RE: Cosby Sentence
October 9, 2018 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2018 at 11:50 am by Huggy Bear.)
(October 9, 2018 at 9:22 am)LadyForCamus Wrote:(October 9, 2018 at 12:51 am)Huggy74 Wrote: Ladies, never once did I state I didn't believe you, or question why one would wait so long, but at the same time, we shouldn't just automatically assume one is guilty because he's accused by any number of women. When accusers are giving contradicting testimony or caught lying we need to take a step back and be objective.
I hate to bring up race, but race has ALWAYS been at the center of issues in America, it is what it is.
Never in the history of this country has a white woman accused a black man of rape and not been believed. Plenty of men have been lynched, whole black communities have been massacred and burned to the ground over rape ALLEGATIONS (Tulsa, Rosewood ect.). In fact "Black wall street" (Tulsa) was bombed from the air over a white woman accusing a black man of rape.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwood,_Tulsa
My next point is going to sound braggadocios, but from my experiences of being an average young single male, I have been approached by plenty of women, and have had sex with plenty of women. I can count on three fingers the amount of times I've approached a woman vs. the amount of time a woman has approached me, again, I'm just average. If any of those women decided to accuse me of rape, I'd be screwed if not for the statute of limitations, because how would I defend myself after all those years? I couldn't even tell you some of their names, let alone produce any evidence in my defense.
Cosby was a rich good looking dude so I could only imagine the amount of women he was approached by, added to the claim that he had to drug these women to have sex with them is absurd, again, based on my experience.
So my question to you ladies is...
Is it wrong to ask for evidence to support an accusation of rape?
Huggy, no one is saying that is wrong. What Shell and I are trying to communicate to you through our personal experiences; what people have been trying and failing to get through to you throughout this thread without anyone having to talk personally about their own rapes; is that there are legitimate, justified, psychological reasons victims of sexual assault don’t report the crime to authorities. The length of time that it takes for a victim to come forward is not related in any way to the likelihood of that person telling the truth about the assault. Of course, to convict a man in a court of law there should be some corroborating evidence to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. But, what we’re saying to you is, taking a long time to come forward is not evidence that contradicts an alleged assault. “If she was really raped, she would have told someone”, is a non-sequitur.
I've never once questioned why it took the accusers so long to come forward, it has no relevance to this case because statute of limitations is in effect. My issue is with the facts of the TRIAL which involved ONE woman and she went to the police within a year of the incident.
I don't believe anyone in this whole thread has stated “If she was really raped, she would have told someone”.
I believe we're in agreement for the most part, but I will address this.
(October 9, 2018 at 10:24 am)Shell B Wrote:Quote:Cosby was a rich good looking dude so I could only imagine the amount of women he was approached by, added to the claim that he had to drug these women to have sex with them is absurd, again, based on my experience.
That's a stretch. He was a goofy-ass motherfucker, if you ask me.
That's because you haven't seen a young Cosby, our introduction to Cosby was in the 80's - 90's which by that time he was in his 50's.