BILL COSBY ACCUSED OF RAPE

[HairOfTheDog]

Here is short version of what i wrote. Beverly Johnson, actress and model has come out saying Cosby drugged and raped her.

I just need to stay off Facebook. I know I have said that before.....but i always go back.

I read Beverly's piece in Vanity Fair and watched an interview with her on Huff Post Live a couple of days ago.

I like her. And, she still looks gorgeous IMO.

She didn't get raped by Cosby, though. She says that he gained the trust of her and her small daughter and then told her he wanted to meet to go over a possible part on his show. At the meeting, he drugged her coffee. She figured out what was going on. She started yelling at him that he was a Mother Fucker and giving him all kinds of shit. He dragged her out to a cab and sent her off.



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For a long time I thought it was something that only happened to me, and that I was somehow responsible. So I kept my secret to myself, believing this truth needed to remain in the darkness. But the last four weeks have changed everything, as so many women have shared similar stories, of which the press have belatedly taken heed.

When I sat down to write my memoir in 2013, I pondered if I should include my Cosby experience. I didn't want to get involved in a he-said/she-said situation. Now that other women have come forward with their nightmare stories, I join them.

I had to use my voice as a sister, mother, and grandmother, and as a woman who knows that, according to the C.D.C., nearly one in five women has been sexually assaulted at some time in her life, and that women of color face an even higher attack rate.

In part because of what happened to me nearly 30 years ago, I have agreed to serve on the board of the Barbara Sinatra Center for Abused Children. The experience has been as humbling as it has been rewarding. Many of the young children I work with have been sexually abused and I watch in awe of their bravery as they work to recover and feel better. How could I be any less brave?

Story: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/1...nson-story#
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Times change, sometimes for the better. Not everyone's mindsets change with increased awareness/disclosure though.

Women don't have to disappear for 9 months if they get pregnant without being married anymore. Homosexuals don't have to marry someone of the opposite sex and pretend to be satisfied anymore. These days, more parents think twice about blindly trusting their children to take overnight trips with the local pastor without finding out more about him in advance. And, some people understand that forms of rape that were taboo or self-destructive to talk about 30 years ago are no longer quite as risky to discuss (even if the rapist is still very powerful; getting it out is said to be quite cathartic).

Anyway, you're an effin' feisty feminist Facebook fighter, blueberry. I sense your frustration, but like reading about your internet altercations -- the ones you share are usually centered around topics of social importance and controversy (and include a historical and present day perspective). Stay in the ring, Rocky.