My Karen-Old-Lady take on short shorts

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I teach at an all girls school. I hate it too. I mostly hate it because I accidentally see butt cheeks and know some creep somewhere is getting off on it.

yep and I refuse to encourage my teens to wear clothing that may draw a pervert's attention. Yes, it's the fault of the gross human preying on the child, but if they are preying on kids, I don't think shaming them by saying they shouldn't be looking and my kid deserves to wear what they feel comfy in means much to the gross adults.

So merely looking at a “curvy” 17 year old with her butt cheeks dropping below the line of her shorts and her breasts and nipples showing beneath a sheer white t-shirt with no bra is now “preying on a child”?

You can’t have it both ways. I’m a middle aged man. Not a creep, not a perv. But I’ve seen plenty of these 16-20 year old girls out and about… they have zero intention of looking like “children”. And from the commentary that flies when the neighborhood dads get together, that’s not how they’re being viewed.

I don’t much care either way—happy to catch a glimpse here and there, will never in a million years allow my daughter to dress like that when she’s that age—but those of you encouraging your teen daughters to “flaunt it while you got it” need to be realistic about what that means.

You and the other neighborhood dads are old and gross and your daughter will wear whatever she feels like when she’s a teenager and you aren’t going to be able to stop it. Teenage girls have been ignoring or getting around their parents’ fashion dictates since the dawn of time. Youth will rebel against age; it’s developmentally appropriate and normal. Women threw off corsets and bobbed their hair in the 1920s and their dad’s probably had the vapors then too.

And stop trying to catch a glimpse of a 17 year old, you dirty old man.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am a mom who despises this trend, but I cant keep my 14 year od daughter from dressing like that. She simply does not listen. Lol at all the parents who tell themselces they wont allow their girls to dress that way when they are older. If they have willpower and thats what they want, they’ll do it. Im an OG feminist, and she’ll use all the talking points against me. Just watch out. It’ll happen to you.

Same. Mom of 2 teen girls who live in lululemon hottyhots. I hate the short shorts trend along with the crop tops; but we need to learn to pick our battles. Besides, for all you gen-x moms (probably some millennials too) out there, do you not remember those daisy dukes that we all used to wear in high school?

I'm gen-x and no one wore daisy dukes except Daisy Duke. Also, even her daisy dukes did not actually show any butt cheeks. They didn't even come close to that.

+1 I was taught to dress appropriately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a mom who despises this trend, but I cant keep my 14 year od daughter from dressing like that. She simply does not listen. Lol at all the parents who tell themselces they wont allow their girls to dress that way when they are older. If they have willpower and thats what they want, they’ll do it. Im an OG feminist, and she’ll use all the talking points against me. Just watch out. It’ll happen to you.

What do you mean? Don’t you buy her clothes? Or aren’t you the one driving her to the places to buy any inappropriate clothes? You can easily weed out the inappropriate ones from her closet. You choose not to. You are allowing her to do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a mom who despises this trend, but I cant keep my 14 year od daughter from dressing like that. She simply does not listen. Lol at all the parents who tell themselces they wont allow their girls to dress that way when they are older. If they have willpower and thats what they want, they’ll do it. Im an OG feminist, and she’ll use all the talking points against me. Just watch out. It’ll happen to you.

What do you mean? Don’t you buy her clothes? Or aren’t you the one driving her to the places to buy any inappropriate clothes? You can easily weed out the inappropriate ones from her closet. You choose not to. You are allowing her to do this.

+1 this is a battle you have to fight. Send her back to her room to change clothes. You do not allow your dd to leave the house with her butt cheeks out. You just don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach at an all girls school. I hate it too. I mostly hate it because I accidentally see butt cheeks and know some creep somewhere is getting off on it.

yep and I refuse to encourage my teens to wear clothing that may draw a pervert's attention. Yes, it's the fault of the gross human preying on the child, but if they are preying on kids, I don't think shaming them by saying they shouldn't be looking and my kid deserves to wear what they feel comfy in means much to the gross adults.

So merely looking at a “curvy” 17 year old with her butt cheeks dropping below the line of her shorts and her breasts and nipples showing beneath a sheer white t-shirt with no bra is now “preying on a child”?

You can’t have it both ways. I’m a middle aged man. Not a creep, not a perv. But I’ve seen plenty of these 16-20 year old girls out and about… they have zero intention of looking like “children”. And from the commentary that flies when the neighborhood dads get together, that’s not how they’re being viewed.

I don’t much care either way—happy to catch a glimpse here and there, will never in a million years allow my daughter to dress like that when she’s that age—but those of you encouraging your teen daughters to “flaunt it while you got it” need to be realistic about what that means.

You and the other neighborhood dads are old and gross and your daughter will wear whatever she feels like when she’s a teenager and you aren’t going to be able to stop it. Teenage girls have been ignoring or getting around their parents’ fashion dictates since the dawn of time. Youth will rebel against age; it’s developmentally appropriate and normal. Women threw off corsets and bobbed their hair in the 1920s and their dad’s probably had the vapors then too.

This is what loser parents say.

Sure, some kids rebel by dressing like whores. Others rebel by drinking at 14, others with drugs. On and on. And some of them will be fine (some won’t).

But it is never, in any generation, all or most or even a huge number of kids. The vast majority of teen girls can be attractive and even sexy in an age-appropriate, context-appropriate way.

Just because you’re a crappy parent and are either unable or unwilling to actually parent your child, don’t delude yourself into thinking that’s just the universal reality of raising a teen. The fact that you seem oblivious about how to impose standards tells me how you’ve been parenting in the years leading up to this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach at an all girls school. I hate it too. I mostly hate it because I accidentally see butt cheeks and know some creep somewhere is getting off on it.

yep and I refuse to encourage my teens to wear clothing that may draw a pervert's attention. Yes, it's the fault of the gross human preying on the child, but if they are preying on kids, I don't think shaming them by saying they shouldn't be looking and my kid deserves to wear what they feel comfy in means much to the gross adults.

So merely looking at a “curvy” 17 year old with her butt cheeks dropping below the line of her shorts and her breasts and nipples showing beneath a sheer white t-shirt with no bra is now “preying on a child”?

You can’t have it both ways. I’m a middle aged man. Not a creep, not a perv. But I’ve seen plenty of these 16-20 year old girls out and about… they have zero intention of looking like “children”. And from the commentary that flies when the neighborhood dads get together, that’s not how they’re being viewed.

I don’t much care either way—happy to catch a glimpse here and there, will never in a million years allow my daughter to dress like that when she’s that age—but those of you encouraging your teen daughters to “flaunt it while you got it” need to be realistic about what that means.

You and the other neighborhood dads are old and gross and your daughter will wear whatever she feels like when she’s a teenager and you aren’t going to be able to stop it. Teenage girls have been ignoring or getting around their parents’ fashion dictates since the dawn of time. Youth will rebel against age; it’s developmentally appropriate and normal. Women threw off corsets and bobbed their hair in the 1920s and their dad’s probably had the vapors then too.

And stop trying to catch a glimpse of a 17 year old, you dirty old man.

This has to be a troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach at an all girls school. I hate it too. I mostly hate it because I accidentally see butt cheeks and know some creep somewhere is getting off on it.

yep and I refuse to encourage my teens to wear clothing that may draw a pervert's attention. Yes, it's the fault of the gross human preying on the child, but if they are preying on kids, I don't think shaming them by saying they shouldn't be looking and my kid deserves to wear what they feel comfy in means much to the gross adults.

So merely looking at a “curvy” 17 year old with her butt cheeks dropping below the line of her shorts and her breasts and nipples showing beneath a sheer white t-shirt with no bra is now “preying on a child”?

You can’t have it both ways. I’m a middle aged man. Not a creep, not a perv. But I’ve seen plenty of these 16-20 year old girls out and about… they have zero intention of looking like “children”. And from the commentary that flies when the neighborhood dads get together, that’s not how they’re being viewed.

I don’t much care either way—happy to catch a glimpse here and there, will never in a million years allow my daughter to dress like that when she’s that age—but those of you encouraging your teen daughters to “flaunt it while you got it” need to be realistic about what that means.

You and the other neighborhood dads are old and gross and your daughter will wear whatever she feels like when she’s a teenager and you aren’t going to be able to stop it. Teenage girls have been ignoring or getting around their parents’ fashion dictates since the dawn of time. Youth will rebel against age; it’s developmentally appropriate and normal. Women threw off corsets and bobbed their hair in the 1920s and their dad’s probably had the vapors then too.

And stop trying to catch a glimpse of a 17 year old, you dirty old man.

This has to be a troll.

Obviously girls should try to show off their assets but men need to make certain they do not notice.

[Anonymous]

It looks like they are in their pajamas. I’m not sure that I’d even say it’s inappropriate as in sexy (the big baggy tee looks the opposite, like a boy or a 8 year old at summer camp) just odd looking.

I’m on the west coast urban area and the style here which has been very suddenly popular is cargo or wider long shorts (jorts lol) that look like the kind a 10 yo boy wears. With the tiniest top in existence sometimes glorified bras. I don’t really see the short shorts as much except at the pool or beach. So brace yourself