Leonardo the genius

So lame… people who should be sensitive about finger pointing… finger pointing and calling for cancellation.

Breaking news: Leonardo DiCaprio isn’t dating a 19 year old.

Funny old world we live in.

Dating a 19-year-old is pedophilia now? Sorry, I’m having trouble keeping up with all the new definitions. :sweat_smile:

He’d never get cancelled anyway. He makes bank.

You didn’t understand. He’s dating (or not?) a 19 yo lady only because it’s not legal to violate babies.

Apparently it’s a slippery slope and dating a 19 year old is no different to dating a 17 year old or even a 15 year old. There’s a chance that @Gain has misunderstood age of consent laws as meaning that he needs to consent, irrespective of what those involved think.

So did Johnny Depp, Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose. All got cancelled.

I think this is basically what it boils down to.

She’s 19, not a child. The comparison is apt, as was the comparison about Madonna

:chicken::egg:

I’ve known 19 year olds who were more adult than some 50 year olds I know

Maybe turn down the hate and turn up the perspective?

Cancelled by the studios, exonerated by the courts. As for public opinion, we’ll see

The other three, canceled for good reason. Different story.

I’m not aware of all these names, but we’ll see if Depp gets permanently cancelled and Weinstein was allowed to get away with it for decades.

Come on, in Hollywood genuine pedos and abusers aren’t cancelled if they make money. It’s a cesspit.

I wonder how all of you would react if your daughter tells you she’s dating someone as old as or older than you.

My 25 year old niece is dating a 40 year old. I don’t have a problem with it. My wife’s 13 years younger than me.

The last two were journalists that got metoo’d, not as heinous as Harvy, but pretty awful. Charlie Rose had a button on his desk to lock his office door

But they’re irrelevant here.

And I’m not even comparing. I’m giving him an scenario he can understand so that he can then address the important points/questions I posted: should people cancel other people who commit things they find “creepy” or “wrong”? or should people follow some standards for doing this, like an official list of things that are not kosher even if legal? who defines that list?

Of course he can’t answer those questions without acknowledging he’s wrong.

The age gap between DiCaprio and his prospective girlfriends is nearly 30, not 15.

If it was Leonardo Dicaprio, I’d say great. Her marriage prospects when they break up in 5 years will be fine. If he’s not going to settle down, kind of a kindness to let them go early, maybe even difficult for him some times, who knows?

But then, I would like to think I would raise my daughter the way I was raised. I wasn’t coddled my entire life, so I was an adult when I was 19 (not just legally)

Irrelevant. Again.

Apparently not!

If he’s not totally stupid he can understand it perfectly. But I guess it’s too tempting to use the victim card and pretend to be offended because supposedly I’m comparing pedophilia with homosexuality.