IN LIGHT OF DIDDY'S VERDICTS, ...

I have decided to repost something I wrote long ago.  It breaks my heart that women who speak up are rarely believed.  It breaks my heart that when a woman speaks up SHE is the one who is put on trial and an uber wealthy sick fuck can get away with disgusting and dehumanizing behavior perpetrated against a woman.  This country breaks my heart because there is no justice.  There is no justice if you are a victim or if you are poor, black, or brown.  Only if you have billions of dollars, then, and only then, are you entitled to justice.  

1.  Bill Cosby

So we have now learned that Bill Cosby admitted in his deposition that yes, he did in fact drug women in order to have sex with them.  He said it.  Under oath.  That's called admission.  Which means that Bill Cosby is in fact, a serial rapist.  Strong words for sure, but that's what he is.

Here's what kills me.  That after so many women ... FORTY-FIVE at last count ... came forward with incredibly similar stories with nothing to gain other than calling Cosby what he is, there were many who still did not believe them.  When you consider that the statute of limitations had already run making prosecution impossible, and they came forward anyway, they were accused of wanting money and having an axe to grind.  Blaming the women, the victims.  Why did they wait so long to tell their stories?  WHY?  BECAUSE THEY FEARED NO ONE WOULD BELIEVE THEM.  And they were right.  Who would believe Cliff Huxtable was capable of rape?  They have been re-victimized.  And the truth is that Bill Cosby drugged them and raped them.  All forty-five of them.  That makes him a serial rapist.  A criminal.  A danger to society.  America's most loved comedian ... A RAPIST. 

This is why rape is still the most under reported crime.  Short of getting the entire rape on film with the victim beaten and bloody, nine times out of ten the victim will not be believed and they are put through hell.  There are still those who believe that Mike Tyson was railroaded.  That Kobe Bryant was railroaded.  Granted, we weren't in those rooms when the "alleged" rapes took place, but these were both wealthy, powerful men.  How can you fight that?  Your character and reputation and sex life will be laid bare and you will be made out to be some sort of celebrity whore who is looking for a payday, or a woman who hates men and cries rape just for the sake of crying rape.  However, when a man gives a woman a Quaalude and waits for her to fall unconscious and then has his way with her ... THAT'S RAPE.  You wake up.  You know you've been violated somehow, but you don't remember anything.  HOW are you then going to accuse someone of sexual battery when you can't remember exactly what happened?  And the person that violated you is America's "DAD"?   

It angers me more than I can tell you that a woman can get raped and it is still HER fault.  It would be interesting to psychoanalyze Cosby to find out what in his life caused him to view women with such disdain.  After reading excerpts of his deposition it is apparent that he is a narcissist, but he is also arrogant and lacks understanding about what he did as being criminal.  It's mind-boggling. 

A few yeas ago I wrote a post on Rush Limbaugh during the Sandra Fluke incident where he called her a slut and a prostitute for speaking to House Democrats in support of mandating insurance coverage for contraceptives.  I want to repost it again, if only to prove that though women may have come a long way, some men have not.  Mind boggling when every man ever born came through a woman to get here. 

REPOST

I just had to post my comment regarding Rush's latest analogy on why men in power feel the need to behave like pervs. I post this question in all seriousness. I really do not mean to indict the right wing media, but how can any rational person agree with his summation that the reason powerful men behave like pigs is because the feminists have emasculated them to such a degree that they MUST act out.  In the words of Scooby-Doo ... "HUH?"  So, this is why Congressman Wiener took a pic of his dick and sent it into cyberspace?  Because Gloria Steinem is smarter than he is?

I want to thank the Lord above that this moron has never procreated. However, I do kinda wish he'd had at least one child ... a daughter ... who would then be subjected to all the wonderful attention, warranted and unwarranted, that comes one's way when one happens to be born of the female persuasion -- especially, God forbid, if you're "good looking."  And, if you're not so good looking and say you're plain or mousy, well, we all know what a ball busting, man hater you're going to grow up to be (Rush's words, not mine) .

I think Mr. Limbaugh needs a quick history lesson about all those man-hating "femi-nazis", as he so lovingly refers to them.

Once upon a time, a long time ago ... in 1978, Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler Magazine put a picture of a naked woman being fed head first into a meat grinder. Lovely. In her calm and straightforward manner, Ms. Steinem made a powerful observation regarding the cover. She said that had the depiction been that of a black man Mr. Flynt would have been made to answer for such a racist and hate filled image. Good point. However, the image was not that of a black man, but of a woman ... on the cover of a pornographic magazine.  It stirred up some controversy but not nearly enough. And though this was way back in 1978 the dehumanizing and demeaning of the female continues to this day and the sexualization of women is not only endorsed but supported. This is what those "femi-nazis" have been fighting to change since the 1960's. How then, can Rush Limbaugh have the audacity to blame the feminist for the deplorable and bone-headed behavior of men in power? It's asinine.

It's not Arnold's fault that he boinked the housekeeper and had an illegitimate child ... if Maria weren't so smart and acted like she "needed" him a little more this never would have happened ...

It's not John Edward's  fault that he boinked a bimbo and had an illegitimate child ... if Elizabeth weren't so smart and didn't get that cancer, it never would have happened ...

It's not Anthony Weiner's fault that he took a pic of his dick and sent it into the ether ... if his wife had been home in the kitchen where she belonged it never would have happened.

... and this Rush, is why you're an ass.  How you've manage to get three women to marry you is mind-boggling.