So far, there are 15 accusers and all of them are white women. True OR False?!?

i just fell on his dick

Well Mr. Cosby's Team is going after Accuser 15. In Dickison's book she stated Bill simply "blew her off" and no mention of Sex. Now Dickison is going on TV and crying and claiming she was drugged, raped and she forgot to put it in the Book..Did she forget she wrote a book or did the thing Flop so bad she wanted to forget? A reporter raised a Good question..13 women were suppose to come forward in the last Rape Allegation hype years ago but they decided not to when Cosby settled with the Accuser..."Why did the 13 Women disappear after the settlement?" They had nothing to lose coming forward after Bill settled with the Accuser...Why wait for a Comedian to make a joke about it to jump on the bandwagon again? Very valid questions...It makes you wonder if these women are simply looking for Fame and they need a vehicle to get them to the Bank....If you're serious then be serious...Fuck the settlements....Tell your story to anybody and everybody, stop waiting for the right opportunity or pre-settlement talks to come forward...

Chancellor said:

In Dickison's book she stated Bill simply "blew her off" and no mention of Sex. Now Dickison is going on TV and crying and claiming she was drugged, raped and she forgot to put it in the Book..Did she forget she wrote a book or did the thing Flop so bad she wanted to forget?

that's already been answered... pay attention

white supremcy does not need a reason.

TonyVanDam said:

So far, there are 15 accusers and all of them are white women. True OR False?!?

Maybe that says more about Bill than anything

Civil Rights activist out of the period of not looking a white woman in the face, maybe the Civil rights movement set Bill on the wild & loos Jungle love

He definately from watching him seems to have a pref for 'mixed' women

The whole situation (of course) is very sad.

Chancellor said:

Well Mr. Cosby's Team is going after Accuser 15. In Dickison's book she stated Bill simply "blew her off" and no mention of Sex. Now Dickison is going on TV and crying and claiming she was drugged, raped and she forgot to put it in the Book..Did she forget she wrote a book or did the thing Flop so bad she wanted to forget? A reporter raised a Good question..13 women were suppose to come forward in the last Rape Allegation hype years ago but they decided not to when Cosby settled with the Accuser..."Why did the 13 Women disappear after the settlement?" They had nothing to lose coming forward after Bill settled with the Accuser...Why wait for a Comedian to make a joke about it to jump on the bandwagon again? Very valid questions...It makes you wonder if these women are simply looking for Fame and they need a vehicle to get them to the Bank....If you're serious then be serious...Fuck the settlements....Tell your story to anybody and everybody, stop waiting for the right opportunity or pre-settlement talks to come forward...

Please give the full names of all 13 women that are "looking for fame."

Bill Cosby refuses to answer questions about rape accusations in unearthed interview (VIDEO)

The interview was taped after comedian Hannibal Buress called the 77-year-old a rapist during an Oct. 16 stand-up gig, but before three women publicly claimed they were drugged and assaulted by Cosby. ‘I would appreciate it if it was scuttled,’ he said after evading questions about the name-calling.

Days before several women claimed Bill Cosby drugged and raped them, the comedian stonewalled a reporter's questions about previous assault accusations and asked for the interview to be "scuttled."

The Associated Press released... interview Wednesday that showed Cosby refusing to answer questions about a 2005 sexual assault lawsuit.

Since then, three new women have claimed the entertainer raped them decades ago and three TV outlets have scr...oned shows starring the 77-year-old.

The interview focused on Cosby loaning art to the Smithsonian, but near the end, a reporter asked the comedian if he had any response to Hannibal Buress' Oct. 16 stand-up gig in Philadelphia, where Buress' repeatedly called Cosby a rapist.

The bit harped on a 2005 lawsuit where Andrea Constand, Tamara Green and 12 Jane Does claimed Cosby drugged and raped them. The lawsuit was settled in 2006.

In a Nov. 6 interview Bill Cosby dodged questions about a rape accusation from 2005.

"I don't talk about it," he said.

After the interview, Cosby requested that the footage never be shown.

"I would appreciate it if it was scuttled," he told the reporter. "I think that if you want to consider yourself to be serious, then it will not appear anywhere."

In the days following the interview, three more women came forward with new rape accusations. While they span several states, each victim reported a similar story: The entertainer attacked them decades ago after he gave them sedatives.

CARLOS CHAVEZ/AP Tamara Green said she didn’t report being raped when it happened because she was told ‘no one will believe you.’

On Sunday, Joan Tarshis claimed Cosb... raped her in his dressing room in 1969 when she was an aspiring comedy writer.

Two days later, former supermodel Janice Dickinsonrevealed a similar story. She claimed Cosby raped her in 1982 after he slipped her two pills and some wine while they were on a trip to Lake Tahoe.

On Wednesday, a third woman from West Palm Beach told WPTV Cosby assaulted her in 1976. Therese Serignese said she was a starstruck 19-year-old living in Las Vegas when she met the comedian. He invited her to a party, where he gave her pills.

"I took them, didn't know what they were, didn't even ask. I just was intimidated, I guess, and I took them. Then my next memory is feeling drugged and him having sex with me," she said.

Florida’s Therese Serignese said she was a starstruck teenager when Cosby raped her.

Serignese later became an anonymous witness in the 2005 lawsuit.

The three women stand with Barbara Bowman, who publicly claimed Cosby raped her before the October stand-up bit.

In 2006, Bowman said she was an aspiring actor when Cosby raped her in New York City in the 1980s. She was also an anonymous witness in the lawsuit.

On Wednesday, Green — one of the two women named in the 2005 lawsuit — penned a new essay for ETonline recounting her accusations.

MIKE COPPOLA/GETTY IMAGES FOR MERCEDES-BENZSupermodel Janice Dickinson said Cosby raped her in 1982.

She said she didn't report the rape when it happened, fearing Cosby's star power.

"We were all told that 'no one will believe you.' We were told, 'I don't believe you,'" she wrote. "It is personally crushing to be disbelieved. To go for help and be dismissed because he's very cool and famous and you are not. It is crushing and you are a victim all over again."

Also on Wednesday, NBC canceled a planned sitcom starring the 77-year-old, as TV Land yanked reruns of "The Cosby Show." A day earlier, Netflix announced it would postpone the launch of Cosby's stand-up comedy special.

Cosby has not been charged in any of the accused cases.

OPEN SECRET

I Warned You About Bill Cosby in 2007

In 2007—seven years before she publicly came forward—I spoke with Joan Tarshis, a former Hollywood publicist who claimed that Bill Cosby raped her. After our talk—and, of course, much more research—I filed a version of the following story on my website Hollywood, Interrupted. It identified a number of women who claimed that Bill Cosby had raped them. (The story has been updated slightly to reflect the allegations of the past few weeks, including Tarshis’s choice to drop the pseudonym she had elected to use in prior years.)


In my interviews with several of the women back then, I found the tale they told disturbingly similar: All were young and impressionable, beautiful, and talented. Cosby had taken a keen interest in their careers, and had offered to mentor them or otherwise open the fabled doors to the glistening kingdom of show business, for which he was a principal emissary. All were given spiked drinks—or drugs misrepresented as medicine—and became incapacitated, the women charged. And all allegedly awoke with the unshakable sense that something wrong had occurred. People magazine even ran an article on the lawsuits that were settled with several of the women, but never followed up on it. And from my own experience, I can confirm that the story shook people to the core: Even more than Woody Allen, Bill Cosby was a beloved figure and civil-rights pioneer; hardened editors were horrified at the prospect of taking him down. I might as well have pitched a story about Martin Luther King, Jr. philandering with white women. The story went nowhere.

But with the recent onslaught of similar allegations—many from women on whose charges the statute of limitations has long since passed, so they have no financial incentive or clear reason to cloud their reputations well into middle age—it’s important to track the history of this story, and the media complicity that has enabled it to remain untold for so long. Heroes always fall hard. But their suffering and anguish is nothing compared to that of their victims.

William Henry Cosby occupies a permanent place in the American pantheon. Like Jackie Robinson in baseball or Sidney Poitier in Hollywood films (with whom he partnered twice), Cosby was the first to successfully cross the color line in his field—initially nightclub comedy, and then network television—carrying the struggle for racial equality and civil rights literally into the nation’s living rooms. One of the most revered performers of the last half-century, his long-running series The Cosby Show and endearing commercials as a pitchman for Jell-O made him not only one of the wealthiest celebrities (he once considered buying NBC), but earned him unofficial status as America’s first father. (He is the author of a bestselling book titled simply Fatherhood.) This was only reinforced when his son Ennis, 27, was shot and killed in a senseless act that was quickly recast as a national tragedy.

Yet like many pathfinders, Cosby may possess an inexplicable and almost unfathomable darkness, one that has caused him to reportedly commit unspeakable atrocities in defiance of his public persona. Let’s enter that mirror world where the father we felt we knew can allegedly defile young women who looked up to him, without their approval, and often without their conscious awareness. Shall we, Dr. Huxtable?

Corporate media didn’t have the stomach to slaughter one of America’s sacred cows. (In fact, a wire service editor told me personally, “We don’t want to libel Mr. Cosby.”)

Bill Cosby was born July 12, 1937, in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love. He followed a stint in the Navy with a career in stand-up comedy, where his accessible, family-centered routines and affable nature proved a winning combination for white liberal audiences looking to assimilate black comedy into their monochromatic world. A series of folksy, astoundingly successful comedy albums led to appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and then in 1965, I Spy, where he became the first black performer to be cast in a network television series or win an Emmy, paving the way for Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, and an entire generation of comics. He followed that with several series, including an animated Saturday-morning show called Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids which ran for eight seasons, ending in 1984. That same year, The Cosby Show began its eight-year run at the top of the ratings, establishing a comedy beachhead on NBC Thursday nights that has endured for two decades.

Cosby received a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and in later years, the father of five was presented with a Kennedy Center Award by President Bill Clinton. So great is his enduring appeal that in the ensuing national grief following his son’s murder in 1997, radio talk-show host Tammy Bruce could be fired for suggesting that the killing was not racially motivated, but possibly the result of the Cosby heir being in the wrong place at the wrong time in an expensive, carjack-able vehicle.

Cracks in the Wall

Two days after Ennis Cosby’s death, 22-year-old Autumn Jackson and a male companion were arrested in Los Angeles after allegedly flying there to extort $24 million from the elder Cosby in exchange for not revealing that he was her father, following an extramarital affair with her mother, Shawn Upshaw, in the mid-’70s. In the ensuing trial, Cosby admitted to the affair and to having paid Upshaw $100,000 over the intervening decades and set up a trust fund in her name, but denied he was Jackson’s father. She refused to take a paternity test, and was eventually convicted of extortion and sentenced to 22 months in prison.

Cosby generated controversy again in 2000, while speaking at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., at a dinner sponsored by the NAACP Legal Defense Education Fund and Howard University. Cosby chose the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that ended segregation in public schools to deliver a rambling, unfocused speech that vilified “lower-class blacks” for their failure to honor the unspoken social contract of civil rights, and called into question their parenting skills. Middle-class blacks and black institutions were outraged.

Allegations

As the years went on, the bombshells kept coming—seemingly bigger with each blast. That included an allegation from 2000, when 20-year-old actress La’Chele Covington, who had performed a bit part on his TV series, claimed Cosby had fondled her breasts and exposed himself to her in his Manhattan home. No charges were ever filed in that incident.

Andrea Constand, then a 31-year-old former University of Arizona basketball star and athletic department executive at Temple University in Philadelphia, Cosby’s alma mater, came forward to allege that after a dinner party in January 2004, Cosby drugged her in his Philadelphia mansion, touched her breasts, put her hand on his genitals and that she awoke with her clothing in disarray and the sense that she had been violated. Her father told reporters that Constand, who has returned to her native Canada, had been good friends with Cosby, which is why it took her a full year to work up the courage to report the incident to authorities.


Although no criminal charges were filed against Cosby, the comedian settled a lawsuit filed against him by the Canadian woman, seeking compensation from Cosby for “mental anguish,” “post-traumatic stress disorder” and the “loss of enjoyment of life’s pleasures.” The terms of the settlement, of course, are confidential. Constand’s lawyer, Dolores Troiani, issued a statement that confirmed the two parties “have resolved their differences and, therefore, the litigation has been dismissed.” But that wasn’t the only related lawsuit his wallet vanquished.

After Green started screaming and threatened to throw a lamp through her window to get someone’s attention, she says Cosby finally let her go. As a final indignity, Green alleges that he dropped two $100 bills on her end table and left.

On Aug. 28, 2007, Hollywood, Interrupted broke the news that Cosby had reportedly settled and paid big bucks to avoid fallout from a 2006 lawsuit filed against his attorney Martin Singer and a tabloid newspaper by accuser Andrea Constand. In her complaint, Constand alleged that she had been libeled, defamed, and her privacy had been invaded by Cosby, et al. (See complaint here.) After that story appeared, mainstream news interest was scant, with corporate media apparently without the stomach to slaughter one of America’s sacred cows. (In fact, a wire service editor told me personally, “We don’t want to libel Mr. Cosby.”) But even more disturbing is Bill Cosby’s long-time, uneasy relationship with the tabloids.

Back when Cosby’s son Ennis was murdered, an American tabloid offered a $100,000 reward that successfully led to the apprehension and conviction of the murderer. That victory for the tab became a bargaining chip in all future dealings with the superstar. In 2005, the tabloid was set to publish an exposé on Cosby, featuring allegations from new self-described Cosby victims. A woman calling herself “Barbara” (later identified as former Hollywood publicist Joan Tarshis) claimed that in 1969, after a meeting on the set of a television show, Cosby slipped her a mickey and forced her into oral copulation, after which he tossed her ten bucks for cab fare. (It was Tarshis who gave the comedian the memorable epithet “Jell-O Man.”)


She agreed to meet with tabloid editors in New York City and take a lie detector test to back up her claims. The tabloid realized that they had a bombshell story on their hands, but the exposé was mysteriously killed when Cosby agreed to a clandestine interview with an editor staged in a hotel room in Houston.

What resulted from that meeting was a garden-variety cover story in which the tabloid’s prize was getting Cosby to thank the paper for helping to nail his son’s killer, in-between veiled intimations of shakedowns and how his accusers (specifically Andrea Constand) just wanted his money. Not surprisingly, the issue was a loser at the newsstand.

Attorney Tamara Green, 58, a former fashion model and ex-wife of The Wild Bunch screenwriter Walon Green, claims the comedian drugged and forced himself on her over 40 years ago. In response to comments by the Philadelphia district attorney that she perceived as indicating the charges against Cosby were in doubt, Green announced that she had the names of three other women who would testify to almost identical stories of being drugged and assaulted. Green also claimed a young woman by the name of Page Young was so distraught over a similar sexual assault by Cosby that she was driven to suicide by a fatal drug overdose.

“Do I want everybody to know that he [Cosby] had his dirty paws all over me? No,” Green told the Philadelphia Daily News. But the attorney decided to come forward with her sordid story in defense of Cosby’s Canadian accuser. Green says that it is her “civic duty and moral obligation” to come forward so that the Canadian woman would not be intimidated by the Cosby legal camp, nor would she be alone should her charges make it to the Philadelphia courtroom.

Green claims that while she was a model doing cosmetic and Coca-Cola commercials in the early ’70s, Cosby employed her to help him open a private Los Angeles nightclub. Suffering from flu symptoms one day, she decided to call in sick. Cosby invited her to lunch at the club that day. “Maybe you’ll feel better,” Green says he told her. When she arrived at the club, she reports that Cosby offered her some pills that she says he told her were the cold medicine Contac. Ten minutes after taking the pills, she reports that she “was really stoned, I mean, smashed.” Cosby then offered to drive her home and when they got to her apartment, she alleges that he attacked her by attempting to take off her clothes.

“I started fighting him and he’s kissing on me, peeling off my clothes,” she said.

After Green started screaming and threatened to throw a lamp through her window to get someone’s attention, she says Cosby finally let her go. As a final indignity, Green alleges that he dropped two $100 bills on her end table and left.

“That infuriated me,” she said.

Shawn Upshaw, the mother of Cosby’s discredited “love child,” Autumn Jackson, also told the National Enquirer, “I was put in the same position with Bill.”

When Upshaw was visiting Cosby at his Beverly Hills rented mansion in the ’70s, she claims that he slipped debilitating drugs into a drink he prepared for her. She then claims that the drink “looked strange” to her and she didn’t want to drink it, but Cosby insisted she finish it. She immediately started feeling out of sorts. “I knew definitely that I had been heavily drugged,” she says.

Although it was the last thing she remembered of the evening, Upshaw claims that Cosby put her to bed, and she awoke the next morning “knowing I’d had sex during my sleep.”

The Deluge

In my reporting, I fielded reports from numerous women (including Joan Tarshis) with similar stories to tell, some of whom have still, in 2014, not come forward with their stories. An airline attendant claims that Cosby flew her and her aspiring actor brother to Las Vegas and put them up in a luxury suite, promising to share his professional contacts with them. The weekend, she claims, quickly devolved into a wash of booze and drugs, and the stewardess says she had to repeatedly fend off Cosby’s inappropriate and aggressive sexual advances. Now thanks to the public tribunal of Facebook, a decades-old story that the media consciously turned a blind eye to has gathered renewed momentum. In the past 48 hours, it seems to have hit critical mass, with proto-supermodel Janice Dickinson adding her name to the afflicted—a charge she made in her 2002 autobiography No Lifeguard on Duty, but now claims she was forced to remove when Cosby’s legal team pressured publisher HarperCollins. (Cosby’s lawyers, both then and now, refused further comment.)

As is equally clear from his shambolic talk-show appearances and his extemporaneous attempts at social commentary in a public forum, Bill Cosby has long existed in a bubble. You don’t create movies like Leonard, Part 6, a catastrophically conceived 1987 James Bond parody in which the comedian at one point rides an ostrich, and not be dangerously out of touch with the world around you, or protected behind layers of hierarchy and protocol. With this much darker turn into pathology and alleged predation, it appears that for the entire 45 years of his public life, Cosby has been, in Shawn Upshaw’s words, “an incurable womanizer,” adulterer, and accused serial rapist—alleged actions in which his media champions were complicit. Moreover, the duration and degree of these incidents suggest a parallel history, one that once revealed in all its explosive detail, may render what we now know so far merely the tip of the iceberg.

http://www.thedailybeast....-2007.html

I am inclined to believe the allegations. I remember hearing the rumors years aoo. Wendy Williams did a report on her show that Bill tried to get her fired from her radio show behind something he didn't like she said about him. She said he is a "vile and vindictive man." Someone else said the same about him, that he tried to get the person fired because he didn't approve of something. I don't believe women would just come out of the woodwork willy nilly on false allegations. And don't forget that most of the allegations are from way back when he was at the peak of his TV career. Yeah, old Bill is a Lothario perv. Like I always say, What goes around comes around, and it has come full circle back on old Bill. Time to pay the piper.

Shyra said:

I am inclined to believe the allegations. I remember hearing the rumors years aoo. Wendy Williams did a report on her show that Bill tried to get her fired from her radio show behind something he didn't like she said about him. She said he is a "vile and vindictive man." Someone else said the same about him, that he tried to get the person fired because he didn't approve of something. I don't believe women would just come out of the woodwork willy nilly on false allegations. And don't forget that most of the allegations are from way back when he was at the peak of his TV career. Yeah, old Bill is a Lothario perv. Like I always say, What goes around comes around, and it has come full circle back on old Bill. Time to pay the piper.

You have heard of the Salem Witch trials?

whats worse.....drugging and raping ...or physically raping?

phunkdaddy said:

lazycrockett said:

Im gonna say it, if this actually happened Janice would have been saying this when she was trying to extend her last reality star 15 minutes of fame. I find her very sketchy.

Exactly. And you could see her stumbling and bumbling through the interview. She was such an ass on her reality show too.

Calling her an ass is putting it nicely. I can't stand Janice Dickinson. She is so damn annoying!

hopefully there WONT be a sex tape from this....

As someone who used to watch "The Cosby Show" all throughout the 80s and 90s (and watched the reruns of this show, until it was recently cancelled), I hope to God that these rape allegations are not true. But only time will tell.

luvsexy4all said:

whats worse.....drugging and raping ...or physically raping?

What?

luvsexy4all said:

whats worse.....drugging and raping ...or physically raping?

luvsexy4all said:

whats worse.....drugging and raping ...or physically raping?

huh?

luvsexy4all said:

whats worse.....drugging and raping ...or physically raping?

Hey! You're not Dawkins, or whatever, you're not allowed to say stuff like that.

13 Women charged him in 2005 and most of the media was silent. The latest reasoning is that Cosby was an icon to conservatives because of his Pound Cake speechs on responsibility for poor blacks, so they were afraid to go after him, because this would play into the Mike Dyson takedowns.

I'm really angry at Dyson these days but black America and conservatives should apologize to him--Cosby wasnt' a moral force.

The same goes with Obama. Obama is the Cosby of government power.

Ouch:

Comments from Nikki Giovanni from years ago.

http://hellobeautiful.com/2014/11/20/nikki-giovanni-bill-cosby-comments/

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/20/opinion/hill-bill-cosby-case-rape-culture/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Editor's note: Marc Lamont Hill is a CNN political commentator and distinguished professor of African-American studies at Morehouse College. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

(CNN) -- Over the past few weeks, new attention has been paid to longstanding allegations that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted multiple women over the course of his career. As new information and accusers are brought to light, we are reminded of an unshakable feature of American life: rape culture.

By "rape culture," I refer to the ways that our society and its institutions normalize, promote, excuse, and enable sexual violence against men and women. While I cannot definitively say that Cosby is guilty of the crimes of which he is accused, the conversation about him epitomizes some of the most pernicious aspects of rape culture.

Patriarchy

Marc Lamont Hill

For decades, reports of Cosby's alleged sexual misconduct have circulated in private circles and, more recently, mainstream media outlets. Despite report after report, often from credible sources, the general public has failed to take the stories seriously. That was, of course, until male comedian Hannibal Buress raised the rape allegations during a two-minute comedy skit last month.

This is not a coincidence, but rather a key feature of rape culture, which diminishes the legitimacy of women's voices and truth claims. By privileging the perspectives of men, who have a material investment in the maintenance of gender injustice, we allow rape culture to survive and thrive. In this case, it is entirely reasonable to assume that if Buress (or another man) hadn't made the claims publicly, we would still be talking about Cosby as America's favorite father rather than a possible sociopath.

Denial

In the face of horrific evidence against Bill Cosby, most Americans simply elected to look the other way. From fans to industry executives to his latest biographer, we all committed to denying the existence of consistent rape allegations throughout Cosby's career.

Of course, part of this is about the unique position that Cosby holds in the public imagination. After all, who wants to believe that America's most beloved father and black America's socio-moral steward could be a depraved serial rapist?

But it's deeper than that. We live in a society where even the most ordinary and anonymous of accused rapists is offered the benefit of social and legal doubt. This is why we're quick to chalk up rapes, particularly acquaintance rapes, as "misunderstandings" or "miscommunications" rather than the crimes that they are.

Blaming the victim

Rather than offering criticism of Cosby's alleged actions, many have chosen to focus on the behavior of the accusers. Why were they alone with him in the first place? What were they wearing? How can they cry rape if they had consensual sex with him in the past? Why didn't they do more to physically fight him off?

This sensibility can be seen in my colleague Don Lemon's interview with Joan Tarshis, when he asked her why she didn't use her teeth to defend herself from Cosby's alleged sexual assault. Lemon responded to discussion of the interview Wednesday with an apology, saying "As I am a victim myself I would never want to suggest that any victim could have prevented a rape." Still, when such questions are raised, even by victims of sexual assault, we reinforce one of the dominant narratives of rape culture: "If you get raped, it's at least partially your own fault."

Perpetuating myths

Some people have pointed to Cosby's public persona, philanthropy, and other positive attributes to refute the rape allegations. Others have pointed to the personal nature of his relationships with his accusers as proof that he is not a rapist.

Such gestures are commonly used to reinforce the myth that rapists are strangers, social outcasts or part of a seedy criminal class. The normalization of rape in our society hinges on these deeply ingrained lies about the nature of sexual violence.

In truth, most rapes don't happen in dark alleys, nor are they usually perpetrated by unknown actors. Rape occurs among co-workers, classmates, family members and even spouses. And rapists can be doctors, lawyers, judges, priests and, yes, professional comedians. This doesn't mean that Bill Cosby is guilty -- that is for courts to decide -- but it does mean that his personal biography and achievements do not make him innocent.

Trivializing sexual violence

In the past few days, footage of Bill Cosby's old comedy routines has begun to circulate around the Internet. One clip worthy of extreme concern was his 1969 "Spanish fly" routine, where he jokes about the erotic effects of slipping a substance into women's drinks.

Of course, this is far from a smoking gun. In all likelihood Cosby saw no connection between this standup routine, which was wildly popular among fans and critics, and rape culture. Unfortunately, that is precisely the point. Jokes about Spanish fly, pro-rape college chants and nearly universal axioms about "not dropping the soap" in prison are all part of a perverted cultural logic that minimizes the immorality, illegality, and trauma of rape.

Turning rapists Into victims

Over the past week, Cosby has received support from a unlikely coalition of people. Black radicals have argued that Cosby is being attacked because of white supremacist antipathy toward successful black men. Many of the same liberals who ran to Ferguson, Missouri, hours after Michael Brown's death, criticizing our dysfunctional justice system and demanding immediate justice, are now preaching the virtues of patience and due process. Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh have claimed that Cosby is being punished by the liberal media for his righteous moral crusades against the black community.

Few things can unite America's warring political factions like a commitment to shielding men from accountability for sexual violence.

Poor Camille.

Chancellor said:

Well Mr. Cosby's Team is going after Accuser 15. In Dickison's book she stated Bill simply "blew her off" and no mention of Sex. Now Dickison is going on TV and crying and claiming she was drugged, raped and she forgot to put it in the Book..Did she forget she wrote a book or did the thing Flop so bad she wanted to forget? A reporter raised a Good question..13 women were suppose to come forward in the last Rape Allegation hype years ago but they decided not to when Cosby settled with the Accuser..."Why did the 13 Women disappear after the settlement?" They had nothing to lose coming forward after Bill settled with the Accuser...Why wait for a Comedian to make a joke about it to jump on the bandwagon again? Very valid questions...It makes you wonder if these women are simply looking for Fame and they need a vehicle to get them to the Bank....If you're serious then be serious...Fuck the settlements....Tell your story to anybody and everybody, stop waiting for the right opportunity or pre-settlement talks to come forward...

also, as someone else pointed out, why are we assuming that these women's stories were unassailable? we don't know who these 13 women were, if they were all "victims", or what would come out under cross examination. some of these women have claimed that they were drugged and raped REPEATEDLY, yet they kept going back to cosby, again and again, taking money and gifts, etc. if you're on a jury and that comes out on cross, how are you supposed to believe that these were anything but consensual relationships gone bad? it would be really difficult to buy into rape, i think. i also noted janice's changing story. she claims she never put rape in the book b/c his lawyers threatened her. but still, she was out there talking other shit about him, so if they were threatening her, wouldn't they have told her to shut her mouth PERIOD? now it's being reported that one of these accusers has had some ongoing law enforcement "issues". not saying that should preclude the fact that she could be telling the truth, but i'm not going convict cosby on the word of a dodgy witness. not gonna happen.

A different take:

Around 14:50.

Thoughts?

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OldFriends4Sale said:

TonyVanDam said:

So far, there are 15 accusers and all of them are white women. True OR False?!?

Maybe that says more about Bill than anything

Civil Rights activist out of the period of not looking a white woman in the face, maybe the Civil rights movement set Bill on the wild & loos Jungle love

He definately from watching him seems to have a pref for 'mixed' women

That's one more reason why I wonder.

luvsexy4all said:

whats worse.....drugging and raping ...or physically raping?

Anyone using a date rape drug to trap his/her victims are THE biggest f***ing scums of the earth.

2freaky4church1 said:

13 Women charged him in 2005 and most of the media was silent. The latest reasoning is that Cosby was an icon to conservatives because of his Pound Cake speechs on responsibility for poor blacks, so they were afraid to go after him, because this would play into the Mike Dyson takedowns.

I'm really angry at Dyson these days but black America and conservatives should apologize to him--Cosby wasnt' a moral force.

The same goes with Obama. Obama is the Cosby of government power.

In 2014, make THAT^ 16 women and counting.