CALIFORNIA
Toronto Sun
BY BILL HARRIS, POSTMEDIA NETWORK
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Jay Leno wonders why we believe men who say they were raped by priests decades ago, but we don’t tend to believe women who say they were sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby decades ago.
“Well, 50 women come forward and people call them liars,” said Leno, the former host of The Tonight Show, at the Television Critics Association tour on Thursday. “And they go, ‘Oh, you waited 40 years.’ You know, men waited 50 years to say, ‘A priest touched me.’ And they got 7 million dollars.
“How come we believe them and we don’t believe the women? You know, it does seem awful sexist to me. A woman says, ‘Oh, this happened to me, but I was too ashamed to say anything.’ Oh, you’re lying. But a man says it? ‘Oh, when I was 12 a priest raped me,’ or whatever it might be, then we have sympathy. It does seem terribly sexist that way. It does seem very unfair, and I’m surprised no one has ever made that analogy.
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