Full title, "'I'm No Longer Afraid': 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Being Assaulted by Bill Cosby, and the Culture That Wouldn't Listen".
Photo: Amanda Demme
Posted on 01/16/2016 6:51:24 PM PST by SunkenCiv
More has changed in the past few years for women who allege rape than in all the decades since the women's movement began. Consider the evidence of October 2014, when a Philadelphia magazine reporter at a Hannibal Buress show uploaded a clip of the comedian talking about Bill Cosby: "He gets on TV, 'Pull your pants up, black people ... I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom.' Yeah, but you rape women, Bill Cosby, so turn the crazy down a couple notches ... I guess I want to just at least make it weird for you to watch Cosby Show reruns. Dude's image, for the most part, it's fucking public Teflon image. I've done this bit onstage and people think I'm making it up ... That shit is upsetting." The bit went viral swiftly, with irreversible, calamitous consequences for Cosby's reputation.
Perhaps the most shocking thing wasn't that Buress had called Cosby a rapist; it was that the world had actually heard him. A decade earlier, 14 women had accused Cosby of rape. In 2005, a former basketball star named Andrea Constand, who met Cosby when she was working in the athletic department at Temple University, where he served on the board of trustees, alleged to authorities that he had drugged her to a state of semi-consciousness and then groped and digitally penetrated her. After her allegations were made public, a California lawyer named Tamara Green appeared on the Today show and said that, 30 years earlier, Cosby had drugged and assaulted her as well. Eventually, 12 Jane Does signed up to tell their own stories of being assaulted by Cosby in support of Constand's case... But they were met, mostly, with skepticism, threats, and attacks on their character.
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
Photo: Amanda Demme
Hillary's media shills know the Cosby allegations undermine her candidacy, not least because of the "no votes for you" potential.
But being raped by Bill Clinton is a lie?
The difference between Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton is that Cosby’s black.
The empty chair. Cosby raped Obama? I doubt that. I think it was consensual.
One of the women is only identified by a single name, probably a nom de plume, and isn’t pictured.
Bill Cosby will go free. Why? Simply because another Bill C. did the same thing. If Cosby is prosecuted it keeps Bill Clinton’s sexual assaults on the front page and they can’t be ignored. Once charges are dropped on Cosby it gives the media the opening to close the door on Clinton once again.
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