[CliffFletcher]

There are several reasons this stuff is so rife in the entertainment industry.

* Hundreds of thousands of talented, attractive, desperately ambitious people competing to become among the handful who become stars. And unlike other hyper-competitive fields like sports, there’s no clear or objective way to sort the few from the many.

* This means personal relationships become the avenue to the top of the pyramid, giving gatekeepers tremendous power and tremendous opportunity for exploitation of people who will do almost anything for a chance to grasp the golden rung.

* This dynamic operates in a licentious atmosphere where casual sex, alcohol, and drug use among peers and colleagues is common.

Identifying the most egregious exploitation by gatekeepers is a welcome corrective. But it will only go so far to reduce abuse as long as the systems and incentives in the industry remain in place.