Zitat von Rico im Beitrag #1275

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Ohne ihn wäre es kein Kultfilm geworden, trotz Fonda, Bronson und der wunderschönen Italienerin. Der Ton macht die Musik. Der zweite Kultfilm mit klasse Musik war the sting mit Redford und Newman.

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Harry Lime gehört dazu und
der Tango aus Kieszlowski
Französischer Revolution
im weiß.

Obwohl man ihm eine Villa in Hollywood schenken wollte, ist er als Römer seiner Vaterstadt treu geblieben - eben ein somewhere und kein anywhere. Und da sein Englisch schlecht war, sprach er Italienisch. Hätten Berlusconi und Renzi doch nur diese Klugheit besessen...

RIP Ennio Morricone. Thank you for your beautiful music!

https://www.facebook.com/carolineadomeit...63721170988095/

-Caroline Adomeit-

John Lewis ist tot
Gemeinsam mit Martin Luther King kämpfte er für die Bürgerrechte: John Lewis ist im Alter von 80 Jahren gestorben.

Nach schwerer Krankheit ist der US-amerikanische Bürgerrechtler und Politiker John Lewis gestorben. Der demokratische Kongressabgeordnete war für seinen jahrzehntelangen Kampf für die Gleichberechtigung der Schwarzen in den USA bekannt. Er wurde 80 Jahre alt. ...

Lewis war Redner beim legendären Marsch auf Washington, bei dem Martin Luther King Jr. 1963 seine weltberühmte "I have a Dream"-Rede hielt. Im Alter von 23 Jahren stand er damals auf den Stufen des Lincoln Memorials in der Bundeshauptstadt, um gemeinsam mit Martin Luther King (1929-1968) vor mehr als 200.000 Zuhörern ein Ende der rassistischen Diskriminierung in den USA zu fordern. ...
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/j...94-1d2aa2619ba9

My Statement on the Passing of Rep. John Lewis
Barack Obama
https://medium.com/@BarackObama/my-state...is-fa86761cd964

Statement by Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden on the Passing of Congressman John Lewis
Joe Biden
https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/statement-b...dr-45b29170d16c


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdNmfogX0AMv...=jpg&name=small

Flossie Wong-Staal, Who Unlocked Mystery of H.I.V., Dies at 73
A molecular biologist, she helped establish the virus as the cause of AIDS, then cloned it and took it apart to understand how it evades the immune system.

Dr. Wong-Staal was a member of the National Academy of Medicine and was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame last year. Her work was so prolific and influential that the magazine The Scientist named her the most cited female scientist of the 1980s. ...

... In Dr. Gallo’s 1991 book, “Virus Hunting,” Dr. Wong-Staal was quoted as saying: “Working with this virus is like putting your hand in a treasure chest. Every time you put your hand in, you pull out a gem.”

Her virology work is now being deployed in the fight against the novel coronavirus. ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/scien...dies-at-73.html

RIP Olivia de Havilland. Mit ihr und Kirk Douglas sind die letzten Großen aus Hollywood gestorben. Jetzt ist es nur noch eine Ödnis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qaDl0OfIf8

Wer so.lange lebt, den will Gott quälen. Ich war kein Fan von ihm und auch kein Feind, bin dann doch eher mit Club27 verschwägert.

HJ Vogel

Der bekannte Witzeerzähler Fips Asmussen ist heute im Alter von 82 Jahren verstorben :-(

Eines seiner bekanntesten Werke war das Episodenstück " Eine Mütze voller Witze "

RIP

Schorsch Volkert ist tot.
Ein Ansbacher, wenn auch zeitweise nach Hamburg verliehen.

Leb wohl, mei Gudster.

Angesichts der geschichtlichen Tragweite erlaube ich mir eine Ausnahme meiner Zurueckhaltung in diesem Forum ausfuehrlich zu posten. Dies, selbst auf den Vorwurf des Unertraeglichen hin, weil es wieder einmal in einem dieser langen und furchtbaren englischsprachigen Kommentare geschieht, oder dass der eine oder andere sich auch gleich wieder knietief im Schaume stehend waehnen mag. Der nachstehende Nachruf ist fuer mich so angemessen und treffend, er gehoert einfach hier hin. Nichts fuer ungut. Lesen ist ja freiwillig.

Laura Lawless
It’s hard to capture what the death of Hon. Bader Ginsburg means to so many, especially women lawyers like me.
Ruth was small in stature and underestimated for it. She’s every woman who was ever judged for her body and misjudged based on first impressions.
Ruth was bookish and shy, elegant but not conventionally beautiful. She’s every woman who was judged for her looks.
Ruth was smarter than her peers, but never one to boast. She’s every woman who was the smartest in the room but trained not to let anyone know it.
Ruth’s older sister and mother died when she was still young. She’s every woman who learned to be a woman without a mentor to guide her through the process.
Ruth defied every expectation of her era, excelling in high school and leading her class at Cornell, but making it home to cook dinner. She’s every woman who took on more than she should have been able to balance, but made it work anyway.
Ruth accompanied her husband to Fort Sill after graduating from college when he was called to active duty, then demoted from her office job when she became pregnant. She’s every military spouse who has left the known for the unknown, every woman who felt the sting of discrimination for having the audacity to bear a child.
Ruth was accepted to Harvard Law, one of only nine women in a class of 500. She’s every woman who felt alone in a crowd, who wondered if her sisters were allies.
Ruth mothered two children while attending her own and her husband’s classes at Harvard Law, all while caring for him through cancer treatments. She’s every woman who learned there’s no such thing as work-life balance, sleeping through the night, or self-care rituals.
Ruth was ‘quietly outspoken’ in class, dismissed as seeking an MRS degree, and viscerally disliked by her dean. She’s every woman who knew finding her voice and claiming her space would invite disdain.
Ruth was forced to withdraw from Harvard Law when her husband’s job moved the family to another city. She’s every woman who had to sacrifice her goals for the sake of her family.
Ruth graduated with top honors after excelling and making Law Review at two Ivy League law schools but could not find work because she was assumed to be a baby-maker and an unwise investment. She’s every woman who had a door (or 200) shut in her face but persevered in spite of the stereotypes.
Ruth clawed her way through academia and public interest work, led by passion more than self-interest. She’s every woman who was underemployed but turned the challenge into an opportunity.
Ruth fought alongside, and later led, unpopular allies like the ACLU on behalf of unknown clients fighting for unlikable causes: pay equity, gender equality, voting rights, jury participation rights, survivor benefits, with each case chipping away at institutional gender discrimination that pervaded every aspect of American law and life. She’s every woman questioned for her meticulous strategy, for using a chisel instead of a battering ram.
Ruth was often referred to as the ‘Thurgood Marshall of gender equality,’ because even in recognizing a woman’s role in championing woman’s rights, she had to be compared to a man. She’s every woman whose achievements, ideas, or accomplishments were unworthy until sanctified by a man.
Ruth took the bench on the D.C. Circuit alongside titans Bork and Scalia but never lost her own voice in the noise. She’s every woman who had to work twice as hard and speak twice as loudly to be heard half as often.
Ruth was seated on the Supreme Court in 1993 amid cries that her appointment was to appease critics who felt one woman wasn’t enough (perish the thought!) and that her Jewish identity played a role in her nomination. She’s every woman devalued as a mere “diversity hire.”
Ruth was frequently interrupted during oral argument, though she remained methodical and measured in her questioning. Her opinions were clean, crisp, and precise, but pundits attacked them as biased, radical, and agenda-driven, particularly where women’s rights were concerned, because consistently siding with women is, in itself, radical. She’s every woman whose opinion was solicited, then dismissed for being just a woman’s point of view.
Ruth battled cancer and beat it more times than science or faith should allow, quickly returning to work and even attending arguments from her hospital bed, prompting questions about why she didn’t instead spend more time with her family. She’s every woman whose allegiance to her family was questioned because she had the audacity to use the inimitable gifts bestowed on her.

Ruth died and within hours, even before her body had cooled, men who had questioned and judged and doubted her for 87 years planned her replacement, gleefully dancing on the grave she wasn’t yet buried in and envisioning the ways they could undo her life’s work. She’s every woman who feels she did it all for nothing.
But Ruth didn’t do it all for nothing. She lived a life of inestimable accomplishment and in doing so, paved the road for the brilliant women lawyers in my life to follow. For almost 30 years, she protected my right to decide what happens to my body, to be paid what I’m worth, and to enjoy the full rights, benefits, and perquisites of being an American citizen. Her mere existence lowered the hurdles an inch or two for our daughters, and reframed the role of women in our American society for all our children. She dared to suggest that Supreme Court representation would only be fair when there were nine women justices, forcing us all to reflect on the 400 years of complete and utter domination by men of all aspects of public life prior thereto. She learned Swedish and cooked pasta and loved opera and enjoyed red wine and befriended philosophical arch-nemeses and spoke civilly, a dying art if ever there were one.
It’s not just a jurist who passed, but a beacon. So when the questions come, as they already have started, as to why the massive outpouring of tears for Just Another Judge, know that for women of all stripes and denominations, all politics and viewpoints, she was so much more. She’s Blessed Ruth, Patron Saint of Heightened Scrutiny, and she would want us all doing our best to follow in her very tiny footsteps.

Perfekt!

Es wurde sogar ein Film ueber sie gedreht mit dem Titel: "On the Basis of Sex". Nachstehend ein paar clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqA44q1x...l=YouTubeMovies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6jhXgRa...ieclipsTrailers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cmKDpRr...annel=Spotlight

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #1286

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Angesichts der geschichtlichen Tragweite erlaube ich mir eine Ausnahme meiner Zurueckhaltung in diesem Forum ausfuehrlich zu posten. Dies, selbst auf den Vorwurf des Unertraeglichen hin, weil es wieder einmal in einem dieser langen und furchtbaren englischsprachigen Kommentare geschieht, oder dass der eine oder andere sich auch gleich wieder knietief im Schaume stehend waehnen mag. Der nachstehende Nachruf ist fuer mich so angemessen und treffend, er gehoert einfach hier hin. Nichts fuer ungut. Lesen ist ja freiwillig.

Laura Lawless
It’s hard to capture what the death of Hon. Bader Ginsburg means to so many, especially women lawyers like me.
Ruth was small in stature and underestimated for it. She’s every woman who was ever judged for her body and misjudged based on first impressions.
Ruth was bookish and shy, elegant but not conventionally beautiful. She’s every woman who was judged for her looks.
Ruth was smarter than her peers, but never one to boast. She’s every woman who was the smartest in the room but trained not to let anyone know it.
Ruth’s older sister and mother died when she was still young. She’s every woman who learned to be a woman without a mentor to guide her through the process.
Ruth defied every expectation of her era, excelling in high school and leading her class at Cornell, but making it home to cook dinner. She’s every woman who took on more than she should have been able to balance, but made it work anyway.
Ruth accompanied her husband to Fort Sill after graduating from college when he was called to active duty, then demoted from her office job when she became pregnant. She’s every military spouse who has left the known for the unknown, every woman who felt the sting of discrimination for having the audacity to bear a child.
Ruth was accepted to Harvard Law, one of only nine women in a class of 500. She’s every woman who felt alone in a crowd, who wondered if her sisters were allies.
Ruth mothered two children while attending her own and her husband’s classes at Harvard Law, all while caring for him through cancer treatments. She’s every woman who learned there’s no such thing as work-life balance, sleeping through the night, or self-care rituals.
Ruth was ‘quietly outspoken’ in class, dismissed as seeking an MRS degree, and viscerally disliked by her dean. She’s every woman who knew finding her voice and claiming her space would invite disdain.
Ruth was forced to withdraw from Harvard Law when her husband’s job moved the family to another city. She’s every woman who had to sacrifice her goals for the sake of her family.
Ruth graduated with top honors after excelling and making Law Review at two Ivy League law schools but could not find work because she was assumed to be a baby-maker and an unwise investment. She’s every woman who had a door (or 200) shut in her face but persevered in spite of the stereotypes.
Ruth clawed her way through academia and public interest work, led by passion more than self-interest. She’s every woman who was underemployed but turned the challenge into an opportunity.
Ruth fought alongside, and later led, unpopular allies like the ACLU on behalf of unknown clients fighting for unlikable causes: pay equity, gender equality, voting rights, jury participation rights, survivor benefits, with each case chipping away at institutional gender discrimination that pervaded every aspect of American law and life. She’s every woman questioned for her meticulous strategy, for using a chisel instead of a battering ram.
Ruth was often referred to as the ‘Thurgood Marshall of gender equality,’ because even in recognizing a woman’s role in championing woman’s rights, she had to be compared to a man. She’s every woman whose achievements, ideas, or accomplishments were unworthy until sanctified by a man.
Ruth took the bench on the D.C. Circuit alongside titans Bork and Scalia but never lost her own voice in the noise. She’s every woman who had to work twice as hard and speak twice as loudly to be heard half as often.
Ruth was seated on the Supreme Court in 1993 amid cries that her appointment was to appease critics who felt one woman wasn’t enough (perish the thought!) and that her Jewish identity played a role in her nomination. She’s every woman devalued as a mere “diversity hire.”
Ruth was frequently interrupted during oral argument, though she remained methodical and measured in her questioning. Her opinions were clean, crisp, and precise, but pundits attacked them as biased, radical, and agenda-driven, particularly where women’s rights were concerned, because consistently siding with women is, in itself, radical. She’s every woman whose opinion was solicited, then dismissed for being just a woman’s point of view.
Ruth battled cancer and beat it more times than science or faith should allow, quickly returning to work and even attending arguments from her hospital bed, prompting questions about why she didn’t instead spend more time with her family. She’s every woman whose allegiance to her family was questioned because she had the audacity to use the inimitable gifts bestowed on her.

Ruth died and within hours, even before her body had cooled, men who had questioned and judged and doubted her for 87 years planned her replacement, gleefully dancing on the grave she wasn’t yet buried in and envisioning the ways they could undo her life’s work. She’s every woman who feels she did it all for nothing.
But Ruth didn’t do it all for nothing. She lived a life of inestimable accomplishment and in doing so, paved the road for the brilliant women lawyers in my life to follow. For almost 30 years, she protected my right to decide what happens to my body, to be paid what I’m worth, and to enjoy the full rights, benefits, and perquisites of being an American citizen. Her mere existence lowered the hurdles an inch or two for our daughters, and reframed the role of women in our American society for all our children. She dared to suggest that Supreme Court representation would only be fair when there were nine women justices, forcing us all to reflect on the 400 years of complete and utter domination by men of all aspects of public life prior thereto. She learned Swedish and cooked pasta and loved opera and enjoyed red wine and befriended philosophical arch-nemeses and spoke civilly, a dying art if ever there were one.
It’s not just a jurist who passed, but a beacon. So when the questions come, as they already have started, as to why the massive outpouring of tears for Just Another Judge, know that for women of all stripes and denominations, all politics and viewpoints, she was so much more. She’s Blessed Ruth, Patron Saint of Heightened Scrutiny, and she would want us all doing our best to follow in her very tiny footsteps.

Perfekt!

Es wurde sogar ein Film ueber sie gedreht mit dem Titel: "On the Basis of Sex". Nachstehend ein paar clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqA44q1x...l=YouTubeMovies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6jhXgRa...ieclipsTrailers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cmKDpRr...annel=Spotlight

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #1287

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #1286

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Angesichts der geschichtlichen Tragweite erlaube ich mir eine Ausnahme meiner Zurueckhaltung in diesem Forum ausfuehrlich zu posten. Dies, selbst auf den Vorwurf des Unertraeglichen hin, weil es wieder einmal in einem dieser langen und furchtbaren englischsprachigen Kommentare geschieht, oder dass der eine oder andere sich auch gleich wieder knietief im Schaume stehend waehnen mag. Der nachstehende Nachruf ist fuer mich so angemessen und treffend, er gehoert einfach hier hin. Nichts fuer ungut. Lesen ist ja freiwillig.

Laura Lawless
It’s hard to capture what the death of Hon. Bader Ginsburg means to so many, especially women lawyers like me.
Ruth was small in stature and underestimated for it. She’s every woman who was ever judged for her body and misjudged based on first impressions.
Ruth was bookish and shy, elegant but not conventionally beautiful. She’s every woman who was judged for her looks.
Ruth was smarter than her peers, but never one to boast. She’s every woman who was the smartest in the room but trained not to let anyone know it.
Ruth’s older sister and mother died when she was still young. She’s every woman who learned to be a woman without a mentor to guide her through the process.
Ruth defied every expectation of her era, excelling in high school and leading her class at Cornell, but making it home to cook dinner. She’s every woman who took on more than she should have been able to balance, but made it work anyway.
Ruth accompanied her husband to Fort Sill after graduating from college when he was called to active duty, then demoted from her office job when she became pregnant. She’s every military spouse who has left the known for the unknown, every woman who felt the sting of discrimination for having the audacity to bear a child.
Ruth was accepted to Harvard Law, one of only nine women in a class of 500. She’s every woman who felt alone in a crowd, who wondered if her sisters were allies.
Ruth mothered two children while attending her own and her husband’s classes at Harvard Law, all while caring for him through cancer treatments. She’s every woman who learned there’s no such thing as work-life balance, sleeping through the night, or self-care rituals.
Ruth was ‘quietly outspoken’ in class, dismissed as seeking an MRS degree, and viscerally disliked by her dean. She’s every woman who knew finding her voice and claiming her space would invite disdain.
Ruth was forced to withdraw from Harvard Law when her husband’s job moved the family to another city. She’s every woman who had to sacrifice her goals for the sake of her family.
Ruth graduated with top honors after excelling and making Law Review at two Ivy League law schools but could not find work because she was assumed to be a baby-maker and an unwise investment. She’s every woman who had a door (or 200) shut in her face but persevered in spite of the stereotypes.
Ruth clawed her way through academia and public interest work, led by passion more than self-interest. She’s every woman who was underemployed but turned the challenge into an opportunity.
Ruth fought alongside, and later led, unpopular allies like the ACLU on behalf of unknown clients fighting for unlikable causes: pay equity, gender equality, voting rights, jury participation rights, survivor benefits, with each case chipping away at institutional gender discrimination that pervaded every aspect of American law and life. She’s every woman questioned for her meticulous strategy, for using a chisel instead of a battering ram.
Ruth was often referred to as the ‘Thurgood Marshall of gender equality,’ because even in recognizing a woman’s role in championing woman’s rights, she had to be compared to a man. She’s every woman whose achievements, ideas, or accomplishments were unworthy until sanctified by a man.
Ruth took the bench on the D.C. Circuit alongside titans Bork and Scalia but never lost her own voice in the noise. She’s every woman who had to work twice as hard and speak twice as loudly to be heard half as often.
Ruth was seated on the Supreme Court in 1993 amid cries that her appointment was to appease critics who felt one woman wasn’t enough (perish the thought!) and that her Jewish identity played a role in her nomination. She’s every woman devalued as a mere “diversity hire.”
Ruth was frequently interrupted during oral argument, though she remained methodical and measured in her questioning. Her opinions were clean, crisp, and precise, but pundits attacked them as biased, radical, and agenda-driven, particularly where women’s rights were concerned, because consistently siding with women is, in itself, radical. She’s every woman whose opinion was solicited, then dismissed for being just a woman’s point of view.
Ruth battled cancer and beat it more times than science or faith should allow, quickly returning to work and even attending arguments from her hospital bed, prompting questions about why she didn’t instead spend more time with her family. She’s every woman whose allegiance to her family was questioned because she had the audacity to use the inimitable gifts bestowed on her.

Ruth died and within hours, even before her body had cooled, men who had questioned and judged and doubted her for 87 years planned her replacement, gleefully dancing on the grave she wasn’t yet buried in and envisioning the ways they could undo her life’s work. She’s every woman who feels she did it all for nothing.
But Ruth didn’t do it all for nothing. She lived a life of inestimable accomplishment and in doing so, paved the road for the brilliant women lawyers in my life to follow. For almost 30 years, she protected my right to decide what happens to my body, to be paid what I’m worth, and to enjoy the full rights, benefits, and perquisites of being an American citizen. Her mere existence lowered the hurdles an inch or two for our daughters, and reframed the role of women in our American society for all our children. She dared to suggest that Supreme Court representation would only be fair when there were nine women justices, forcing us all to reflect on the 400 years of complete and utter domination by men of all aspects of public life prior thereto. She learned Swedish and cooked pasta and loved opera and enjoyed red wine and befriended philosophical arch-nemeses and spoke civilly, a dying art if ever there were one.
It’s not just a jurist who passed, but a beacon. So when the questions come, as they already have started, as to why the massive outpouring of tears for Just Another Judge, know that for women of all stripes and denominations, all politics and viewpoints, she was so much more. She’s Blessed Ruth, Patron Saint of Heightened Scrutiny, and she would want us all doing our best to follow in her very tiny footsteps.

Perfekt!

Es wurde sogar ein Film ueber sie gedreht mit dem Titel: "On the Basis of Sex". Nachstehend ein paar clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqA44q1x...l=YouTubeMovies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6jhXgRa...ieclipsTrailers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cmKDpRr...annel=Spotlight

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Möge sie in Frieden ruhen.

Was die Vorwürfe gegen die Männer angeht, die bereits jetzt planen, wer sie ersetzen soll - so ist Politik eben, ob es uns gefällt oder nicht (und da gibt es zwischen Dims und Reps keinen Unterschied). In Italien gibt es dafür ein Sprichwort: "Morto un papa, se ne fa un altro." (Wenn ein Papst stirbt, macht man einen neuen.)

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #1287

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: "Morto un papa, se ne fa un altro." (Wenn ein Papst stirbt, macht man einen neuen.)

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #1288

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #1287

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #1286

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Angesichts der geschichtlichen Tragweite erlaube ich mir eine Ausnahme meiner Zurueckhaltung in diesem Forum ausfuehrlich zu posten. Dies, selbst auf den Vorwurf des Unertraeglichen hin, weil es wieder einmal in einem dieser langen und furchtbaren englischsprachigen Kommentare geschieht, oder dass der eine oder andere sich auch gleich wieder knietief im Schaume stehend waehnen mag. Der nachstehende Nachruf ist fuer mich so angemessen und treffend, er gehoert einfach hier hin. Nichts fuer ungut. Lesen ist ja freiwillig.

Laura Lawless
It’s hard to capture what the death of Hon. Bader Ginsburg means to so many, especially women lawyers like me.
Ruth was small in stature and underestimated for it. She’s every woman who was ever judged for her body and misjudged based on first impressions.
Ruth was bookish and shy, elegant but not conventionally beautiful. She’s every woman who was judged for her looks.
Ruth was smarter than her peers, but never one to boast. She’s every woman who was the smartest in the room but trained not to let anyone know it.
Ruth’s older sister and mother died when she was still young. She’s every woman who learned to be a woman without a mentor to guide her through the process.
Ruth defied every expectation of her era, excelling in high school and leading her class at Cornell, but making it home to cook dinner. She’s every woman who took on more than she should have been able to balance, but made it work anyway.
Ruth accompanied her husband to Fort Sill after graduating from college when he was called to active duty, then demoted from her office job when she became pregnant. She’s every military spouse who has left the known for the unknown, every woman who felt the sting of discrimination for having the audacity to bear a child.
Ruth was accepted to Harvard Law, one of only nine women in a class of 500. She’s every woman who felt alone in a crowd, who wondered if her sisters were allies.
Ruth mothered two children while attending her own and her husband’s classes at Harvard Law, all while caring for him through cancer treatments. She’s every woman who learned there’s no such thing as work-life balance, sleeping through the night, or self-care rituals.
Ruth was ‘quietly outspoken’ in class, dismissed as seeking an MRS degree, and viscerally disliked by her dean. She’s every woman who knew finding her voice and claiming her space would invite disdain.
Ruth was forced to withdraw from Harvard Law when her husband’s job moved the family to another city. She’s every woman who had to sacrifice her goals for the sake of her family.
Ruth graduated with top honors after excelling and making Law Review at two Ivy League law schools but could not find work because she was assumed to be a baby-maker and an unwise investment. She’s every woman who had a door (or 200) shut in her face but persevered in spite of the stereotypes.
Ruth clawed her way through academia and public interest work, led by passion more than self-interest. She’s every woman who was underemployed but turned the challenge into an opportunity.
Ruth fought alongside, and later led, unpopular allies like the ACLU on behalf of unknown clients fighting for unlikable causes: pay equity, gender equality, voting rights, jury participation rights, survivor benefits, with each case chipping away at institutional gender discrimination that pervaded every aspect of American law and life. She’s every woman questioned for her meticulous strategy, for using a chisel instead of a battering ram.
Ruth was often referred to as the ‘Thurgood Marshall of gender equality,’ because even in recognizing a woman’s role in championing woman’s rights, she had to be compared to a man. She’s every woman whose achievements, ideas, or accomplishments were unworthy until sanctified by a man.
Ruth took the bench on the D.C. Circuit alongside titans Bork and Scalia but never lost her own voice in the noise. She’s every woman who had to work twice as hard and speak twice as loudly to be heard half as often.
Ruth was seated on the Supreme Court in 1993 amid cries that her appointment was to appease critics who felt one woman wasn’t enough (perish the thought!) and that her Jewish identity played a role in her nomination. She’s every woman devalued as a mere “diversity hire.”
Ruth was frequently interrupted during oral argument, though she remained methodical and measured in her questioning. Her opinions were clean, crisp, and precise, but pundits attacked them as biased, radical, and agenda-driven, particularly where women’s rights were concerned, because consistently siding with women is, in itself, radical. She’s every woman whose opinion was solicited, then dismissed for being just a woman’s point of view.
Ruth battled cancer and beat it more times than science or faith should allow, quickly returning to work and even attending arguments from her hospital bed, prompting questions about why she didn’t instead spend more time with her family. She’s every woman whose allegiance to her family was questioned because she had the audacity to use the inimitable gifts bestowed on her.

Ruth died and within hours, even before her body had cooled, men who had questioned and judged and doubted her for 87 years planned her replacement, gleefully dancing on the grave she wasn’t yet buried in and envisioning the ways they could undo her life’s work. She’s every woman who feels she did it all for nothing.
But Ruth didn’t do it all for nothing. She lived a life of inestimable accomplishment and in doing so, paved the road for the brilliant women lawyers in my life to follow. For almost 30 years, she protected my right to decide what happens to my body, to be paid what I’m worth, and to enjoy the full rights, benefits, and perquisites of being an American citizen. Her mere existence lowered the hurdles an inch or two for our daughters, and reframed the role of women in our American society for all our children. She dared to suggest that Supreme Court representation would only be fair when there were nine women justices, forcing us all to reflect on the 400 years of complete and utter domination by men of all aspects of public life prior thereto. She learned Swedish and cooked pasta and loved opera and enjoyed red wine and befriended philosophical arch-nemeses and spoke civilly, a dying art if ever there were one.
It’s not just a jurist who passed, but a beacon. So when the questions come, as they already have started, as to why the massive outpouring of tears for Just Another Judge, know that for women of all stripes and denominations, all politics and viewpoints, she was so much more. She’s Blessed Ruth, Patron Saint of Heightened Scrutiny, and she would want us all doing our best to follow in her very tiny footsteps.

Perfekt!

Es wurde sogar ein Film ueber sie gedreht mit dem Titel: "On the Basis of Sex". Nachstehend ein paar clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqA44q1x...l=YouTubeMovies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6jhXgRa...ieclipsTrailers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cmKDpRr...annel=Spotlight

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Möge sie in Frieden ruhen.

Was die Vorwürfe gegen die Männer angeht, die bereits jetzt planen, wer sie ersetzen soll - so ist Politik eben, ob es uns gefällt oder nicht (und da gibt es zwischen Dims und Reps keinen Unterschied). In Italien gibt es dafür ein Sprichwort: "Morto un papa, se ne fa un altro." (Wenn ein Papst stirbt, macht man einen neuen.)

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Man fragt sich, wer die Autorin damit meint?
Hillary, Schumer, Hirono ?

Oder sogar diesen:
"Obama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election"

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Ich gestehe, mein Bild von weiblichen Juristen ist Note 6-
Ok, nur 5 Erfahrungen.

One of the “Most Activist Judges We Have Right Now”
https://lawliberty.org/one-of-the-most-a...VD_gE0i1luRslVg

Eine sehr kritische Betrachtung. Wahrscheinlich sollte man sich mehr Richter wie Alito wünschen, aber über wirklich unabhängige Geister wird bestimmt kein Film gedreht.

"A Jewish teaching says those who die just before the Jewish new year are the ones God has held back until the last moment bc they were needed most and were the most righteous.
And so it was that RBG died as the sun was setting last night marking the beginning of RoshHashanah."
Nina Totenberg
(NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent
and personal friend of RBG)

Lassen wir mal den Politkitsch, der mit Würdigungen von Verstorbenen nichts zu tun hat.

Trump hat versprochen, bald eine Frau für den Supreme Court zu nominieren. (Natürlich wird er die Forderungen der Dims nicht beherzigen. Warum sollte er auch?) Vielleicht diese Frau, eine gläubige Katholikin, 48 Jahre alt, die vielleicht für die nächsten 40 Jahre im Supreme Court sitzen wird. That would drive 'em crazy. :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Coney_Barrett

Sie sah auch aus, als hätte sie abgetrieben. Vielleicht diente ihr politisches Wirken der Kompensation.

Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #1291

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #1288

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #1287

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #1286

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Angesichts der geschichtlichen Tragweite erlaube ich mir eine Ausnahme meiner Zurueckhaltung in diesem Forum ausfuehrlich zu posten. Dies, selbst auf den Vorwurf des Unertraeglichen hin, weil es wieder einmal in einem dieser langen und furchtbaren englischsprachigen Kommentare geschieht, oder dass der eine oder andere sich auch gleich wieder knietief im Schaume stehend waehnen mag. Der nachstehende Nachruf ist fuer mich so angemessen und treffend, er gehoert einfach hier hin. Nichts fuer ungut. Lesen ist ja freiwillig.

Laura Lawless
It’s hard to capture what the death of Hon. Bader Ginsburg means to so many, especially women lawyers like me.
Ruth was small in stature and underestimated for it. She’s every woman who was ever judged for her body and misjudged based on first impressions.
Ruth was bookish and shy, elegant but not conventionally beautiful. She’s every woman who was judged for her looks.
Ruth was smarter than her peers, but never one to boast. She’s every woman who was the smartest in the room but trained not to let anyone know it.
Ruth’s older sister and mother died when she was still young. She’s every woman who learned to be a woman without a mentor to guide her through the process.
Ruth defied every expectation of her era, excelling in high school and leading her class at Cornell, but making it home to cook dinner. She’s every woman who took on more than she should have been able to balance, but made it work anyway.
Ruth accompanied her husband to Fort Sill after graduating from college when he was called to active duty, then demoted from her office job when she became pregnant. She’s every military spouse who has left the known for the unknown, every woman who felt the sting of discrimination for having the audacity to bear a child.
Ruth was accepted to Harvard Law, one of only nine women in a class of 500. She’s every woman who felt alone in a crowd, who wondered if her sisters were allies.
Ruth mothered two children while attending her own and her husband’s classes at Harvard Law, all while caring for him through cancer treatments. She’s every woman who learned there’s no such thing as work-life balance, sleeping through the night, or self-care rituals.
Ruth was ‘quietly outspoken’ in class, dismissed as seeking an MRS degree, and viscerally disliked by her dean. She’s every woman who knew finding her voice and claiming her space would invite disdain.
Ruth was forced to withdraw from Harvard Law when her husband’s job moved the family to another city. She’s every woman who had to sacrifice her goals for the sake of her family.
Ruth graduated with top honors after excelling and making Law Review at two Ivy League law schools but could not find work because she was assumed to be a baby-maker and an unwise investment. She’s every woman who had a door (or 200) shut in her face but persevered in spite of the stereotypes.
Ruth clawed her way through academia and public interest work, led by passion more than self-interest. She’s every woman who was underemployed but turned the challenge into an opportunity.
Ruth fought alongside, and later led, unpopular allies like the ACLU on behalf of unknown clients fighting for unlikable causes: pay equity, gender equality, voting rights, jury participation rights, survivor benefits, with each case chipping away at institutional gender discrimination that pervaded every aspect of American law and life. She’s every woman questioned for her meticulous strategy, for using a chisel instead of a battering ram.
Ruth was often referred to as the ‘Thurgood Marshall of gender equality,’ because even in recognizing a woman’s role in championing woman’s rights, she had to be compared to a man. She’s every woman whose achievements, ideas, or accomplishments were unworthy until sanctified by a man.
Ruth took the bench on the D.C. Circuit alongside titans Bork and Scalia but never lost her own voice in the noise. She’s every woman who had to work twice as hard and speak twice as loudly to be heard half as often.
Ruth was seated on the Supreme Court in 1993 amid cries that her appointment was to appease critics who felt one woman wasn’t enough (perish the thought!) and that her Jewish identity played a role in her nomination. She’s every woman devalued as a mere “diversity hire.”
Ruth was frequently interrupted during oral argument, though she remained methodical and measured in her questioning. Her opinions were clean, crisp, and precise, but pundits attacked them as biased, radical, and agenda-driven, particularly where women’s rights were concerned, because consistently siding with women is, in itself, radical. She’s every woman whose opinion was solicited, then dismissed for being just a woman’s point of view.
Ruth battled cancer and beat it more times than science or faith should allow, quickly returning to work and even attending arguments from her hospital bed, prompting questions about why she didn’t instead spend more time with her family. She’s every woman whose allegiance to her family was questioned because she had the audacity to use the inimitable gifts bestowed on her.

Ruth died and within hours, even before her body had cooled, men who had questioned and judged and doubted her for 87 years planned her replacement, gleefully dancing on the grave she wasn’t yet buried in and envisioning the ways they could undo her life’s work. She’s every woman who feels she did it all for nothing.
But Ruth didn’t do it all for nothing. She lived a life of inestimable accomplishment and in doing so, paved the road for the brilliant women lawyers in my life to follow. For almost 30 years, she protected my right to decide what happens to my body, to be paid what I’m worth, and to enjoy the full rights, benefits, and perquisites of being an American citizen. Her mere existence lowered the hurdles an inch or two for our daughters, and reframed the role of women in our American society for all our children. She dared to suggest that Supreme Court representation would only be fair when there were nine women justices, forcing us all to reflect on the 400 years of complete and utter domination by men of all aspects of public life prior thereto. She learned Swedish and cooked pasta and loved opera and enjoyed red wine and befriended philosophical arch-nemeses and spoke civilly, a dying art if ever there were one.
It’s not just a jurist who passed, but a beacon. So when the questions come, as they already have started, as to why the massive outpouring of tears for Just Another Judge, know that for women of all stripes and denominations, all politics and viewpoints, she was so much more. She’s Blessed Ruth, Patron Saint of Heightened Scrutiny, and she would want us all doing our best to follow in her very tiny footsteps.

Perfekt!

Es wurde sogar ein Film ueber sie gedreht mit dem Titel: "On the Basis of Sex". Nachstehend ein paar clips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqA44q1x...l=YouTubeMovies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6jhXgRa...ieclipsTrailers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cmKDpRr...annel=Spotlight

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Möge sie in Frieden ruhen.

Was die Vorwürfe gegen die Männer angeht, die bereits jetzt planen, wer sie ersetzen soll - so ist Politik eben, ob es uns gefällt oder nicht (und da gibt es zwischen Dims und Reps keinen Unterschied). In Italien gibt es dafür ein Sprichwort: "Morto un papa, se ne fa un altro." (Wenn ein Papst stirbt, macht man einen neuen.)

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Man fragt sich, wer die Autorin damit meint?
Hillary, Schumer, Hirono ?

Oder sogar diesen:
"Obama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election"

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"Blessed Ruth"... Das ist schon keine normale Würdigung mehr, sondern Kitsch.

"Choosing not to fill a vacancy would be a historically unprecedented act of unilateral disarmament. It has never happened once in all of American history. There is no chance that the Democrats, in the same position, would ever reciprocate, as their own history illustrates."
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/h...CKG_2gime-hIGto

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Zitat von Rico im Beitrag #1296

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Sie sah auch aus, als hätte sie abgetrieben. Vielleicht diente ihr politisches Wirken der Kompensation.

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Heute morgen auf DLF.
Obama hatte wohl kurz vor der Wahl einst auch noch einen gleichgerichteten Richter neu besetzen wollen.
Interessanterweise gab es darüber nicht so viel Pressegedöns in Deutschland wie jetzt.
Warum lässt man nicht einfach die Deutschen abstimmen, wer in den USA regieren soll,
so wie es sich gehört?
Und dann gleich noch in Russland, der Türkei, Polen, Ungarn.
So, wie es sich gehört.

Zitat von Marlies im Beitrag #1299

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Heute morgen auf DLF.
Obama hatte wohl kurz vor der Wahl einst auch noch einen gleichgerichteten Richter neu besetzen wollen.
Interessanterweise gab es darüber nicht so viel Pressegedöns in Deutschland wie jetzt.
Warum lässt man nicht einfach die Deutschen abstimmen, wer in den USA regieren soll,
so wie es sich gehört?
Und dann gleich noch in Russland, der Türkei, Polen, Ungarn.
So, wie es sich gehört.

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