More Perfect: Sex Appeal

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Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

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🗓️ 19 September 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We lost a legend. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18th, 2020. She was 87. In honor of her passing we are re-airing the 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.

This episode was reported by Julia Longoria.

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.

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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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