More Perfect: Sex Appeal

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🗓️ 19 September 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In 2017 our sister show, More Perfect aired an episode all about RBG, In September of 2020, we lost Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the annals of history. She was 87. Given the atmosphere around reproductive rights, gender and law, we decided to re-air this More Perfect episode dedicated to one of her cases. Because it offers a unique portrait of how one person can make change in the world. This is the story of how Ginsburg, as a young lawyer at the ACLU, convinced an all-male Supreme Court to take discrimination against women seriously - using a case on discrimination against men. Special thanks to Stephen Wiesenfeld, Alison Keith, and Bob Darcy. Supreme Court archival audio comes from Oyez®, a free law project in collaboration with the Legal Information Institute at Cornell. EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by - Julia LongoriaProduced by - Julia Longoria Original music and sound design contributed by - Alex Overington Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org.Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Chad, this is Radio Lab tonight.
0:03.4	We lost the legend.
0:06.2	Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.
0:09.4	She was 87.
0:13.1	That's a lot to think about.
0:16.1	A few years ago, Radio Lab created a spin-off series
0:19.6	more perfect about Supreme Court.
0:21.2	And in one episode, we told a story about RBG that has,
0:26.0	um, it stuck with me.
0:29.4	I think it's a story we should all listen to right now,
0:32.6	because it's, um, it's a sort of a snapshot of how one person
0:37.7	can make change in the world.
0:39.7	In memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we wanted to re-release it for you again
0:43.7	tonight. It comes to you from producer Julia Longoria.
0:48.6	I'm going to ask you an utterly false question, which is, where would you like to start?
0:51.3	As if we haven't been doing this for so damn long.
0:56.9	Okay.
0:57.9	So let me outline the basic dilemma that's at the heart of the story here.
1:03.4	And I'm going to put it to you as a question.
1:05.9	Bring it.
1:06.6	If you were to do a control F in the Constitution, like how many times do you think the word
1:11.8	sex comes up?
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