Wow, the escapist forum looks like shit. I see pedobear getting reposted 10,00 times, people using such gems of logic as "ITS FUCKING DISGUSTING THATS WHY" (always a favorite of fundies who refuse to think about what they're trying to ban, of course. But hey, it's okay to use such non-logic if it's something that's unacceptable in your society, right? Even if you're almost certain to then decry others using it to argue against things you don't find disgusting? That's not hypocritical or displaying a total lack of critical thinking at all! End of discussion! No further discourse needed! Knowing why society values one and not the other is totally irrelevant!) and of course, people refusing to comment on the one or two well made posts in the shitstorm, instead re-quoting one-liners and picking apart single comments. Go go outraged mob mentality
yet again.
Sorry, it just annoys me that these people would almost definitely get outraged if they saw others acting like that over something they deemed acceptable, but then it's okay for them to act like it towards something that almost everyone finds unacceptable. People hating something is absolutely no excuse to not discuss it rationally.
Man, I don't know what was wrong with my elementary school then. Around grade five, 1998ish I think, the entire student culture was overrun with rap and sex. Boy's whose sacks hadn't dropped were ragging on about who they wanted to lay and so forth.
I wish I could find an impartial and thorough study on whether or not that behaviour is more sexual or social in nature. Would be extremely interesting. As I said, kids are born imitators (It's how we learn at that age, after all), could just be the result of a glorification of that culture in media/through peer groups.
Pathos: I pretty definitely have never seen any indications that red is sexier outside of one of my ex girlfriends saying so (Not to compare you to her, but she was an idiot who just regurgitated everything she was told, whether it was true or not). If I had to connect red to anything, it'd probably be blood, which I don't find sexy at all. Again, you're attaching your own values to the situation and reacting to them instead of what's actually going on. From the looks of it, HG131's posts look fine out of context (I'm not going back in *there* to get the context either).
-Being a paedophile
is a psychological condition, not illegal. The laws in most western countries frown on acts, not thought crimes.
-laws can be silly sometimes, but that's why we're meant to rationally discuss them and weigh the pros and cons, isn't it? then they become fair laws with a rational basis, right? Which is why we don't just lash out at people we don't agree with?
-something about swimsuits, I dunno. Again, seems reasonable in the light you've presented it in. If people can wear things outdoors without getting into trouble, there's little reason to get upset when they wear them in shows.