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

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I am never ashamed of my search for reality, messy or not, unappetizing or not.

he seems pretty vanilla by the standards of the crowd I run in.

In July, Cosby lost a bid to fend off a lawsuit that accused him of sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles in 1974.

Thursday night, A&E will premiere an hourlong special about the conservative apologist’s fall from public favor. Framed by a chronological telling of his career arc, it plays as a damning biographical documentary—a profoundly unflattering look back at how, at every step in his professional life, Cosby used his money, fame, and paternal reputation to manipulate young women.

Cosby used his money, fame, and paternal reputation to manipulate young women

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Cosby used his money, fame, and paternal reputation to manipulate young women

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Yep. Shall we add up all the other rich people that did the same?

Some context would be nice. If the women are telling the truth how rare was their treatment by hollywood standards? When you follow the sexual revolution and the womens lib movement with a drug binge aren't the Bill Cosby stories what you would expect to see, all over?

Given the broad support Polanski had back in the 70's and 80's

Polanski was reviled back in the day - used as an example of what awful things could happen to young girls.

Which brings up the question, what is a “good victim”? It certainly is a question that Geimer says she inherently struggles with. It’s one thing to have people consistently questioning whether or not you have been violated, it’s quite another to have them question whether you are deserving of any sort of justice, based on your reputation as a victim. “Almost immediately from the start of this case, I felt the pressure to be damaged,” says Geimer. “But I refused to be damaged enough to be a 'good victim'." Geimer knows a truth that almost all who have been sexually assaulted or rape know: Unless you are the purest of the pure, chances are, something about you will be found to be “not a good victim.”

Not sure where you got that thought from.

If you go back amongst this entire thread, I have on occasions shown my disgust on how those with "fame" think they can hide behind that and get away with this type of disgusting behaviour and never get caught out.

Cosby isn't the only one, Rolf Harris, is another.

Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris is to star in a film being made by his daughter Bindi in a misguided effort to relaunch his television career.

The 85-year-old is to be filmed behind bars at Stafford prison and hopes to include a raft of high profile celebrities backing him, the Sunday Sun newspaper reports.

Harris is serving five years and nine months for indecently assaulting four girls aged between seven and 19 years, one of which was Bindi’s best friend, over a 20-year period.

One of Harris’ closest confidantes Chris Brosnan also claimed to the Mail on Sunday that Harris had originally sought to blame his own grandson for the presence of pornography on his computer.

Police had originally charged Harris with four counts of downloading pornographic images on his computer and the court heard how he had written in an exercise book details how to wipe his computer’s memory. However these charges were dropped before Harris entered a plea.

The Sunday Sun reported the attempts to make a film about Harris behind bars was to try and proclaim his innocence.

‘It is going to focus on his time in prison and his ‘ordeal’ of going to court,’’ a source told the newspaper.

‘It’s difficult to imagine who’d want to watch it, although some people might have a grim fascination with what he had to say.’’

But it’s clear Brosnan, the 48-year-old who was treated like Harris’ son and lived with the family in Bray, an hour outside London, will not be included in the film. He has turned on Harris and given repeated interviews to the Mail on Sunday about Harris’ vile attitude towards women. He claimed Harris was trying to shift blame about his computer contents.

‘The police had already started their investigation into Rolf when I received a call from someone extremely close to him, someone I considered a friend and part of Rolf’s inner circle,’’ Brosnan told the paper.

“This person asked me if I had ever used Rolf’s computer to look at porn. They said they were also questioning Rolf’s grandson Marlon Cox, who was only 15 at the time, and his nephew Buzz, who lives in Australia.

“I was shocked and furious. Rolf never accepts responsibility and still hasn’t.

“What sort of man casts a shadow over his friends and family? Rather than say, ‘Yes, it was me.’ He was happy to shift suspicion to the people around him to try to take the heat off himself. It made me realise he would throw anyone under the bus to save himself.’’