The Cosby Lesson - Why We Need Women's Stories
Photo By Amanda Demme for New York Magazine New York Magazine just published a piece on 35 women who were willing to come forward with stories of being assaulted by Bill Cosby over the years. These allegations were first made decades ago and yet they have been largely ignored. Now documents obtained by the New York Times show the veracity of their claims, in Cosby's own words, and new attention and legitimacy has been given to the issue. Why does the Bechdel Project care? It is no accident that a culture whose stories ignore and gloss over women, is also a culture that actually ignores and glosses over women. The Bechdel Project wants to be a part of changing that. The New York Magazine article , in addition to the recent media coverage, has brought many of these women together for the first time. They were all interviewed separately, but what is shocking is that their stories are so similar, from the descriptions of their interactions with Cosby,...