And for that matter, somebody needs to sue Jackie Gleason's estate because of the way he encouraged the battering of women. You remember all the threats of violence he made to his 'Honeymooners' wife .... "Someday, Alice — POW! Right in the kisser!"
Uhh, Bill...
Ralph Kramden was a
fictional character.... (And besides, as I've pointed out before, in that fictional relationship it wasn't Ralph, for all his bombast, who was the
truly abusive one...it was
Alice...)
There's never been any suggestion that Gleason, for all his character flaws, (and they were many) was ever abusive towards any of the women in his life, let alone that he ever
raped any of them...
If you want to talk about celebrities:
Groucho Marx was psychologically abusive towards all three of his wives...
Because of some deep-seated psychological issues of his own, he sought out and married women
who he knew going in were no where near his intellectual equal, and who also suffered from substance abuse issues...
And
then, after they were married, he belittled and scorned them for having the weaknesses that he already knew they had...
But while that sort of psychological cruelty is reprehensible, it is in
no way on a par with a man who drugged and sexually assaulted dozens of women over a fifty year period...
ETA:
There really is no comparison that can be made with Cosby...
Not just among celebrities...
Cosby is quite likely among the most prolific sexual predators and rapists in American history...
