11-22-2014, 09:51 AM
Mags, there is no valid comparison to groupies back in the day and the alleged date rape victims in the Cosby case.
There is a consistent M.O. in all of the accounts. Cosby approached the women. He offered them mentoring, education and career guidance. For the younger ones, he ingratiated himself with their parents and family members. He delivered on what he promised, for a while, and they trusted him and depended on him. Then, he began drugging them and having sex with them when they didn't have the consciousness and motor skills to consent or resist. That's not a groupie scenario.
Kinda surprised me to read your theory that this is really a story about a bunch of unrelated women who chased after a young hot Cosby and then got together years later to claim they were drugged by him because they were embarrassed that they'd repeatedly slept with a black man. Very few, if any, women of any color would rather be called a stupid weak prostitute, liar, groupie (those kinds of things that posters here are suggesting, which aren't original when it comes to labeling repeat acquaintance/date rape victims) than acknowledge that they slept with a black man. It was the late 60s through the early 2000s that these incidents allegedly occurred, not 1949 and not limited to 1984. I don't see this being a conspiracy by a bunch of unrelated women to get revenge on Cosby for having sex with them while black.
You (collective you) don't have to find the women smart or sympathetic or deserving of a god damn thing. You can choose to believe that every one of them is lying and they all have it out for Bill Cosby for some reason. But, if you acknowledge that some of the date/drug rape allegations are quite likely true -- and you're compelled to make up excuses and situations that aren't part of the story in order to give Cosby a pass (MS's use of the term was accurate) --then you're supporting men luring and grooming stupid, needy, maybe greedy, young women in order to render them unconscious with drugs and have non-consensual sex with them. And, that's your prerogative.
There is a consistent M.O. in all of the accounts. Cosby approached the women. He offered them mentoring, education and career guidance. For the younger ones, he ingratiated himself with their parents and family members. He delivered on what he promised, for a while, and they trusted him and depended on him. Then, he began drugging them and having sex with them when they didn't have the consciousness and motor skills to consent or resist. That's not a groupie scenario.
Kinda surprised me to read your theory that this is really a story about a bunch of unrelated women who chased after a young hot Cosby and then got together years later to claim they were drugged by him because they were embarrassed that they'd repeatedly slept with a black man. Very few, if any, women of any color would rather be called a stupid weak prostitute, liar, groupie (those kinds of things that posters here are suggesting, which aren't original when it comes to labeling repeat acquaintance/date rape victims) than acknowledge that they slept with a black man. It was the late 60s through the early 2000s that these incidents allegedly occurred, not 1949 and not limited to 1984. I don't see this being a conspiracy by a bunch of unrelated women to get revenge on Cosby for having sex with them while black.
You (collective you) don't have to find the women smart or sympathetic or deserving of a god damn thing. You can choose to believe that every one of them is lying and they all have it out for Bill Cosby for some reason. But, if you acknowledge that some of the date/drug rape allegations are quite likely true -- and you're compelled to make up excuses and situations that aren't part of the story in order to give Cosby a pass (MS's use of the term was accurate) --then you're supporting men luring and grooming stupid, needy, maybe greedy, young women in order to render them unconscious with drugs and have non-consensual sex with them. And, that's your prerogative.