Larry Wilmore defines “rapist” for Bill Cosby

Larry Wilmore always finds new ways to delve deeper into the Bill Cosby story in his late-night show on Comedy Central. This time he used new York The magazine’s cover features pictures of all of Cosby’s alleged victims who have come forward to say that Cosby has “a vocabulary problem” and does not understand the definition of “rape.”

A “rapist,” Wilmore explained, is someone who “commits an illicit sexual act on another person without his or her consent, with or without force” and is “physically or mentally incapable of consent, whether through alcohol, drugs, or sleep.”

“By denying his victim sexual autonomy, a rapist increases his own deluded self-esteem. That is why a rapist can tell others to pull up their pants even though he himself has never done so,” Wilmore quipped.