[garbanzo]

So if you find the idea of a mentally ill young man dressing like a woman and wearing grotesque female cosmetics that would shame a prostitute in any way wrong, perverse, or disgusting

I was hammering in on the word "intimidate" - I am genuinely curious about people who are frightened of 15 year old boy in a dress. As for the substance of the boy-in-a-dress issue, I find myself in a big heap of I-don't-really-care-that-much. It's a big world and there's much more to be upset and disgusted about than the sartorial choices of a teenager. I think the people who are frothing at mouth over it are working out their own psychological issues.

[Antoninus]

I was hammering in on the word "intimidate" - I am genuinely curious about people who are frightened of 15 year old boy in a dress.

Good point. I wouldn't use the word "intimidated"--a better term would be "revolted by". That's exactly how I felt when a guy I knew in high school started declaring to everyone who would listen that he was a homo. I felt his behavior was revolting and pathetic and he himself an object of pity.

Intimidated? Not hardly.