it's the result of people's goodwill being taken advantage of. the vast majority of people, posters here included, tend to default to a laissez-faire attitude towards other people's goings-on. especially in Burgerland, where there's a pervasive background ideology of valuing individual freedom. the gay rights movement made this applicable to sexual identities as well. gay acceptance was floated on the idea that gay people can't help being who they are, so - predicated on a mass media campaign to convince people that gays are just like you, except when they're cooler - it's immoral to stop them from living their honest lives. this stance also engenders a degree of activism and fanaticism from people who see the defeat of anti-gay sentiment as the defeat of social immorality. ever since that door was opened - and I believe that undercurrent in our culture dates back to the moral crisis over slavery, and the curse of guilt that followed from it - it has been used by a number of deviant subcultures to push their way into mainstream acceptance. trannies are just the most recent one, and I'm guessing pedophiles are around the corner. the question is how far the normal decency of average people can be stretched and perverted until it snaps back. I think it's obvious that, given the increasing popularity of internet speakeasies like this site, whose primary users are now people who have been peaked on this kind of culture, that mass snapping point is on the horizon, and it's not going to be pretty.