Bill Cosby and the Slow Death of Celebrity Impunity
The conviction of the actor and comedian is a testament to the power of #MeToo.
“Let’s face it: She went up to his house with a bare midriff and incense and bath salts. What the heck?”
That was in the 2017 trial of Bill Cosby, in which the actor and comedian defended himself against charges that, in 2004, he had drugged and then raped Andrea Constand, at the time a Temple University employee for whom he had served50 hours of deliberation, found itself about the facts of the case. And that anonymous juror suggested to the why the jury couldn’t bring itself to convict Cosby: It wasn’t clear to all 12 members, it seems, that the sex that took place between Cosby and Constand wasn’t consensual. After all: the bare midriff. And the incense.
