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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=MikeL][quote=Anonymous]I'm still not sure this is a win for women. [b]Cosby's behavior doesn't seem all that different than that which was common around rock concerts  in the 1970s[/b]. There are many more worthy and clear cut cases of abuse and harassment, just not ones as sure to make headlines. I think the questionable character of his accusers (Janice Dickinson, et. al) will make it harder for honest victims to get justice. I also think there have been questionable decisions  from the bench that will result in the verdict being overthrown on appeal.[/quote]
What are you talking about? He drugged and raped unwilling women. 62 of them.[/quote]

A lot of the stars did that in the 70s. They dated kids too (teens) and everyone lauded them for it.[/quote]

Please name the “stars who did that in the 70s.”[/quote]

Don Henley.[/quote]

Here's some more: http://www.houstonpress.com/music/teen-angels-10-musicians-with-a-penchant-for-young-girls-6502186[/quote]

None of these people were drugging and raping women like Cosby did. [/quote]

Maybe none of them were drugging girls with qualudes to  make them pass out/be unable to fight them off of even try to refuse their advances like Cosby did but it is very likely that some or perhaps even most of them were supplying other drugs to the girls -- children really--  for their own perverse purposes.

And, drugs or no drugs, just by having sex with them, they were all most definitely raping those girls who were too young to consent.

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So what’s your point PP? That because other famous people did this and haven’t been charged yet, Cosby shouldn’t be punished?[/quote]

No, but I'm disturbed by the feeding frenzy on Cosby when his contemporaries were given a pass on or celebrated for like behavior towards women.  I think a key is the animosity towards him exhibited by a prominent cabal of younger black comedians, many of them mentored by Cosby (Chappelle, Eddie Murphy... ). They were determined to bring him down after he called them out for obscene language on stage. He became the enemy of the BLM movement and others after his oft-quoted NAACP speech demanding that black youth clean up their act. . Cosby's hound dogging was well known and certain factions within his own community used his history to bring him down.  Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead and many others had similar or worse records re young women. There were plenty of drugs involved all around. Quaaludes were the ecstasy of the 1970s. [/quote]

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