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For the same reason some people waited 40 years to call out their priests for being pedophiles. For the same reason John Jamelske, Josef Fritzl, and Ariel Castro were able to get away with rape for decades before they were caught. Rape/sexual abuse has the effect of terrifying victims for long periods of time. That's what it's all about for a rapist though: power. Cosby, being in the position that he is, (which is basically Hollywood royalty) could have put many women in a position where they could be intimidated by his lawyers and dismissed by the general public. Who would believe that 'America's dad' was capable of molesting people. Wait... I'm getting something. Guess who else got caught doing something similar not too long ago?
If the guy from 7th Heaven who played a damn pastor is capable of molesting a kid, why not America's dad?
Yup, this is a very good post. There is a lot of truth that many women and men for whatever reason don't report sexual assault. Some of it stems from fear, some from embarrassment, some from the notion that nobody would believe that (insert abuser here) would ever do such a thing, and so on. Then you have the ones who know they are accusing for naught because money or power or whatever will protect the abuser. Then I think too there a lot who don't even realize until much later that they were even abused, because they put it out of their minds or because they were raised to not dare question the abuser (the priests are a great example of this happening). And then there are the ones who are getting abused by family members, and that's probably the hardest of all to report.
That said, there are also unfortunately a lot of nuts in the world so there are false accusations too. Which is why I take the Crosby accusations with a grain of salt until there is evidence (Constitution and all that).
I also remember the 1980s, and what's considered rape or date rape today was sadly viewed as "put your clothes on and run back across campus before someone sees you and it's all around Psychology 101 in 15 minutes that you're a slut", which is why back then it was far more common (and less reported) than it is today.