, I wouldn’t know. That does not look like Hilly. Maybe if the clothing was the tablecloth she was wearing recently, I might recognize the fabric pattern OR if it was a full length Hilly tattoo where you could see the outfit was a pantsuit & the famous cankles were on display, then I might have said ‘Hilly’. What a LOSER tattoo.
Another example of “Things I will regret later in life”
Ruthie discovers where Chief Justice Roberts got his Obamacare ruling.
I see so many women festooned with garish tattoos, some to the point where I suspect a mental illness is involved , so unsightly, unattractive and simply whorish.
Don’t they mean Top of Head tattoo?
people forget as they gain weight and get wrinkled, tattoos turn into undecipherable mosaics.
Imagine picking a babe up at the bar and getting down to it a finding that tattoo. That’s why I’m glad I don’t drink anymore.
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