One way to look at it is that the story is actually much bigger than Cosby. It is an indictment of the entire show-biz industry. The canonical fantasy is that a starlet is discovered by a producer when he orders a burger and shake at a drugstore counter. The reality is that many of the starlets were sexually molested by powerful people. These people were very famous and well respected. Many of them are still alive and relatively unrecognized in public eye for these abuses.
“One way to look at it is that the story is actually much bigger than Cosby. It is an indictment of the entire show-biz industry. The canonical fantasy is that a starlet is discovered by a producer when he orders a burger and shake at a drugstore counter. The reality is that many of the starlets were sexually molested by powerful people. These people were very famous and well respected. Many of them are still alive and relatively unrecognized in public eye for these abuses.”
I would agree with what you say. On the other hand, stories about the ‘casting couch’ have been around for decades. I first heard of the ‘casting couch’ as a teenager in the 1950s. The depravity has been known for a long time. Bringing it to the forefront yet again reinforces the ‘low-lifes’ which celebrity breeds.