Unwittingly had ‘sex’ with a child, realised it was a child, had ‘sex’ a second time.

And wrote a song about it. And then wrote it into his autobiography.

How this man apparently skated through the #MeToo movement unscathed is truly baffling.

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    This dude has dated more underage girls than I have fingers. Why do people continue to look the other way?

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        There’s a huge fucking difference between a 20 year old (giving DiCaprio 5 years with the individual before they turn 25) and a 14 year old. A 14 year old has only just developed the ability to think about matters in a non-binary (as in not purely bad or purely good for example) manner, a 20 year old has been able to think that way for nearly a decade. Ones decision making skills are decidedly very poor before about age 25 as the brain is still developing, and that development is still occuring at a breakneck pace at 14 where by 20 it’s slowed significantly. Even if you just look at the years that’s like saying an 8 year old is basically the same as a 14 year old which is obviously not the case.

        Now, it’s definitely kinda weird for someone to go for a 20 year old in their 40s. Having a 25 year age gap between you and your partner is honestly some level of weird at any life stage, but at least by 20 they’re an adult legally and mentally. Anyone over the age of 20 is generally able to understand the risks and consequences of their actions, and while some amount of mistakes are understandable both due to poor decision-making skills and lack of life experiences, it’s nowhere near as drastic as a 14 year old left to their own devices

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            LOL, that disorder would keep him from answering which one of those women was your waitress, but not was your waitress 14.

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              It can make it harder to estimate the age of a person (I say as a person that also struggles with faces). But yeah most people don’t do those estimations based on face only, especially if you’re faceblind. I don’t know anything about Brad Pitt though so no comment on that lmao

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        Leonardo DiCaprio (51), whose girlfriend is 27.

        And come the fuck on. I’m a little grossed out on a personal level (as someone who is “only” 40) at being in a relationship with someone that’s 20-25. To me we’d be so culturally different that it would bother me.

        Though that’s probably less of a factor when the culture you’ve been in for decades is the Hollywood lifestyle, unlike the average person who predominantly hangs around with people close to themselves in ages.

        The reality is that they’re both consenting adults and can do whatever the hell they want.

        Fucking a 14 year old is not even in the same universe as fucking a 27 year old. What are you smoking?

        DiCaprio clearly finds women in their mid 20s attractive. Newsflash: most 51 year olds will be attracted to an attractive 27 year old.

        I’ve never quite understood the anger at DiCaprio over this. Women in their 20s are not children. They have brains. They are more than capable of consenting.