Although, as shown before, there are no female figures in the ‘Artist Collection’ in which Vincent van Gogh is situated, we were quite intrigued by the presence of Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a Pop! Icon. The Pop! perfectly illustrates her resilience through the use of accessories such as the black glasses and the big green earrings (Patterson, 2019). Ginsburg is quite an important figure for the feminist movement since not only she was the first Jewish woman to serve on the Supreme Court but also, she has been an inspiration for women to fight against gender discrimination (Patterson, 2019).
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1933. Since she was a child, she was always passionate about learning (Alexander, n.d). Thus, after graduating from Cornell in 1954, she started attending classes at Harvard Law School. Since there were only 9 women out of 500 students, Ginsburg and her female classmates were often discriminated due to their gender and even excluded from certain areas of the library (Alexander, n.d). After she finished Harvard as a top student, it was hard for her to find a job due to the fact that she was a Jewish woman in the 50s in the USA. Finally, in 1993 she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Justice. In her thirteen years of service time, she has strongly advocated for women’s right and fought against gender inequality (Alexander, n.d). With such an iconic female figure being designed, the question remains why in an artist category which cannot be considered a male field, Funko Inc. decided to only produce a male artist collection, not considering the achievements of renowned female artists.