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Post by Smilla on Aug 3, 2015 22:30:42 GMT -4
I am disturbed by what I read of the victims' stories on that site. How anyone could read that article and still be defending him shocks me. (Also, I know the media 'has' to use certain phrasing for 'liability' reasons, but it was painful to read the word 'alleged' in front of every description of the crimes, as well as the word 'claims' in front of the victims' statements about Cosby's crimes.)
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Post by narm on Aug 3, 2015 22:39:47 GMT -4
It's so depressing to think about. He's just evil, and so many women went so long without being believed. That would be doubly hurtful, I think. He capitalized on his image. Not unlike priests turned predators, etc. It is so sick.
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thneed
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Post by thneed on Aug 3, 2015 22:51:51 GMT -4
Yeah. Whatever. If he was a producer, he knew what was going on with the constant stream of women going through there and he let it happen anyway. I cannot agree with this. The producer may have seen the women were coming in and thought consensual affairs, not the he was drugging them. A man employed by NBC was tasked with guarding Cosby's dressing room, and paying off the women with thousands of dollars. He knew, NBC knew. They might not have wanted to know the details, but you don't give your consensual one night stands $2000 a month. The rapes were apparently an open secret in Hollywood, as we've heard. I can't believe the producer of the biggest hit on the network didn't know. That's why I hope this doesn't become a witch hunt that acts like Bill Cosby was some isolated incident. There are a dozen superstars who abused women in some way (allegedly) that the general public knows about. When Cosby and his I Spy buddy Robert Culp made that joke about Spanish fly, it was considered cute. A few decades ago, this wouldn't have been considered rape. It would have been routine in Hollywood. Hell, it still might be if those Bryan Singer stories are anything to go by. It was something plenty of powerful men did, and no one ever thought of the women.
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celerydunk
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Post by celerydunk on Aug 4, 2015 7:47:41 GMT -4
They might not have wanted to know the details, but you don't give your consensual one night stands $2000 a month. I'm not arguing that NBC didn't know, but as a side note, you would be surprised the cash really rich married men will "gift" women. I've seen money given to women that the guy didn't even have sex with. The drug cartel (not the low life dealers I'm talking the high level guys) also give money away like water. All the women have to do is be pretty and "classy". And young. This only works for women in their early 20s.
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Post by Mouse on Aug 13, 2015 9:22:13 GMT -4
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Post by LurkerNan on Aug 13, 2015 15:48:07 GMT -4
I feel bad enough for these women, but to know that there was an NBC employee waiting for them to wake up so he could throw cash at them like some whore really pisses me off.
And people think we don't need feminism anymore... tsk.
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Post by Mouse on Aug 21, 2015 13:21:24 GMT -4
And the hits (against the shit) just keep on coming. Two more women have come forward. One was told by Cosby's chauffeur, "You're not the first one." The other was drugged and raped at the Playboy mansion. She wasn't the first one either. Someone needs to ask Hefner if he knew or suspected what Cosby was up to.
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thneed
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Post by thneed on Aug 21, 2015 13:37:50 GMT -4
Does anyone think Cosby was the only guest at the Playboy mansion who didn't behave like a perfect gentleman? Not even close. I hope the Hollywood power players are shitting themselves. Bill Cosby is expendable, especially since he hasn't made anyone real money in years. But I would be very surprised if what Bill Cosby did wasn't common back then. Hell, it probably is now.
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Post by Auroranorth on Aug 21, 2015 17:13:27 GMT -4
Where you have an unending supply of young people who want to succeed in show business, you will have scumbags, users and creeps.
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Post by discoprincess on Aug 23, 2015 10:39:03 GMT -4
Where you have an unending supply of young people who want to succeed in show business, you will have scumbags, users and creeps. That brings to mind the brutal and disturbing attack on Nomi Malone's friend on Showgirls. (TPTB in that movie didn't want to do diddy squat about it either, and Nomi was blackmailed into not reporting the rape to the police.) I could totally see that happening to a Cosby victim, especially if an attack happened in the Playboy mansion.
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