Why Men Find the New Congresswomen So Frightening

Published: Jan. 9, 2019, 12:34 p.m.

There\u2019s an extraordinary scene in the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic, On the Basis of Sex,in which crusading civil rights attorney Ginsburg takes her rebellious teenage daughter Jane to a rundown street somewhere in Manhattan sometime in the \u201970s to meet with civil rights attorney Dorothy Kenyon, played Kathy Bates\u2013ishly by Kathy Bates.