Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she likes how she’s portrayed on “Saturday Night Live.”
“I like the actress who portrayed me,” Ginsburg said at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, where a documentary about her debuted. The film crew of the documentary “RBG” showed Ginsburg an SNL clip of comedian Kate McKinnon portraying her on the show.
“And I would like to say ‘Gins-burned’ sometimes to my colleagues,” the 84-year-old justice said referring to the catchphrase used by McKinnon.
The Supreme Court justice also talked about sexual harassment and the rise of the #MeToo movement.
When asked by NPR host Nina Totenberg whether she was subject to inappropriate behavior when she was younger, Ginsburg said, “Yes. Every woman of my vintage knows what sexual harassment is, although we didn’t have a name for it.”
“The attitude to sexual harassment was simply ‘get past it. Boys will be boys.'” “This was not considered anything you could do anything about, that the law could do anything about,” she said.
When Totenberg asked Ginsburg about the #MeToo movement, she said, “It’s about time.”
“For long women were silent, thinking there was nothing you could do about it,” she said. “But now the law is on the side of women or men who encounter harassment. And that’s a good thing.”
“So far, it’s been great,” Ginsburg said when asked if she was worried about a backlash against women of the #MeToo movement. “But when I see women appearing everyplace in numbers, I’m less worried about backlash than I might have been 20 years ago.”
