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Well, what do you think would be adequate warning?

WARNING: Disturbing Content.
WARNING: Thread contains highly upsetting, emotional material.
WARNING: Adult content, and not the fun kind.

Use your best judgment.

Intolerance is when a person decides go against something simply due to prejudice, which is caused by fear, ignorance, etc., without attempting to think about another opinion.
An Example: I am intolerant to Twilight. This is due to ignorance, as I have never read the book and slept through the film.

Socially acceptable is what the People (if such an entity exists. It would be better to say "a majority") decide they can tolerate happily (the key factors being decorum, fear, etc.). This is usually backed up by the Law.

Think of your own example for the second one, I've got nothing.

"tyranny of the majority"....I think, with as often as groups, this one in particular, have been voted out of their civil rights, we should really be concerned about letting a vote decide morality.
The majority hasn't been a good judge of right and wrong in the past, or, as we just read, the present.


I really think that people should be allowed to do whatever makes them happy, provided it doesn't cause pain *emotional, physical, etc* or property loss/damage to another living being. *Feels sure I'm leaving out something, but you get the gist?*

Oh, Divash, I respect your knowledge and all the hard work you did, but I fear your information is a little outmoded. Approximately half the population has been sexually assaulted in some manner before the age of eighteen. In other words, if you're in a room full of eighteen year old boys, about half of them will be molestation victims. If you're in a room full of eighteen year old girls, ditto. The numbers will vary slightly, of course, because that's the nature of actuarial science.

A huge part of the problem is that in many societies men, more so than women, will be expected to keep their victimization a secret. If a five-year-old boy is molested by his babysitter/teacher/aged relation, he may not tell about it until he's middle aged, or he might take it to the grave. Women can also have social stigmas put on their traumas, but it's not usually quite as stifling as those placed upon men. This is especially true in post-1970 America.

Another problem is that when men are ready to come out about their experiences, there aren't a whole lot of resources out there for them. My mother runs what wasn't too long ago the only online support group for victims of rape and incest that will even take men. Men may be a minority of the victims, but not as impressively small a minority as a chillingly silent one.

Still another problem is that heterosexual stat rape against young boys is often called "initiation". Remember the case of the teacher and student recently~? I fear society will re traumatize that boy more and more just because his perpetrator was conventionally pretty.