Editor’s note: TheWrap’s CEO and editor-in-chief addresses reader outrage over this post and the headline has been updated accordingly to response. Read Sharon Waxman‘s letter from the editor here.
UPDATE Nov. 23, 2014 1:24 p.m. PT:
Mea Culpa
The furor over my recent blog that was misconstrued as defending Bill Cosby was unexpected, but not unwarranted.
I apologize to anyone who has faced the horrific physical and mental pain that comes with forcible abuse and unwelcome sexual advances. Rape is a strong term, and we often forget that what might appear as protestations that are muted by either the deliberate or clandestine ingestion of drugs is as heinous as being forced to submit sexually at gun point.