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    AnnaHillary Crosley Coker
    2/02/16 6:46pm

    Hooray, progress! Next on the to-do list:

    People need to start taking creeps like Woody Allen and Terry Richardson seriously. If Cosby taught us anything, it’s that where there’s massive amounts of smoke, there really is a fire.

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      welllahdeedahAnna
      2/02/16 8:56pm

      Especially when there are women who have come forward. It’s like their word means nothing until it’s somehow validated, however helpfully, by the words of someone else, long after the fact - and usually long after the statute of limitations is up.

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      KaphooliganAnna
      2/02/16 11:49pm

      What did Woody Allen Do?

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    ThinmintHillary Crosley Coker
    2/02/16 7:05pm

    As a woman who didn’t speak of being raped to my friends let alone the police prior to the Cosby publicity, I can attest that the public spotlight on the issue made it much easier to broach the subject with friends. In turn this resulted in me finding out that more than one of my friends had experienced similar situations with the SAME perpetrator.

    Once I knew I wasn’t the only one I HAD TO tell the police (along with one friend who also made a report). As far as I'm aware the police weren’t able to act on the reports (ie. press charges that would hold any water) due to the 3year time lapse and lack of solid evidence but I still was pleased to have something on the record because it seems only a matter of time before he does it again... and I’d be happy to be a character witness.

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      ShezzalovesWatsonThinmint
      2/02/16 7:32pm

      Good for you! And good for your friend too!

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      whyorwhynotThinmint
      2/02/16 7:54pm

      I remember reading about a study of college rapists and they had an average of 6 victims each. Even if victims don’t go to the police, they can still warn other women they know. It will be harder for predators to operate when they develop a bad reputation.

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    jinniHillary Crosley Coker
    2/02/16 6:23pm

    Kudos to those brave women who dared to stand.

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      dothedewjinni
      2/03/16 1:10am

      At this point it may be easier to just refer to women who were not assaulted by Cosby

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    jpomonkeyHillary Crosley Coker
    2/02/16 7:41pm

    Ugh fucking trolls. The dismiss button is our friend.

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      The Otters Knew Alex Was Still Aroundjpomonkey
      2/02/16 9:50pm

      Seriously. Use it with wild abandon!

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      jpomonkeyThe Otters Knew Alex Was Still Around
      2/02/16 10:23pm

      Sucks when people reply and take them out of the greys. They deserve nothing.

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    Jurassic PorkerHillary Crosley Coker
    2/02/16 6:33pm
    GIF

    Yay cops are being trained to treat rape victims/survivors as human beings!

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      TakahashiJurassic Porker
      2/02/16 9:09pm

      Follow up yay: the public is slowly learning that the number one cause of rape is...*drum roll* RAPISTS!

      (Who knew, guys?)

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      Cat Tarsus SinusTakahashi
      2/02/16 9:15pm

      I wanted to make a pithy comment about how shocking that sounded, but then I sadly realized that there are far too many people to whom that actually would be a revelation. :(

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    TakahashiHillary Crosley Coker
    2/02/16 9:07pm

    C’mon, guys! There are only 50+ women who have come out. That’s not that many people. Are you really sure that Cosby is your guy? Don’t you think they’re all jealous of his success? I mean that’s what this is really about: there wasn’t enough Cosby to go around.

    —Your Local MRA

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      o0MRG0oTakahashi
      2/02/16 9:23pm

      I didn’t think this was funny or particularly clever; no star for you.

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      InfiniteDemonMachineTakahashi
      2/03/16 12:38am

      You can only buy so many quaaludes before people get suspicious!

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    CaliforlifeHillary Crosley Coker
    2/02/16 6:26pm

    Good. Better: when he’s behind bars.

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      JustthefactsStanHillary Crosley Coker
      2/02/16 6:53pm

      I would like to think that the survivors of Bill Cosby (and not Bill Cosby himself, or his downfall) are a catalyst for the changing view of those report their rape. But I will take what I can get!

      I will also say that we still have a long way to go in this country when it comes to taking rape charges seriously and not shaming those who come forward. We also need to stop using wildly outdated tropes that conflate sex with rape or that pardon, defend or look away from men of power and status who are accused of rape.

      BTW, that whole not-shaming thing? It also needs to extend to people who don’t feel they can report their rape or their rapist (see: we still have a long way to go.)

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        MeBrillantHillary Crosley Coker
        2/02/16 7:16pm

        I never understood they way police investigate rape and sexual assault. I mean obviously you not supposed to automatically believe anyone because the job is to uncover the truth. But their ways of interviewing the alleged victim and alleged perpetrator have always been suspect. This idea of police going with their gut and then framing the questions to get the result they want have allowed a lot of innocent people in prison and a lot of victims without justice. Without an overhaul police training I am not sure more people reporting will decrease rape or sexual assault.

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          Anne42MeBrillant
          2/02/16 7:50pm

          100% this. As an outsider who works vaguely in law enforcement in anothe jurisdiction, it seems to me that the problem with policing in the US runs much deeper than just the way victims are handled.

          As I understand it the police in much of the US still use a method of interviewing which is known as the Reid method, the aim of which is to extract convictions from alleged perpetrators. It’s considered hugely outdated in a lot of others countries as (surprise surprise!) it leads to a rather high number of false confessions. In NZ we generally use what’s known as the PEACE model of interviewing, the purpose of which is broadly to obtain information from witnesses, and to put information to suspects. Confessions are secondary, but can be obtained if you’ve investigated thoroughly and put the evidence to them properly. It’s not a perfect technique but it’s light years ahead.

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        TeaSnark71Hillary Crosley Coker
        2/02/16 6:30pm

        This is good.

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