Bill Cosby

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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I heart you for this comment. A high school friend of mine was raped (this was way back in the late 1980s)- she was passed out asleep at a friend's house after drinking too much and a friend (or so we thought) assaulted her (she was also a virgin; she woke up from the pain of the assault). When she told our circle of friends, and the girls got upset, our male friends patiently mansplained to all of us that it wasn't really rape because, let's face it, she acted really slutty when she was drunk, so what did you expect? And so, she never reported it, and tried to pretend it didn't happen and he went on to get married and now has a daughter, I hear (I wonder if he hopes she'll date a guy just like her dear old dad), and my friend was really, really, affected by this; it's screwed up her life for many years now.

And this was just some loser ******* who hung out with us. Had it been someone who could make or break her career, too? Yeesh.

Look at how horrifically all these colleges and universities have handled sexual assault accusations. Women don't talk about sexual assault because they fear that inevitably, they get blamed for it. And they often do.

As you say, these women have NOTHING to gain by coming forward now. I guess maybe they're just not afraid anymore. For that matter, look at the security guy (story in the NY Daily News this weekend) who says he was the one in charge of paying off the women Cosby was involved with. He knew this was going on, too, and never said anything:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.2020464

And this doesn't take away from Cosby's immense talent, or his groundbreaking place in television history. I have fond memories of my elementary school teacher bringing in LPs of his comedy routines and playing them for the class and us just losing our marbles because we were laughing so hard. But really talented people are not necessarily nice people, too, and too much time spent being rich and powerful can make a person forget how to be human. Because the rules don't apply to you anymore, and for decades, they didn't apply to Cosby. But now he's less powerful and so the rules are starting to come back to bite him. Bryan Singer was in the spotlight a while ago for allegedly doing the same thing (minus the drugging, I think) to young male actors; once he's not churning out blockbusters anymore, those stories will probably come back again. But right now he's too powerful.

we all know that there are several sets of rules in this country, depending on how rich/famous/talented you are.
rich kid kills several, doesn't get jail because he has 'affluenza'.
dupont heir rapes his own 3 yo daughter, no jail time.
then i get to hear on espn how players don't think adrian petersons punishment is 'fair', and then in the next breath chris carter et al are saying those with more talent get a longer leash...a guy killed his buddy in a dui wreck, sat out a year. peterson gets the same year?
roman polanski gets to avoid sentencing because he's roman, bill cosby gets to make all this go away because he's famous, talented and rich...par for the course in hollywood.