Bill Cosby has been doing that for like a hundred years.

He did work with the one writer though, right? She wasn’t an employee but arguably still not as powerful as him within their work setting.

I don’t think he was any of their bosses. For instance, the two women back in 2003 weren’t his employees—they were all just comedians performing at a festival; however, he was a really big deal and they were relative nobodies.

The witch hunt is not about holding people responsible. It’s about losing every sense of pespective, context and severity of accusations. Dustin Hoffman in one picture next to guys who have been accused of rape by a multitude of women for dirty jokes and grabbing a butt 30+ years ago? Ben Affleck for grabbing a boob…

I mean dementia does kind of excuse that behavior. It doesn’t make it right, but you are dealing with a person who no longer has control of his or her mind. If that is the case, the onus is on the caregiver to keep the person away from other people.

It is unfortunately true. I’ve been touched and spoken to inappropriately, by both men and women. I usually tell them firmly that they can’t speak to/touch me like that. If it continues, it’s (almost) always because they can’t stop.

Probably Kim Jong Un because Donald Trump already fucks me every day.

“dudebro sharia law.”

I think Leo is a dingleberry, but it’s the NYDN that posits he’s “worried” so I’d take it with a large grain of salt before you decide he’s guilty of something based on one night out where he wasn’t actively trying to pick up women.

On the flip, when someone anonymously accuses another of rape, the accused has no evidence to defend themselves with, guilty or not.

Shes not even claiming she was the one who was raped.

Listen to yourself for a minute. “Privilege of doubt”. Do you mean the right to be considered innocent before proven guilty? We should throw away one of the most important corner stones of our legal system for one type of crime? This is why emotion isn’t supposed to enter the process.

Agreed. I appreciate her quest for justice, but she’s also helped create a situation that pressures her friends, the victims she’s seeking to protect, to come forward in order to exonerate her of defamation. It’s a flawed way to go about allyship.

Saying a person is alleged isn’t giving them the privilege of doubt. It’s just a way of saying you don’t have any actual proof or that the person in question hasn’t been convicted. If you have some form of audience and influence I would think you could be sued for slander or libel if you leave out the “alleged” or…

It’s one thing to give your own account or support someone else’s but to speak on their behalf when they haven’t said anything publicly is going too far. They didn’t even come forward when she was sued.

the point is to send a clear and direct message that calling someone a rapist based on hearsay is grounds for a defamation (or libel, if printed) lawsuit. it is designed to get the attention of the public, via the press, by including such a massive number (jezebel is playing right into their hands), and although I…

I think the crux here is nobody has made an accusation publicly to stand behind.

I agree entirely.

This may sound crazy but you should probably have some shred of evidence before you publicly call someone a rapist.

That song is terrible and Solange wants her video treatment back.