If comments or questions on a given subject are offensive to the reader or observer of actions or occurrences that actually happens in the community or society and is not made up, what does that say about society?

There is a question or comment about blank and someone takes issue that it is obnoxious, pervy (if that is even a word), creepy, debased, etc. but what does that say of society? If the things spoken of are actually happening, to be offended that they are talked about, questioned, or commented on are not worse than the actual occurrences. By not mentioning those things are it a form of denial; if you don’t acknowledge it, then it doesn’t happen in society or the nation? If it is so repugnant to talk about, how come it is more tolerable to live with so long as it goes unspoken?