Bill Cosby was charged on Wednesday with drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004 at his home in Pennsylvania.
Read the affidavit filed against Cosby:
READ: Police Affidavit Filed Against Bill Cosby In Sexual Assault Case
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December 30, 2015 10:55 a.m.
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Sorry, I’ve read to page 2. But, if anyone ever ‘“out of the blue”’ or not “unbuttoned…pants and began touching” my body without my consent I would never be alone with them again, specially if they were rich and famous.
(PS-Not a Cosby supporter in all this.)
This is difficult to understand, but I think it fits in the same category as women who have suffered physical abuse who cannot seem to make themselves leave their abuser. It also seems that it would be hard to accept that a person would take advantage in this way, especially after establishing some kind of rapport or mentor relationship.
Ultimately, we often convince ourselves that we have been complicit in some way when we allow ourselves to be tricked, and that makes it hard to acknowledge the event to oneself. Abusers are very good at sending mixed messages that keep the abused from openly rebelling against their manipulations.
And of course, Cosby was immensely powerful in the sense that he could affect the careers of the women that he used in this way, again making it hard to confront him effectively.
That’s my admittedly amateur take on the psychology of it all.
And the lure of celebrity, the trust created by regular network appearances in millions of living rooms as we note elsewhere, cough, cough…Finding fault here isn’t the problem, it’s the serial avoidance of justice.
True, and she very well may have believed she led him on in some way, that it was she who was sending mixed messages.
A serious case of afluenza here. I hope they throw away the key. Poor folks go to jail and the rich buy off lawyers. Sickening.