“Desi didn’t have to drug women to get them.”
Neither would Cosby, although Cosby MAY have used drugs. But he didn’t exactly force those drugs on anyone, and those who go to a big star’s hotel room at night have to be mighty darn STUPID to believe the star just wants to talk to them. Eden was smarter than that by a long shot. I think every girl in my high school in the 70s would have been smarter than that.
My point, tho, was that the 60s & 70s were very different from the current corporate environment. We’ve gone from where bedding women was common to where the guy needs to record the gal screaming “Yes! Yes! Yes!” - and be saying, “You want me to continue” in between the yeses.
The women meeting Cosby were complicit in what he was doing.
Saying "nobody would believe me at the time" is true, if you kept going back to the rapist.
BTW, I read the WaPo piece out today. Very thorough. It actually presents the darker sides of some of Cosby's accusers.
Many were not innocent "babes in the woods". One went to prison for five years for drug dealing, another is in recovery for booze. Another one is a thief.
Not great witnesses to put on the stand.
Cosby's lawyers would have torn them to shreds on credibility.