When I was little, I was in my room crying after one of the two times my mom seriously beat my ass. My mom was in another room talking with my aunt about why she was upset and why she had whooped my ass, giving “her” side of the story. So I yelled out, “YOU WOULDNT SEE THAT ON THE COSBY SHOW!” To which my forever awesome mom immediately screamed back, “BUT YOU WOULD ON ROSEANNE!” and slammed the door to the room her and my aunt were in.

The Cosby show WAS the standard for how life should be. So, in 2005 when I read about the allegations and the lawsuit, because I care about justice for victims of sexual assault and Cosby, I investigated it and read extensively what I could find. What I found lead me to believe there wasn’t much to it and it had been settled out of court. Actually what I decided upon was the woman wasn’t credible. At this point in time I have no idea why I came to that conclusion, but that’s what I thought and moved on. So this current outrage really upsets me, WHERE WERE YOU IN 2005? If this is such an issue of importance? NOTHING has changed since 2005, no new charges, no new evidence, no new convictions, just a comedian who made a joke and the rage machine of the internet in full effect. Maybe I have lost my mind, but even in the midst of the current court statements, my understanding is Cosby said he got drugs for women he wanted to have sex with. The one woman he said he gave the drugs to testified in court that she voluntarily took the drugs from Cosby. This information has now morphed into “COSBY ADMITS TO RAPE” in articles I see my friends posting, so maybe I have lost my mind, I believe women, I believe them until I am given cause to think otherwise and then I don’t know, this isn’t saying Cosby didn’t do it, it seems VERY likely, but I don’t definitely know. Maybe I watched too much Law & Order, but people being taken down in the court of public opinion is not my preferred measure of justice.