Bill Cosby accused of Rape - say it ain't so

On Cosby’s boyhood attitude toward women:


“If a girl wandered on to a football field where I was playing, I might make knocking her down part of my fly pattern, for a girl was only an honorary human being; and if my roller skating assumed a certain grand sweep, a girl or two might hit the cement, not an unfitting position for such a lesser part of humanity. In my relations with girls at the age of eight, I never broke hearts, I merely tore skin. Girls simply had to understand that boys did not sit quietly on the floor feeding dolls; boys practiced the violence that was so essential to their becoming men.”

— “Love and Marriage”

On choosing, as a teenager, between a girl he liked and one that would press against him when they danced:


I knew that I wanted to spend the rest of my life at parties with Millie. My problem was, however, that I was intellectually drawn to Ruth as a candidate for being my wife. Would she understand if I brought along Millie too? I had stumbled upon one of life’s ancient dilemmas: Did I want a home and a family or fifty years of good pressing?

— “Love and Marriage”

On how he would “lure” girls out of high school parties:


It was in those basements that I tried to squeeze girls as if they were melons to see which ones might be ripe for going steady with me. Sometimes I managed to lure one of them outside to sit with me in a car for a little kissing and rubbing; most of the other girls I managed to lure away from the crowd just sat there like statues, hoping that this moment would pass and they could get on with their lives.

— “Love and Marriage”

On his efforts to understand women:


Eventually I learned, not just about the silly mechanics of sex but also about the sweet madness of love, about the one virus that will never have a vaccine. And I learned about women, but not too much. In this book, I will share with you my lifelong study of women and love. I cannot, however, claim to have gotten an A myself in this course. In fact, I’m still taking it pass-fail.

— “Love and Marriage”

On his dismay at finding his first gray pubic hair at 50:


But then one morning, the march of time suddenly trampled me: I found a gray hair in my pubic zone, where I had always liked to wear my hair black, and I felt depressed, for gray did not seem to add any distinction to my crotch. It was a thoroughly undistinguished sign of age. I had come full circle: from the time that I yearned to see my first pubic hair to the time that I saw the first pubic hair I didn’t want. … As more of this lower gray appears, I have been wondering: would I be too vain if I started using Grecian Formula in a place that only my wife and doctor ever see?

— “Time Flies”

On children as the price of sex:


My hold on my own sanity has always been a tenuous one because of the behavior of what was created by a few delightful seconds of sex. Believe me, I have paid for those delights.

— “Fatherhood”

On hoping his daughters don’t date someone like him:


The happiness of these four daughters has been of supreme importance to me, but the problem is that this happiness may depend on their avoiding the kind of person their father was in his drugstore days, a mad hunter of j-o-n-e-s. Every time a young man comes to my house for one of my daughters, I have wanted to take them aside and say:

You’re not like me, are you? If you are, then I know what you want and I hope you have the same terrible luck. …I hope you’re on a mission impossible. And one more thing: I may have to kill you, but it will be nothing personal.

— “Love and Marriage”


A father… knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home, but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.

— “Fatherhood”

And on how Cosby really just likes to cuddle:


Just as I no longer can go one-on-one in basketball the way I once did, I also lack the stamina to go one-on-one in bed the way I did in my salad days. In spite of the profound love I have for my wife, sex at my age has become exhausting, which leaves me yearning for a younger body, or longing for a good nap. A man of my age comes home late from the office, has dinner, takes a shower, ignores a few bills, and finally makes it into bed. Discovering another person is in that bed, and dimly aware that this person is a different sex, he starts to make his move.

“Not tonight,” says his wife.

And the man rolls over with a smile.

Thank you very much, he silently says.

His heart had not been in the mood, nor any other part. All he had really wanted was to go on the record.

My wife probably feels that our bed has become a G movie, but I am actually in tune with the times, for recent surveys have revealed that most women would rather cuddle than have sex, and I am the Clark Gable of cuddlers. I don’t need Dr. Ruth because I am tuned to Dr. Seuss.

— “Time Flies”

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Comedienne Roseanne Barr is speaking out about the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby.

In an interview with Access Hollywood, Barr said that she was unsurprised by the allegations and that it took a man - comic Hannibal Buress - to reignite the issue for the media to cover the stories of sexual assault.

"You know, like every woman in Hollywood, there's hardly any hairdressers or waitresses or working women who don't know somebody. We've all heard it for a long time and it surprises nobody. We all know women who know somebody, if they didn't go through it themselves with Bill Cosby," Barr said.

When asked why nobody has spoken up until now, Barr said that "nobody gives a damn 'til a man says it," referring to Buress.

Barr and Cosby both had hit sitcoms in the 1980s that were produced by the same production company. Barr added that she has hope that Cosby will "make it right," though he continues to dispute the claims.

Roseanne says that everyone knew, yet take a look at the list of comedians who say that they dont know if Cosby is guilty or not, and BTW they have never seen him do anything inappropriate.

Also take a look at the list of women who say that he raped them.

I did, and if Cosby did that stuff I am very pissed that these women did not do their duty and report his miss behavior when justice would have allowed us to nail his ass to the wall.

Report: Sidney Poitier ‘disgusted’ with Bill Cosby over sexual assault allegations
Nick Vadala, Philly.com
February 4, 2015

Legendary actor Sidney Poitier is reportedly “terribly disgusted” with embattled comedian Bill Cosby following the numerous sexual assault allegations against him that have emerged since November last year. Or, at least, that’s what a source close to the actor is saying.

Speaking exclusively to the National Enquirer, the anonymous source indicates that Poitier is distraught over the news and “feels sorry for him” but will “say nothing about Cosby.”

“Look at Sidney Poitier — unblemished, untainted, and distinguished,” the source told the Enquirer. “Look at Bill Cosby. Thirty women, they’re not all lying.”

This, however, is not the first time Poitier’s name has come up in the firestorm of allegations against Cosby. Back in November 2014, Cosby accuser Joan Tarshis came forward to allege the comedian assaulted her in 1969, some time after introducing her to Sidney Poitier.

Via Radar Online:

]Cosby accuser Joan Tarshis named Poitier when writing about visiting the set of The Bill Cosby Show in 1969. “He once introduced me to Sidney Poitier as ‘Midget,’ his pet name for me because I was 5-foot-3,” she wrote. Tarshis has claimed that she was later drugged and raped by Cosby in his nearby bungalow — claims Cosby has denied.

Incidentally, Poitier also presented Alan Ladd Jr. with the 1996 Best Picture Oscar for Braveheart. Ladd Jr. is the husband of Cindra Ladd, who claimed last month to have been drugged and raped by Cosby in 1969. The Enquirer’s anonymous source indicates that that particular element caused the allegations against Cosby to “hit close to home" for Poitier.

“I can tell you that Mr. Poitier is terribly disgusted by what Bill Cosby has done, and he feels sorry for him,” the source said.

Poitier and Cosby have a long history of working together, with Poitier, now 87, having starred in a number of films with Cosby including Uptown Saturday Night (1974), Let’s Do It Again (1975), and A Piece of the Action (1977). In 1990, Poitier switched roles and directed Cosby in the box office flop, Ghost Dad.

“Have you even heard of whispers about Sidney Poitier?,” the anonymous source asked the Enquirer at one point. “He’s dignified, and remains that way — which is why he will say nothing about Cosby.”

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/trending/Report-Sidney-Poitier-disgusted-with-Bill-Cosby-over-sexual-assault-allegations.html#IBGPMmPLOT4yCwMV.99

When NBC and others say that they had over years heard rumor mill on Cosby I think they talking in the last ten years, post civil suit. If Cosby had been carrying on as alleged "Bill is a bad boy" would been circulating since the mid 60's at least. Could be, but I have not heard anyone claim this.

One of the first black people to appear in the United States as a spokesperson, he is noted for appeal to white consumers in the mid-century 20th century, in an industry seen as slow to accept diversity.
In spite of contradicting soft drink pitches and endorsing a disgraced financial company, he was considered very believable. In the 1980s, studies found Cosby the "most familiar" and "most persuasive" spokesperson, and the comedian himself noted his contracts had made him financially set for life. However in 2014 allegations of sexual assault significantly hurt Cosby's public image; public opinion polling of Cosby places him near the bottom of a list of 3,000 personalities, when rated on trust and effectiveness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby_in_advertising

But even a lot of that philandering and womanizing was covered up from the general public so he could promote that solid trustworthy family guy image that helped him peddle products like Jello while surrounded by children.

hawkeye10 wrote:

When NBC and others say that they had over years heard rumor mill on Cosby I think they talking in the last ten years, post civil suit. If Cosby had been carrying on as alleged "Bill is a bad boy" would been circulating since the mid 60's at least. Could be, but I have not heard anyone claim this.

I posted about this earlier in the thread about friends in the entertainment industry talking about this 20 - 30 years ago. There was also stuff about him in my aunt's gossip mags back then (best cottage reading ever).

My memory is that the tabloids talked about how he was connected and liked to have post sexual revolution fun. There was also a undertone of pride that he and Sammy Davis were treated 100% like white guys.

he once heard someone complaining about discrimination, and he said, "You got it easy. I'm a short, ugly, one-eyed, black Jew. What do you think it's like for me?"

My memory is that the tabloids talked about how he was connected and liked to have post sexual revolution fun.