NY Times interview with Justice Ginsburg: A man must do 'more than carry out the garbage'

Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2009-07-09 15:55

Article here. Excerpt:

'Q: In the 1980s, you wrote about how while the sphere for women has widened to include more work, men haven’t taken on as much domestic responsibility. Do you think that things are beginning to change?

JUSTICE GINSBURG: That’s going to take time, changing that kind of culture. But looking at my own family, my daughter Jane teaches at Columbia, she travels all over the world, and she has the most outstanding supportive husband who certainly carries his fair share of the load. Although their division of labor is different than mine and my husband’s, because my daughter is a super cook.

Q: Can courts play a role in changing that culture?

JUSTICE GINSBURG: The Legislature can make the change, can facilitate the change, as laws like the Family Medical Leave Act do. But it’s not something a court can decree. A court can’t tell the man, You’ve got to do more than carry out the garbage.'

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"A court can’t tell the man, You’ve got to do more than carry out the garbage."

Of course not, 'cuz it ain't right to invoke a stereotype like that. Invoking this stereotype is what the media already do 24/7.

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Submitted by Vince on Thu, 2009-07-09 23:55

Time for some more equality.

Tell HER to take out the trash!
Tell HER to change the oil!
Tell HER to mow the lawn!
Tell HER to fix the dryer, washer, (name your appliance).

Of course, a woman would rather pay somebody (with YOUR money) to do these things rather than do it themselves.

oregon dad

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Submitted by oregon dad on Fri, 2009-07-10 00:36

Someone put her in the trash!

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Submitted by anthony on Fri, 2009-07-10 01:35

And

Tell HER to get off her ass and go and check out that strange noise downstairs that startles you both awake in the middle of the night!

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Submitted by Tom on Fri, 2009-07-10 10:15

"A court can’t tell the man, You’ve got to do more than carry out the garbage.'"

Why not, the number of things that are far more stupid than that statement, that courts have told men, is endless?

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Submitted by MR on Fri, 2009-07-10 19:00

manonthestreet

Increasingly courts and the state do indeed intend to control behaviour completely. So judges may well feel themselves entitled to designate who are to be garbage shifters.

The problem is that law is not seen as an expression of commonly help beliefs but a system of rules that the elite can impose on us to make us 'better people'.

In the past those who ruled did so as they claimed that God had chosen them to do so. This gave them an arrogance that made them believe in their own superiority. Today the same happens when people are elected. This, as it where, anoints the elected to be above the rest of us. They don't represent us but rule us.

But the truth they are still just grubby little animals like the rest of us whose shit smells no better than anybody else's.

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Submitted by trotter on Sat, 2009-07-11 08:39