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a lawful responsibility?

Why are you in hiding?

There's certainly sometimes that Gloria,

you know, puts herself out there

in a way that, you know,

is sort of like, "Wow."

[Maroko] At least every third

or fourth hour, we say that. "Oy vey."

[Goldberg] If you're going to be

putting yourself out there,

advocating in this way,

you have to be prepared

for the fact that not everybody

is gonna agree with you.

[man] Gloria Allred became

the first woman member

of the Los Angeles Friars Club.

Their action shows leadership,

courage, and good will.

It will require working out problems

such as what to do about the steam room

and the famous all-male stag roast.

Oh, that's what I want

to talk to you about.

[Allred] Once I became

a member of the Friars Club,

I wanted to use the health club,

the steam room.

And I was told,

"Well, the men are in there naked,

so they don't want women in there. "

I'm interested in the bare facts

and the naked truth,

but I am not interested

in seeing male friars naked.

And I don't intend to go in there naked,

I intend to go in there in a bathing suit.

So I knocked on the door

of the steam room.

I said, "I'm coming in."

Men were in there, naked.

And I whipped out my tape measure

and I started singing Peggy Lee's

"Is That All There Is?"

Is That All There Is

At that point, I heard a lot of towels

being slapped around naked butts,

people running out of the steam room.

That ended the issue,

and women were allowed

to use the steam room.

Women like you, you feminists...

You know what she's trying to do?

Turn women into men!

[startled reaction from audience]

We don't think that our daughters

should have to trade sexual favors

in order to get a raise.

-Why not? We did.

-Well...

[laughter, scattered applause]

How do you think we'd get on this show?

[laughter]

I want to see you in my dressing room

after the show.

I know!

She talked about sexual harassment

when nobody wanted to talk about it.

Must a woman prove that she has been

psychologically injured

in order to sue for sexual harassment

in the workplace?

[Levenson] She kept pushing and fighting,

and now more people are talking about it,

but they associate Gloria

with the pushing and the fighting.

I have to ask you,

why to you put the women down?

The women are taken very well-cared

in America.

Women have the best life in the world

in America.

Why do you always have

to fight so much?

[cheering and applause]

[Levenson] People say, "She's loud,

she's got an ego,

she must just love the camera."

And then I just sort of pause and say,

"Haven't you met any men like that?"

Here's a feminist philosophy

I want you to listen to.

"Comparable work".

Come on, Gloria.

I mean, why shouldn't a nurse make as much

as a garbage collector?

Fine.

Let the nurse become a garbage collector

and ride that truck.

Because we need nurses. We don't want

nurses to leave the profession.

We need garbage collectors too.

They need to come and pick up this garbage

you're spewing right now.

[laughter]

I think Gloria handles being attacked

quite well. I think she expects it.

She sees it as a plus

for her overall agenda

of being out there

with her point of view.

This whole subject

of gays legalizing marriage

and children being adopted by gays

is positively disgusting.

-[man] Yeah!

-[applause]

Until 1961, sodomy was outlawed,

homosexual sodomy,

in all 50 states.

That's not an archaic law.

That's our society saying no to sodomy.

Let's dispel this myth

of the wonderful traditional family.

That was the family in which women

had to obey their husbands,

in which women had no property rights.

We don't necessarily want

the traditional family,

which didn't even allow

interracial marriages,

which sir, were a crime

even up to 30 years ago in this country.

And just because it was a crime

didn't make it right.

It meant it was prejudice!

[cheers and applause]

[Allred] Thank you for coming today.

I'm attorney Gloria Allred.

Tomorrow, Bill Cosby

will perform his far-from-finished tour

in Atlanta, Georgia.

He is performing, despite the fact

that more than 40 women

have publicly accused him

of drugging and sexually assaulting them.

In the early 1990s,

during the last season of The Cosby Show,

I guest-starred as Mrs. Minifield.

After he had won my complete trust

and admiration,

he drugged and raped me.

-Well, I guess I'm off.

-Yes, in more ways than one.

[laughter]

[Bernard] His last words to me were,

"As far as I'm concerned, Bernard,

you're dead."

[crying]

[woman] So, how do you feel?

I feel good.

I feel changed.

I feel like I've purged.

Gloria's representing me and I don't know

how many others pro bono,

so she's not getting any money

for anything that she's doing.

And she's just giving.

She's like, "Auntie."

You know, I call her "Auntie Gloria"

sometimes.

I keep telling her,

"You're so sweet and kind."

She says, "I can't let them know

how really nice I am, you know,

because then they won't

be afraid of me," which is true.

It's amazing to me when I read

the comments of people who hate her,

you know, because she's out there

busting people's balls, you know.

And she's a true hardcore feminist.

She's righteous.

And what this whole Cosby experience

has taught me

that women are still so devalued.

We believe the women!

We believe the women!

Their voices are so devalued.

I've come to the protest in Atlanta today

to support those who are protesting

Bill Cosby's far-from-finished

concert tour,

and to deliver a message to Bill Cosby.

Women are now empowered

and they will never be silent again.

-Is that right?

-Yes!

-I'm not crying.

-Oh, what's this?

Oh, no, no. I'm just tired.

-Oh.

-I'm not crying at all.

-Just wet eyes, wet eyes.

-Oh, no, no.

I-- no.

-Allred does not cry.

-No.

Court documents were unsealed

in which Cosby admitted under oath

that he obtained Quaaludes to give women

before having sex with them.

"Yes... I give her quaaludes.

We then have sex."

[man] Crews cleaned off the star

on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

after someone wrote

the word "rapist" on it.

[Goldberg] It looks bad, Bill.

If this is to be tried

in the court of public opinion,

I got to say, all of the information

that's out there

kind of points to guilt.

How many of you believe

you were drugged by Bill Cosby?

[Allred] I do think there was a shift

in public opinion

as more and more women came out

and told their story.

The numbers became startling.

You know, there were press saying to me,

"What's your end-game, Gloria?"

I really had no answer to that.

I didn't have an endgame.

Speaking out for women in and of itself

is an empowering experience.

There doesn't have to be an end to that.

[woman] Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby

arm-in-arm with his legal team

as he arrives for his arraignment

in Pennsylvania Wednesday.

[man] Mr. Cosby, anything to say?

[Allred] I was in bed in my pajamas.

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