Along with praising Kate McKinnon's impressions of her on SNL, Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg weighed in on the ongoing #MeToo movement during a talk at Sundance, revealing one of her "many" experiences with sexual harassment that occurred decades before the term had even been coined, the Washington Post reports.While she was studying at Cornell in the 1950s, Ginsburg said her chemistry professor offered to give her a practice test after she told him she could use some help getting comfortable with the material on an upcoming exam. When she sat down for the bonafide test, she realized it was identical to the "practice" quiz he'd given her the day before."And I knew exactly what he wanted in return," Ginsburg said. "I went to his office and I said, 'How dare you? How dare you do this?' And that was the end of that.""I deliberately made two mistakes," she added.She shared the story during a conversation with NPR's Nina Totenberg about her life and career, which she's spent winning landmark battles for women's rights as an attorney and presiding over major gender equality cases as a judge."I think it’s about time," Ginsburg said of the #MeToo movement. "For so long women were silent, thinking there was nothing you could do about it. But now the law is on the side of women or men who encounter harassment, and that’s a good thing."Ginsburg trekked to the film festival in Park City, Utah, for the premiere of a new documentary about her, appropriately titled RBG. The film takes a sweeping look at Ginsburg's life and career and features interviews with her family, friends, and colleagues, including Totenberg, Gloria Steinem, and Bill Clinton. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the justice was pretty taken with the final product."I knew it was going to be good," Ginsburg said after a screening on Sunday. "But I haven’t got words for how marvelous it was."Follow Drew Schwartz on Twitter.
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