[QUOTE=Starving Artist]
The bolded parts raise a couple of questions in my mind. One: why, in this country where women are almost always given custody of their children no matter how bad a parent they may be, did her husband have primary custody of their daughter?
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[QUOTE=iiandyiii]
Who cares? This isn’t relevant.
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It is relevant. I’m not trying to put words in your mouth, but I think you are making the point that it is irrelevant because a woman can be raped even if she is a bad person. Yes, agreed. I don’t think that anyone disputes that.
You are assuming that she was raped (or in this instance, drugged and tossed out the door) when the whole point of this exercise is to determine that very fact.
When evaluating someone’s propensity for truthfulness, it is fair to look at their past history with drug use and a possible inference of a character so poor that they are denied custody of their children when others similarly situated have such custody.
It’s the same when a prostitute claims to have been raped. The disbelief is not that a prostitute cannot be raped, per se, but that her truthfulness is called into question when she readily sells herself for sex 99 times out of 100 but on this 1 night she really, really didn’t consent.
I don’t know Bill Cosby or any of these women. There are no independent witnesses. Even admitting that we aren’t in a court of law, there is no reason to believe any person to the exclusion of the other. I certainly can’t proclaim Cosby’s innocence, so it puzzles me why some are so sure of his guilt.
It is entirely reasonable for me to assume that Cosby was a real poon hound and out of the thousands of women he likely had close contact with, there are fifteen or twenty who are either crazy, liars, money hungry, or doing it for whatever reason.
It is also entirely reasonable that Cosby is a rapist who cannot accept that a woman would scorn his advances. I’m not going to throw all of his records, tapes and DVDs into a pile and piss all over them based on these unsubstantiated allegations.