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Yes there is Frank Scotti, a 90-year-old ex-NBC employee, is the latest to go public with stories of Bill Cosby's past and "Tony Hogue banged furiously on the front door of Bill Cosby's Upper East Side brownstone. Every so often he shouted out and kicked the door, calling the name of his friend, a 23-year-old woman

Don't look at the post about this on the BET page at Facebook. This is not a game-changer for enough people, unfortunately. Still plenty of assholes out there, and SO MANY OF THEM WOMEN, who truly believe that every single woman who's accused Cosby is a lying whore out for cash. And that includes Beverly Johnson.

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I believed Dickinson when she spoke out, but I agree. People have been using her past behavior and reputation for drama to detract from her claims and discredit her. I think it's awesome that Johnson specifically vouches for her in her VF piece.

Obvs people are reaching in the first place, but what is the evidence people are presenting to suggest Janice is an attention seeker? Simply being on a reality TV show? By virtue of being less successful than Cosby? I haven't heard the arguments, but I can't think of anything she's done to even warrant that kind of

I mean, you can argue about her intentions as well, but he is also pretty clearly pressuring her to stay. And it doesn't matter "what she really wants in her heart," it's about what she expresses an intention to do, so if she says she wants to leave the guy should stop pressuring her, even if we all know what she

Exactly. I feel as though the few celebrities that have spoken out in support of Cosby (Ben Vereen, Jill Scott, Whoopi Goldberg) would swayed to reconsider by the word of Beverly Johnson.

If anything, Cosby is distinguished from the majority of black men in this country because he could depend on the powers that be for support and protection.

I dunno guys...she's only the 20th woman to come forward. Is there a man somewhere who can confirm all this???

Many of the other woman who've come forward were white. Janice Dickinson seems widely regarded as an unlikeable attention seeker, though I think most people who've heard her believe she's telling the truth about Cosby. As far as I know, Beverly Johnson is a highly respected, groundbreaking African American model. For

She just wants the attention and his money!!!!! - tone-deaf Cosby apologists

"You are a motherfucker aren't you?"

There is something so deeply deeply disturbing about reading these accounts...how calculated it all was. This is a man who knew EXACTLY what he was doing, had time to think about his actions, but instead made actual plans to rape women.

"You are a motherfucker aren't you?"

Horror after horror ... I feel like we're being punked. Also, do NOT fuck with Beverly Johnson. I admire her ability to stand her ground in the face off such a powerful man. I don't think I'd have the self possession or confidence to handle it like she did.

I will forever be indebted to the comedian who started this whole fire storm. Nothing makes me happier to know that Hannibal Buress called out that "pull up your pants", respectability politics, pudding pop rapist as the piece of slime he is. I only pray the hits keep coming.

It's funny you draw the analogy to transphobic shit written in the 70's, because I see feminists trying to use that exact argument to defend some other thought from their favorite 70's dumbass all the fucking time.

Look, it's not like the "no means try harder" that is STILL the premise of this song isn't alive and well today as part of rape culture. The idea that a woman saying no actually wants it is popular and helps EXCUSE rape. This song excused rape back then and it excuses rape now.

I very much disagree with that justification — the context doesn't make it any less uncomfortable. Yeah, sure, the "what's in this drink" line is just sort of a silly thing that sounds way more awful to modern ears, similar to men saying they feel 'gay' or whatever.

Nobody cares about the context in which it was written because the context in which we're hearing it now makes that shit creepy as fuck. Just cause something was totes cool in the 30s doesn't mean it's acceptable. It's like arguing that being transmisogynistic is FINE guys cause the feminist manifesto you're reading