A couple year older article about the charming couple
http://pagesix.com/2014/12/20/friends-baffled-as-camille-cosby-stands-by-bill-amid-scandal/
http://pagesix.com/2014/12/20/friends-baffled-as-camille-cosby-stands-by-bill-amid-scandal/
A couple year older article about the charming couple
http://pagesix.com/2014/12/20/friends-baffled-as-camille-cosby-stands-by-bill-amid-scandal/
“I think his problem is that he’s far too trusting and he lets things go too far and people can get the wrong idea,” the 69-year-old said.
"What people don't realize is that we are human beings, too," says Cosby, of his struggle with fame. "We're made up of different moods. If pushed, we have all different kinds of behavior. The reality depends on the person projecting it on you."
FWIW... It's worth a lot! Thank you Britskate- very well said.Nor should you. Victim blaming is prolific - sometimes, people don't mean to harm the victims but don't realize they are through insensitive and ignorant comments. They're hurting more than just the victims though - they're hurting the loved ones of those people and even future victims too. I believe victims are a lot less likely to speak out when they witness first hand, before being victimized, what ugliness speaking out can conjure.
My 14 year old niece was drugged and raped by my ex-husband. There was never a single doubt for me that she was telling the truth. Her mom (my ex-husband's sister) and I supported her as best we could in pursuing charges against my ex, maybe because we were both once victims of SA ourselves. Meanwhile, his mother - her grandmother - said my niece had been dressing and acting too provocatively. My ex was 43 years old at the time - how is it a 14 year old girl's responsibility to control the actions of a grown man? She trusted him and expected him to protect her - after all, this was the guy who'd changed her diapers and rocked her to sleep - who'd been through everything in life with her so far. My ex plead guilty - in a way, we were relieved because my niece wasn't required to testify - but his mother, her grandmother, still insists he only plead guilty to avoid a harsher sentence. She visits him in prison often.
Meanwhile, my once beautiful, strong niece has all but been destroyed. Her life is riddled by drugs, violence, and chaos. She was sentenced to life - her rapist gets released this year. That same grandmother states she's praying for her recovery but I'm left wondering if those prayers would be necessary had the people my niece loved and trusted had also trusted her. On the other side of the coin, I know how it feels to not be believed - my mom, an incest victim herself, refused to believe me when I told her I'd been date raped at 15. Why, I will never know but well remember the feelings of shame, anger, and hopelessness. It took 20 years for me to even be able to talk about it and I put myself through all kinds of hell first.
I think sometimes people simply forget that there are real human beings behind the cases we follow, the headlines we glance. His 40 accusers aren't simply newsprint, they're real blood and bone human beings with very human emotions.
All JMO and FWIW
And gave them drugs. It has always seemed so necrophiliac to me
all while using a forget-me-now pill
A quote from the article Donjeta posted.
They are making him out to be such a bad guy, a monster,” Camille said, according to the source.
Five or six different children, same woman, eight, ten different husbands or whatever, pretty soon you’re going to have to have DNA cards so you can tell who you’re making love to. You don’t who this is. It might be your grandmother. (laughter) I’m telling you, they’re young enough. Hey, you have a baby when you’re twelve. Your baby turns thirteen and has a baby, how old are you? Huh? Grandmother. By the time you’re twelve, you could have sex with your grandmother, you keep those numbers coming. I’m just predicting.
No way Im defending Cosby.But this wiping history out wit a swoop is akin to Nazi book burning.Context is everything.PhilSpector still plays
I say no more. It's like trying to judge Dr MLK Dream speech in 63 when you born in 86.Context is important.Lotta older cats ain't on here
A quote from the article Donjeta posted.
They are making him out to be such a bad guy, a monster,” Camille said, according to the source.
Chuck D from Public Enemy has weighed in on Twitter:
http://www.billboard.com/articles/c...xual-assault-controversy-public-enemy-twitter
I'm not sure what his point is. Young people don't understand that drugging and raping people wasn't as bad in the olden days? People should still keep the Cosby name attached to buildings because historically he was once thought a good person?
What does it take for us to take the accusations of women as seriously as we take the denials of those they accuse?
Our pop-cultural reactions to these cases matter, because they’re models for the way we treat these same issues when they arise in our own backyards. More often than not, what we call “withholding judgment” is really a steadfast refusal to take women and victims seriously — not actually a withholding at all, but a strong statement in favour of ignoring their voices until we are forced to do otherwise by someone we will listen to.
@JohnFugelsang
I heard Stockholm Syndrome was suffering from Camille Cosby.