It defies logic and stretches the imagination that Bill Cosby, ie the lovable Cliff Huxtable, could have been a sexual Svengali for all of these decades and only a scant few knew it. What with the thriving gossip industry in Hollyweird, the need and craving for making a fast buck on ANY type of smut news or sensationalism, and the NOW movement (founded in 1966) going strong from that era and supposedly refusing to even “look into” these incidents.... I find it not just difficult, but impossible to believe all of this crap and these unfounded allegations against him decades later. I just want to know what the motive behind these accusations is. Why destroy him ‘now’? Who is orchestrating these attacks and why.
That said, he is either senile or sick (or both) re: the red silk PJ-clad video. He would have done better dressed as his olde tv persona, IMO. After all, it is that legacy and image that he seeks to preserve and defend. The red PJs seem a tad bit....defiant.
Do you mean that you don't think he did it, or that he did it, but the way it was perceived at the time was different?
When much of this was supposed to be going on it was a different era. Women didn't come forward as often. There wasn't the consciousness of "roofies," etc. that we have today. A woman might have assumed that she got drunk or that she'd done a recreational drug and whatever happened happened, I guess. Maybe she only put it together later when other women went public.
The other thing is that men got reputations in Hollywood not so much for what they did, but for their general behavior. Frank Sinatra, say, could have done the same things and had a much worse or a much better reputation depending on what he said and did outside the bedroom. You can get away with more if you act like a goofy uncle than if your public image is that of a predator.