![]() With enough women speaking, the noise was deafening.īetween Cosby and Weinstein, a man who claimed of women that he could “grab ‘em by the pussy” without consequences became the American president. There was power in numbers and women who had been powerless and vulnerable finally had the chance to speak out. Once his evisceration at the hands of keyboard warriors everywhere began, all women (and men too) saw that the landscape had changed. The women who stepped forward were no longer singled out as fame whores due to both their sheer numbers, and the fact that many didn’t need this kind of publicity. Anonymity bred contempt and the news went viral.Ĭosby’s crimes were reported and finally the world was watching. The Hollywood casting couch is a cliché that needs to be burned like manky furniture at a student flat party, and the irreverent denizens of Twitter are happy to set fire to whatever is handy. ![]() Social media was far less forgiving than the regular media which benefitted from the output of famous sexual predators. ![]() While Harvey Weinstein is now the poster violator for sexual assault, Bill Cosby’s accusers started the landslide in 2014, with over 50 women eventually coming forward to report his pattern of abuse that included drugging and rape. ![]()
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