This is an important documentary to help us understand the bedrock shifts that have layed the foundation for our current cultural ideals and values. I sought out this documentary on the recommendation of other audience members of the film ON THE BASIS OF SEX. I watched it, today, as background for the review I am writing of that movie, which I saw last night. Although I am 20 years younger than RBG, her litigational years were my culturally maturing years (college, university and entering the work force). I lived in the culture of those years, her years, and would have thought I knew the seminole personalities of my time. I had never heard of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Indeed, until these past two years (in which she has gained a rock-star like celebrity) I had no idea of her influence on my life. This documentary and the movie have now convinced me that I would not have been allowed to be the person I have become had she not addressed the legal restrictions of gender in the United States that undermined a global sense of personhood. I am Canadian, so these were not my laws she changed, but the culture of the civil rights struggle in America was not lost on us. My maturing personal ethic of the time, cradled by my faith in a just God and a loving, growing relationship with Jesus, was not of feminism but of the rights of every person to live under a judicially just system and in a compassionate and culturally rich society. I appreciate now that this was the justice for which RBG challenged her legal system. Thank you CNN for this documentary and to Mimi Leader and Daniel Stiepleman for ON THE BASIS OF SEX. I give this documentary a 10 (important) out of 10. [Biographical Documentary]
Review by Nancy L DraperVIP 8BlockedParent2019-01-17T15:52:03Z
This is an important documentary to help us understand the bedrock shifts that have layed the foundation for our current cultural ideals and values. I sought out this documentary on the recommendation of other audience members of the film ON THE BASIS OF SEX. I watched it, today, as background for the review I am writing of that movie, which I saw last night. Although I am 20 years younger than RBG, her litigational years were my culturally maturing years (college, university and entering the work force). I lived in the culture of those years, her years, and would have thought I knew the seminole personalities of my time. I had never heard of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Indeed, until these past two years (in which she has gained a rock-star like celebrity) I had no idea of her influence on my life. This documentary and the movie have now convinced me that I would not have been allowed to be the person I have become had she not addressed the legal restrictions of gender in the United States that undermined a global sense of personhood. I am Canadian, so these were not my laws she changed, but the culture of the civil rights struggle in America was not lost on us. My maturing personal ethic of the time, cradled by my faith in a just God and a loving, growing relationship with Jesus, was not of feminism but of the rights of every person to live under a judicially just system and in a compassionate and culturally rich society. I appreciate now that this was the justice for which RBG challenged her legal system. Thank you CNN for this documentary and to Mimi Leader and Daniel Stiepleman for ON THE BASIS OF SEX. I give this documentary a 10 (important) out of 10. [Biographical Documentary]