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In reply to the discussion: Some thoughts about Bill Cosby. [View all]bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)24. Celebrities may be household names but bottom line is we don't know these people
They're guests in our house every week. We think we know them but in fact what we are looking at is a carefully crafted public image that often has nothing to do with real person underneath.
That genial, funny Bill Cosby persona very seemed real to me. The idea that he is a serial rapist is shocking--horrifying really. Please, say it isn't so Bill but with all these people coming forward it's beginning to look like it is. Think about it, who better to put vulnerable women off their guard than a genial, funny avuncular guy. Who better to cover it up than a rich, powerful celebrity.
But I would never have thought that Robin Williams would have been likely to commit suicide either.
I am, I'm afraid, hopelessly naïve.
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Never ever happen, but if it did, I doubt it would start a conversation about rape.
cali
Nov 2014
#1
Admit to drugging and raping nineteen women and spending your waning years in the hoosegow
DemocratSinceBirth
Nov 2014
#2
He probably couldn't. There are likely to be more women who have stayed quiet till now
pnwmom
Nov 2014
#9
I think that type of discourse can be appropriate. It depends on the degree of the infraction.
Happyhippychick
Nov 2014
#10
Celebrities may be household names but bottom line is we don't know these people
bklyncowgirl
Nov 2014
#24
I am k&ring because I agree it would be a really good thing for him to do, to live up to previous
uppityperson
Nov 2014
#26
Yeh,, right. Kind of a huge coincidence so many women telling such a similar story
HERVEPA
Nov 2014
#30
The Shunning of Bill Cosby in America – Reasserting White Cultural Standards in the Media?
BFreeFranklin
Nov 2014
#33