Bill Cosby

[Babycakes]

Sept 5, 2015 19:09:37 GMT -4 ElleCee said:

Damon Wayans had a few things to say about the whole situation. I think he should have just kept his mouth shut.

Wayans on the radio

He should have stayed in obscurity. I guess crawling from under his rock to comment on Bill Cosby's accusers and Tracy Morgan's payout is he way back to relevancy. He should have stayed out of both situations. His commentary wasn't necessary.

[deeconsistent]

Sept 5, 2015 19:09:37 GMT -4 ElleCee said:

Damon Wayans had a few things to say about the whole situation. I think he should have just kept his mouth shut.

Wayans on the radio

The Wayans brothers ain't never been shit. It runs in the family. Everything about his statement is completely unsurprising to me.

[kateln]

Shut up Damon Wayans.

[greekone]

I'm sure one of these "un-rapeable" women can have it arranged for Damon Wayans to be hit by a Walmart truck. What a dick. F.U. Damon Wayans.

[Smilla]

Aaaaand another celebrity crush crashes and burns. To smithereens. (Yes, I will admit to kind of liking Damon Wayans back in the day--as in, The Last Boyscout era.) My god, what hateful, misogynist statements. Awful. Simply awful.

[Auroranorth]

Fogot he existed, and he can crawl back into whatever sleazy dirttrap he was in before.

Jerk.

[discoprincess]

Nov 2, 2008 17:02:52 GMT -4 deeconsistent said:

The Wayans brothers ain't never been shit.

Mar 11, 2005 12:40:11 GMT -4 kateln said:

Shut up Damon Wayans.

I have to give the Wayans Brothers props for In Living Color back in the day. Speaking of which, if it were around now, I'd love to see the show do a skit skewering Cosby. (Somehow I can see David Alan Grier playing Cosby.)

“And now they’re like, ‘Oh, really? Rape.’ Forty years — listen, how big is his penis that it gives you amnesia for 40 years?”

This is slightly reminiscent of what Cee-Lo Green said about his own scandal. This so disappointing, to say the least.

[thneed]

Your wish is my command. Here's a Bill Cosby sketch on In Living Color. And here is one about A Different World (three minutes in).

Something occurred to me. Back in the 1990s, Dre used to beat women. A lot. and now he's a wealthy and respected headphones entrepreneur, so he publicly apologizes. In a really vague way that I'm sure was vetted by an army of Apple's lawyers. And people seem ok with that. The public seems to think positively of him for coming forward, and that his violent behavior is in the past, not a part of who he is now (billionaire who made other billionaires even richer) and anyone who would drag up the past is being churlish.

What if Bill Cosby had done that? Do you think people would forgive him if he said he's sorry? Or is it different because Dre was a gangsta rapper and Cosby was America's dad?

[GirlyGhoul]

I'm in no way shape or form excusing Dre's behavior. But in comparison, Dre's horrible actions seemed to have been in the heat of the moment- while Cosby's were definitely planned and calculated. He had a whole system going not only of how to lure the women in, slip them the drugs... and then pay them with hush money immediately afterwards. I still side-eye Dre heavily and I'm not sure I 100% buy his apology (nor will I ever buy his damn over priced headphones). But if Cosby were to try the same stunt of apologizing for past actions. Ehhhhh... it just really doesn't fly! He didn't lose his temper and suddenly whip out the sleeping pills. No, he planned that crap. He knew what he was doing. Dre obviously knew what he was doing too and should not have done what he did.

But I can see forgiving a crime (or series of crimes) of passion over something that was plotted out, deliberately done and had a ready made plan for cover up. I'm still not all the way ok with the fact that Dre somehow gets a pass- but if other folks say let bygones be bygones in his case, I'm not going to bother arguing with them.

Cosby on the other hand? No sir! [GANDOLF] YOU SHALL NOT (get a) PASS!!!![/G]

[discoprincess]

Jun 19, 2006 0:42:40 GMT -4 thneed said:

And people seem ok with that. The public seems to think positively of him for coming forward, and that his violent behavior is in the past, not a part of who he is now (billionaire who made other billionaires even richer) and anyone who would drag up the past is being churlish.

Mar 7, 2005 14:59:54 GMT -4 GirlyGhoul said:

I still side-eye Dre heavily and I'm not sure I 100% buy his apology (nor will I ever buy his damn over priced headphones).

I'm not sure I 100% buy his apology either. There are a number of posters on Lipstick Alley who still side-eye the hell out of Dre for the beatdowns he gave Dee Barnes and his ex, R&B singer Michel'le. I don't think I can overlook that mess. Nope.