[af_vet_1981]

And Cosby was a married man. That doesn’t mean that he couldn’t have been guilty of rape; but it suggests that the women who blithely ‘dated’ him lacked a certain amount of integrity themselves. Maybe they were just young, stupid, vulnerable, etc. - but the situation still requires a certain amount of personal responsibility on the part of the woman.

(A lady doesn’t go to a married man’s hotel room, alone with him, for a drink...and what does a man usually think, when she does?).

I think this is what the Clinton supporters said when President Clinton was accused of sexually assaulting Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey, not to mention others. Its sad to see the blame the victim mentality on FR.

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t intend to ‘blame the victim’ - if such victim(s) exist.

I’m suggesting that women do have some responsibility to try and protect themselves; to be wise and not foolish.

After all, ‘I am Woman, Hear me Roar!’ /s

And I’m tired of hearing about women who willingly put themselves in dangerous situations, and then whine about the fact that they got hurt. That isn’t ‘Liberation’ to me; it’s just looking for some other institutional replacement for the “patriarchy” that they’ve rejected; so that they can continue being reckless and foolish.

Women are assaulted all the time, through no fault of their own. That’s tragic. But when women willingly put themselves into dodgy situations, they have to at least accept some responsibility.

I don’t think the situations you mention are the same as the women who are accusing Cosby; I don’t see the same willing ‘pattern’ to be in the man’s company on personal time, and repeatedly.

-JT