CHANGING YOUR OPINION
Sometimes it's hard to change your opinion of a performer, celebrity or politician. I grew up with Bill Cosby comedy albums and remembering laughing so hard I cried. Reconciling this cherished childhood memory with his serial raping seems impossible. Also liked Al Franken a LOT. These kind of diametrically opposed perceptions are hard to figure out. Not sure how to go about this. Anybody else go thru something like this? What did you do?
Not with someone I was that enamored with. I liked some sports figures that I lost respect for when I found out they took steroids though. I moved on being that I didn't know them personally. When I found out that A-Rod was a steroid guy and an asshole, I still wanted him to do well when he was on the Yankees. There are some figures in the movies who have done some bad things, but I can still enjoy their movies. I still know they're assholes. Try to separate the art from the person. I have seen people do it with R. Kelly just to name one. I don't think there is any shame in enjoying something good or entertaining that someone has done, even if they are an asshole or did something like Cosby did. People knew that Jerry Lewis seemed to treat most people like shit, but still laughed at his comedy. I just wouldn't go around praising Cosby's work in public lol
If Bill Cosby would have been a nobody then no one would have ever care about a thing he may have or have not done
He will be in jail... so your point is?
@MarvelAnn I respectfully disagree. My point is that there are plenty of way worst dudes but no one cares because they are nobody..... That's really wrong. I am NOT saying Bill Cosby is right or innocent (I wasn't there), I am saying there are plenty of gulty SOG's that no one care because they don't have any resources lawyers would take advantage off.
If Cos were a (married!) nobody, he wouldn’t have young, sexy women and starletts coming to his PRIVATE hotel room by the dozens!
He well may have done some terrible things.
And personally, I think him AND MJackson should have been able to more successfully pursue their kinks, whatever they were/are...
But the court of public opinion has a VERY LOW standard of guilt or innocence...
I.e:
There is a difference between what you ACTUALLY did and what you are convicted of (what the law says you did).
In some prisons, it’s actually offensive to ask something like “What did you do?”. More proper is to ask, “What were you convicted of?”
Cos was not ‘caught in the act’ in any way. He denies what they claim...
a)Cos could have just ASKED most gals to take a KO drug - or just convincingly ACT unconscious. I am certain he would have had many takers!
b) MJackson could have found a very convincing small ADULT person to be a young boy for him. There are people who are remarkably good at this!
And again, what did he actually DO?
I bet he could have even found a different country with more lax laws to gain citizenship in and/or otherwise take legal advantage of (without also incurring US legal violation).
Hell, with MJ’s money, he could have developed a little boy ROBOT!
It takes no great imagination to see there were ways they could have at least TRIED (if they didn’t actually)...!
Remember, I said “more successfully” not pursue with unfettered permission!
I don't think it your opinion of people that changes in the light of relations about their abhorrent personal lives, but your esteem.
Comedy is reliant on the likeability of the comic or the comedian.
When you don't like them as a person anymore, or lose respect for them owing to evil behaviour, their talent, while remaining unaffected is tainted.
A case in point was Fatty Arbuckle. Once accused of rape and manslaughter his reputation suffered so badly that he could never work on screen again, even after being found innocent (the girl in question Virginia Rapp died of a drug overdose) however he did work as a producer, director and writer under his actual name Roscoe Arbuckle with no change in the opinion of his actual talent.