Julia Longoria
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130 appearances
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3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Because when legislatures would come up with these laws, like this women can't be bartenders law, the Supreme Court would be like, you know... You guys probably have a good reason for that.
Like in the case of the bartender's law, bars are dangerous. Women need more protection. And courts would be like, OK, sure. So RBG needed a way to convince the court to be as intense about sex discrimination as they were about race discrimination. But how do you convince an audience of men who are used to discriminating on the basis of sex, who've been doing it for years?
How do you convince them that discrimination is a bad thing?
This is her giving a recent talk about her 1970s strategy.
Because you know, the word sex has a charge to it. Gender is cooler. And part two of her strategy, choose your cases carefully. This is all happening in the 70s when RBG is the head of the ACLU Women's Rights Project. So she's deciding which kinds of cases the ACLU is going to support as they make their way to an all-male Supreme Court.
And her strategy was, if we live in a man's world right now, we need to find cases that nine men at this moment can handle.
is the right approach. She said, first, we need to go after that small and insidious idea that the Supreme Court had been keeping alive for years.
That Phyllis Schlafly idea that discrimination is actually good for women.
And so, RPG decided not just to bring cases where women were the victims of discrimination.
She brought cases where men were the victims. Who were you as an 18-year-old?
He made it into Lambda Chi Alpha at Oklahoma State, and he was living at the frat house.
What do you mean? Like an indentation literally in the wall or like the dirt?
If they wanted to get all that beer, They had to enlist the help of the ladies. You know, the sorority sisters.
Yep.
The basic principle was that boys got into more car accidents, so they should be trusted with less beer? Huh. Did that make you angry?
And a Supreme Court case was born.
Well, this is where her strategy is kind of like a Trojan horse. If you look at this case, right, on the outside, it looks like a case about men being discriminated against. But if you think about it... Beneath that discrimination is actually this kind of unspoken idea about women. So go with me on this, right?
If men are irresponsible, they can't handle beer, then women... Girls are more responsible and well-behaved. more delicate. They could be trusted with something like beer because they won't abuse it, you know? So with that line of thinking, it's not long before you're trying to protect women, protect them from, you know, scary places like bars or courtrooms or political office. Using this case,
RBG is able to walk into the court this discrimination about men, but also the discrimination against women that's attached to it or inside of it.
We're just getting started.
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