The Barton story is most powerful not as an attack on one man, but as evidence that Hollywood's machinery incentivizes young women to trade intimacy for access. Leonardo DiCaprio's defense that he didn't know her age misses the point: the system around him proposed the transaction in the first place. Accountability for individual behavior must extend to the incentives and agents that enable it.
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