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I feel like a lot of time the people most guilty of something are the ones that speak out the most against it…guilty conscience maybe but more likely just thinking it will make them less guilty looking.
Compartmentalization. Some people are really good at it. It’s the thing that allows you to rape your slave and also write the Declaration of Independence. Which aspect of that person is the truth? Can it be both?
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About the only thing I recall about A Different World (I was a regular The Cosby Show viewer but only managed to watch the first few episodes of the spin off which left me flat) was the huge stink that erupted over it’s main star, Lisa Bonet’s sex scene performances, in the under-rated macabre and erotic thriller Angel Heart by Alan Parker (of Midnight Express and Pink Floyd – The Wall Fame).
It looks like Cosby’s solution to that whole bothersome* “What if she says no but means yes” dilemma* was to take her words and her intentions off the table entirely.
*In case it’s not obvious: snark.
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Don’t listen to her mouth either, just put it in there. (JOKE, RELAX)
He probably doesn’t think he raped anyone. He got them high and they has sex with him. He probably thinks it was consensual. He probably thinks he’s a great guy.
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Alan Parker was also of Fame fame, so Debbie Allen may have put in a good word for Bonet.
“Its perennial utility as a conversation piece on the topic renders it timelessly useful for broaching these discussions with impressionable men.”
It’s usefulness renders it useful? And LOL@impressionable anyone responding to something broadcast on “A Different World” in 2015. Did the author of this piece go outside recently? It’s like “Shadowrun” out there already, except the orcs and magic haven’t shown up yet. I remain confident that they will do so SOON.
Amma Marfo - futuristic name, dated Netflix queue. Now it really is “A Different World,” Theo. (Was Theo on that show? I didn’t even watch it at the time! Fucking LOL at watching it in 2015 except while high, which I guess doesn’t exclude it being used as a teaching tool on campus at least)
there is darkness in the hearts of all public moralizers IMO, it’s always the same
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Speaking of public moralizers, the screenwriting sure is PC and idiotic:
Dwayne: Now you know her mouth is saying “no,” but you’re sure there are parts of her saying “yes,” not to mention parts of you. What part do you listen to?
Walter: Her mouth! And then you go outside, take a swim in an unheated pool**.
Sounds like after-school-special meets some Christian college orientation.
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Another show created by Cosby (albeit one that he had a less hands-on role in producing), showed that the embattled 77-year old comedian knew the difference between right and wrong.
Bill Cosby didn’t write, direct, or produce that episode. He created “A Different World,” but not that episode.
Whether Bill Cosby “knew the difference between right and wrong” can’t be determined from that episode.
This sounds like “The Tell-Tail Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe.
Not to start a long discussion, but that seems more like someone that is trying to convince you that something bad he did was actually ok.
Whereas Cosby is trying to make you think he doesn’t do some bad thing, because he’s telling other people not to do it.
Similar to the preachers that preach the loudest against sexual sins that then get caught in the very sexual sins they were yelling against.
No more about BillCosby…please.