7/2017
Seems Bill Cosby is all the rage, these days.
He has been an American icon and role model for most of his adult life. He was viewed as a successful black man that had values. His comedy was clean, his extremely successful TV programs upheld traditional American family values and are still a presence on cable rerun channels today. He was a public figure admired for his character and for demanding personal responsibility for black youths.
Until now. Now he is the worst of the worst.
Basically, Cosby has been accused of date rape. No different than any of the college frat guys and others all across this country, for example. Just more notorious and in the public eye.
He is accused of giving another person a drug that may or may not affect their judgment and/or consciousness either with or without their knowledge with the intent (and the intent may have been before or after the fact) to have sexual contact.
Like men and women have been doing since substances that alter cognition have been known.
How do I know this?
Look at aboriginal cultures, there are countless documented rituals that involve mind-altering substances and sexual acts. Even today in less developed cultures, there are many of the same or similar rituals. Our own American culture, as recent as the 1950s, aggrandized the concept of getting laid using the “Spanish Fly” or dinner and a couple of stiff drinks. In the 1970s, rampant drug use fueled the “sexual revolution”, free sex and sex communes. Alcohol, barbiturates (pentothal or Thiopental and others), benzodiazepines (Xanax, Librium, Ativan and others), marijuana, roofies, ecstasy (a colloquial term for MDMA, an empathogenic drug) have all been eulogized as the date rape drug of choice during one era or another.
So, why do I bring this up?
Because, Cosby is being tried for something that happened 13 years ago. I just want to warn all those folks (basically every adult and some not quite an adult) that has ever indulged in the use of any or all of those substances (or more) and had sex (or thought they did). You just might end up on CNN sometime in the future if the trend continues.
Your grumpy Uncle/Brother Dave.
Weary.