Speaking of Cosby, there's an article on CNN about 'Rape Culture' being to blame.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/20/opini ... ?hpt=hp_c3
I'd say that it's celebrity culture, mixed with a degree of benevolent racism that is one of the underlying issues in this case.
For those that don't know, Cosby has been accused of being a serial sexual assaulter for years. In his case multiple women have claimed that he used drugs to knock them unconscious before assaulting them.
This has been known for years - it's not a recent allegation.
The writer of this article (which is not entirely bad - although a lot of it IS bad) tries to shoehorn the entire issue into the standard rape culture argument - that it's the fault of patriarchy. Apparently nobody listened to the womens complaints, it was only when a male comedian brought it up in a comedy routine recently that it has come to light - which is bullshit, there have been many articles written by both men and women over the past decade of so, about allegations on Cosby's part.
You could make the argument that feminists promotion of the idea of sexual assault being treated lightly provides the opportunity for the media to finally take the issue seriously, but you also would have to admit that the media goes lightly on celebrities who are subject to these kind of allegations.
Would a non celeb have been treated the same way? I doubt it.
If Cosby is the most high profile individual accused of these crimes, can we ask why the usual crew - FTB, Skepchick, Marcotte etc, avoided the Cosby question (which, to me, appears a much more tighter case - the allegations usually involved him giving drugs that knocked the woman unconscious, rather than the standard drunken sex issues) in favor of cases that are much more ambiguous and without any hope of proof either way?
