I think that would be better in everyone’s mind. Although, that seems unlikely.

Though I’ve been following the Cosby allegation stories for a while, your post made a great point that I haven’t seen anywhere else. It makes a lot of sense.

I read about this, I think it’s called the “sunken cost fallacy.”

We want to think the best of those we love. I’ve seen a lot of people completely dismiss wrongdoings by loved ones and family members for that reason.

I can see it. Think about someone in your life that you know well. Really well. That you trust and love. Now, imagine finding out that this person has been doing something like this. On, say, business trips. Never at home, never on his own turf. Just this regular guy you know. You’ve been alone with him scores of…

Oh yeah. And it’s sad, how many people are like “oh, so and so would never do that.” It's pretty easy for people like parents or spouses to be unbelievably abusive and get away with it when they put on such a wonderful mask to the world and then no one believes their victims.

Agreed. We all fervently hope that we’d have the courage and strength to recognise the truth about someone we love, but I can’t imagine that many of us would succeed.

Has Camille ever been given an IQ test or been hit on the head really hard?

Denial is a hell of a drug (stronger than quaaludes, even). It’s easier for her to blame the women and convince herself that the women “were asking for it” by being alone with a married man in the first place. So, yes, she’s been an enabler all these years...and she constructed a reality long ago that absolved her…

Maybe she was hoping that he would have died sooner.

Money.

The woman is 71. She was brought up in an era when you stayed with a man no matter what: infidelity, beatings, drug addictions, him having children outside the marriage, etc. Add to that the fact that she’s his business manager and her whole identity is tied up with being Mrs. Dr. Bill Cosby, and you got someone…

He’s clearly abusive. Let’s have some compassion for her and the literal decades of grooming that have happened. What is she supposed to do now?

People are non-monogamous all the time— who knows if he was even deceiving her on that front? There is a huge, huge difference between being married to someone who sleeps around and being married to a serial rapist, even without the added factors of money, reputation, etc.

Did she sign some sort of ironclad prenuptial agreement that says she gets less than nothing if they get divorced, no matter the circumstances? Why would she stay through all this? Did she help him get the drugs? Better those girls than her? What is she afraid of? Is she just as much of a monster as he is?

Wow, she is really intent on going down with that ship.

“Women consented to drugs and sex”

yesssss! I will eat at the Honkey Bucket over the Caucasian Barrel any day.

There’s no way in hell it’s serious; “their logo stereotypes European Americans as people who sit on chairs” is a dead giveaway on that. It’s definitely satire, the only question is satire of what?

Sorry, I went straight to a literal reading of that. Perhaps I am a bit overly sensitive because goddammit people say shit about my poor, sad only child’s life ALL THE TIME. Poor little loner with no social skills, poor future man who will have to take care of you in old age all alone, poor little guy with no kids to…