Well. Mike Tyson is a convicted rapist and admitted wife beater and we still think he's the bees knees.
I really shouldn't be so surprised about Bill Cosby and how so many people are defending him and scolding & shaming the victims. Which is disgustingly reprehensible btw.
And people wonder why women/girls don't say anything.
Why say something years later?
Because you're backing up someone else. Because your mind won't let it heal.
Because it's probably still happening to others.
Because it's been living inside you and walking with you for years, eating at your dreams and thoughts and spirit.
Fame whores? Really? Famous for homely Bill Cosby raping them? That's something they want to be famous for? Really?
After money? Maybe one or two. Long shot. Putting themselves through the embarrassment, stress and ridicule for a little money?
These women know the statute of limitations has run out. They know a civil suit is probably out of the question too. Even if someone does bring one, it's not about money, it's about a small sense of victory.
I looked in to a civil suit against my daughter's molester. Not because he had money, because he didn't, he was a jobless, lush, addict living off his girlfriend & mother, kind of like he is now, still. I wanted him to pay a dollar every month. Just so he had to remember what he'd done and know he was paying for it.
My lawyer said it should be more. It was let go because literally, the loser would never have been able to make the payments.
It was for punishment. Not riches. Because money can't make that horrifying memory go away.
So, some of you know I pretend to be a writer. I was a prolific and mildly talented writer in my past. I dreamed novel sized stories, but could never get past the short ones, there were a couple I wrote out to 150 pages with the outline and general story written out, but they died there. It took me years to both realize and then accept, that I was no good at anything but some hybrid of prose and poetry that is heavily non conforming to the accepted rules of writing, grammar and english. My problem is rooted somewhere in one or more of my mental illnesses, I just can't absorb nor comprehend (translate to an understandable example) accepted structure and rules for any type of writing. The words go down on the paper the way they come into my head. They don't want to be amended, they come into my head the way my mind perceives them to be correct and meaningful to what I am trying to express, which in my skewed brain, is the correct form, again, to ME, but maybe not to anyone else....
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