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Bums hanging out of the bottom of teeny tiny shorts

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Noodleschicken · 28/06/2026 20:42

Don’t know if this really AIBU or a question!
AIBU to think that shorts have become way too short ?
I have seen a LOT of girls in shorts today - with their bum cheeks hanging out the bottom ! Personally I wouldn’t let my daughter out like that. And I wouldn’t were them myself (I would give everyone nightmares !).
so what’s the consensus on bums hanging out of shorts ?

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Two2TooAlsoToToward · 05/08/2026 19:13

Peony1985 · 05/08/2026 15:59

It’s more that male version young people don’t seem to feel the need to reveal their bum cheeks or a side view of testicle.

Side testicle. 😂 Don’t give any ideas…it might catch on! 🤢

OonaStubbs · 05/08/2026 19:09

IMO it is disgusting and should NOT be allowed.

Puppylucky · 05/08/2026 18:47

MixedFeelingsNoFeelings · 05/08/2026 15:33

I wonder if, the 'younger' and trendier that midlife women dress, the more it subconsciously pushes younger women to extremes - either revealing body parts (bum cheeks, midriff) that most older women wouldn't dare to: or conversely, covering everything up in swathes of material, vintage styles or odd shapes, that mature women would avoid for fear of looking frumpy or just plain weird.

Just a theory, I hasten to add! But I read somewhere that the key ways young people differentiate themselves from their elders is through their language, clothes and music. When your trendy DPs are going to the same festivals and listening to the same stuff as you do, and still pretty fixated on looking fashionable, where else do you go?

The really sad (and frightening) thing is when the younger generation just stops competing. As we're beginning to see.

Totally agree with this - very perceptive!

SpaceRaccoon · 05/08/2026 17:59

Gloriia · 05/08/2026 17:19

You must've been extremely close or maybe the smell was closer to home?

Edited

It was a packed underground during a morning commute, yes I was extremely close. No need to be so fucking rude.

Gloriia · 05/08/2026 17:19

SpaceRaccoon · 05/08/2026 16:30

I did get a whiff of not very well wiped arsehole recently on a crowded underground - I was sitting and he was standing up in front of me. His arse cheeks were covered though.

You must've been extremely close or maybe the smell was closer to home?

ThePeppyOpalScroller · 05/08/2026 17:17

SunnySunnyDayz · 28/06/2026 20:46

Agree entirely, it is fashion but I sometimes think fashion has been infiltrated by the manosphere.

Women should be able to wear what they want but WHY do they want to dress like this?

women should be allowed to wear what they want

This is nonsense. So you'd be OK with your child's teacher showing up to class in lingerie?

If your answer is "that is obviously not appropriate and there are certain occasions when it isn't OK to wear what you want" then the original premise no longer stands.

SpaceRaccoon · 05/08/2026 16:30

Gloriia · 04/07/2026 16:05

Nothing wrong with my diet but if the pp is getting 'whiffs of poo' wherever they go there may be something wrong with theirs.

I did get a whiff of not very well wiped arsehole recently on a crowded underground - I was sitting and he was standing up in front of me. His arse cheeks were covered though.

KeepPumping · 05/08/2026 16:23

Gettingbysomehow · 05/08/2026 16:20

Sorry I dont get you. I didnt say or imply they have been forced to do anything.
What do you mean?

You said you find it difficult to accept that the girls want "that kind of attention", whatever that means, maybe most of the attention they get is positive attention to them? My question to you was - Why are they doing it?

GimmieABreakOr3 · 05/08/2026 16:23

Overtheatlantic · 05/08/2026 15:34

I think in some cases the “wear what you like” movement has gone too far.

100%

bring back shame and public decency

Gettingbysomehow · 05/08/2026 16:21

Vitrolinsanity · 05/08/2026 15:53

I didn’t wear very long because having insisted to my mother that I could wear what I liked and flounced dramatically off to buy them, I then had to suffer the sheer discomfort of a pair of wedgy shorts right up my arse for the whole summer. You’re constantly pulling them down whether you’re standing, sitting or walking (sitting it worse).

Seeing them now my silent reaction is “oh dear”.

😂

Gettingbysomehow · 05/08/2026 16:20

KeepPumping · 05/08/2026 16:11

Are you saying they are somehow forced to do it, or another reason?

Sorry I dont get you. I didnt say or imply they have been forced to do anything.
What do you mean?

KeepPumping · 05/08/2026 16:17

MixedFeelingsNoFeelings · 05/08/2026 15:33

I wonder if, the 'younger' and trendier that midlife women dress, the more it subconsciously pushes younger women to extremes - either revealing body parts (bum cheeks, midriff) that most older women wouldn't dare to: or conversely, covering everything up in swathes of material, vintage styles or odd shapes, that mature women would avoid for fear of looking frumpy or just plain weird.

Just a theory, I hasten to add! But I read somewhere that the key ways young people differentiate themselves from their elders is through their language, clothes and music. When your trendy DPs are going to the same festivals and listening to the same stuff as you do, and still pretty fixated on looking fashionable, where else do you go?

The really sad (and frightening) thing is when the younger generation just stops competing. As we're beginning to see.

Possible, but many younger women will be too self absorbed to think like that IMO, they are not competing with older women in their mind, it is all about just maximising the attention they get in the moment. Strangely the trend seems to have died down a bit even although the weather has been seriously warm, is there a fashion shift I am missing?

KeepPumping · 05/08/2026 16:11

Gettingbysomehow · 04/08/2026 21:55

Quite honestly when I was a young woman and attractive enough to wear this stuff I did not because it was bad enough dealing with mens disgusting comments and lechery on a day to day basis wearing normal clothes and I wouldn't have felt safe or comfortable showing my bottom biscuits.
I find it difficult to believe girls want that kind of attention from the creeps out there.

Are you saying they are somehow forced to do it, or another reason?

Peony1985 · 05/08/2026 15:59

MixedFeelingsNoFeelings · 05/08/2026 15:33

I wonder if, the 'younger' and trendier that midlife women dress, the more it subconsciously pushes younger women to extremes - either revealing body parts (bum cheeks, midriff) that most older women wouldn't dare to: or conversely, covering everything up in swathes of material, vintage styles or odd shapes, that mature women would avoid for fear of looking frumpy or just plain weird.

Just a theory, I hasten to add! But I read somewhere that the key ways young people differentiate themselves from their elders is through their language, clothes and music. When your trendy DPs are going to the same festivals and listening to the same stuff as you do, and still pretty fixated on looking fashionable, where else do you go?

The really sad (and frightening) thing is when the younger generation just stops competing. As we're beginning to see.

It’s more that male version young people don’t seem to feel the need to reveal their bum cheeks or a side view of testicle.

Vitrolinsanity · 05/08/2026 15:53

Gettingbysomehow · 04/08/2026 21:55

Quite honestly when I was a young woman and attractive enough to wear this stuff I did not because it was bad enough dealing with mens disgusting comments and lechery on a day to day basis wearing normal clothes and I wouldn't have felt safe or comfortable showing my bottom biscuits.
I find it difficult to believe girls want that kind of attention from the creeps out there.

I didn’t wear very long because having insisted to my mother that I could wear what I liked and flounced dramatically off to buy them, I then had to suffer the sheer discomfort of a pair of wedgy shorts right up my arse for the whole summer. You’re constantly pulling them down whether you’re standing, sitting or walking (sitting it worse).

Seeing them now my silent reaction is “oh dear”.

Overtheatlantic · 05/08/2026 15:34

I think in some cases the “wear what you like” movement has gone too far.

MixedFeelingsNoFeelings · 05/08/2026 15:33

I wonder if, the 'younger' and trendier that midlife women dress, the more it subconsciously pushes younger women to extremes - either revealing body parts (bum cheeks, midriff) that most older women wouldn't dare to: or conversely, covering everything up in swathes of material, vintage styles or odd shapes, that mature women would avoid for fear of looking frumpy or just plain weird.

Just a theory, I hasten to add! But I read somewhere that the key ways young people differentiate themselves from their elders is through their language, clothes and music. When your trendy DPs are going to the same festivals and listening to the same stuff as you do, and still pretty fixated on looking fashionable, where else do you go?

The really sad (and frightening) thing is when the younger generation just stops competing. As we're beginning to see.

montysmaw · 05/08/2026 15:24

KeepPumping · 02/07/2026 17:10

That is basically office wear though compared to what is being discussed on the thread.

Yeah, Daisy Dukes had a bit of cheek showing. Not virtually a whole arse.
They aren't even good arses.....

montysmaw · 05/08/2026 15:21

TinyTempest · 28/06/2026 20:45

Bums have been hanging out of shorts since the late 1980s.

Daisy Dukes anyone?

Not like this they weren't.
I am seeing virtually full arses. Not just a hint of the bottom of cheek.
It's hideous and ludicrous.

Schmuliana · 05/08/2026 15:03

I think girls and women should be able to dress as they like but I agree that it's for the male gaze. For adult women it's up to them but its disturbing to see very young girls dress like that, knowing they do it for the fun of following fashion but that all the perverts will be loving it. I probably wouldn't buy my daughter clothes like that if I'm honest.

GimmieABreakOr3 · 05/08/2026 14:36

Gettingbysomehow · 04/08/2026 21:55

Quite honestly when I was a young woman and attractive enough to wear this stuff I did not because it was bad enough dealing with mens disgusting comments and lechery on a day to day basis wearing normal clothes and I wouldn't have felt safe or comfortable showing my bottom biscuits.
I find it difficult to believe girls want that kind of attention from the creeps out there.

Agreed…….. they must be naive

Gettingbysomehow · 04/08/2026 21:55

Quite honestly when I was a young woman and attractive enough to wear this stuff I did not because it was bad enough dealing with mens disgusting comments and lechery on a day to day basis wearing normal clothes and I wouldn't have felt safe or comfortable showing my bottom biscuits.
I find it difficult to believe girls want that kind of attention from the creeps out there.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 04/08/2026 09:54

Lemonfrost · 28/06/2026 20:45

The whole point of these shorts is to get people to look.

Ditto so-called ‘scrunch bum’ leggings, beloved of exhibitionists.

novalia89 · 04/08/2026 09:51

I 100% agree. These microshorts have been normalised on young girls. The type that are 1cm longer than knickers and shorter than boxer shorts. Who is that for other than creeps?

KeepPumping · 05/07/2026 14:57

Gloriia · 04/07/2026 16:39

Ok. I'll try again. A pp said they kept 'getting a whiff of poo' allegedly when walking behind women.

Now you know and I know that any whiff will not be coming from women around them and more likely be from the poster themselves. Hence my helpful suggestion to get checked for halitosis, leakage, maybe terrible flatulence if they have a bad diet? Do I need to expand on this anymore?

In summary, women in shorts don't stink of poo. The problem is more likely to be closer to home. I do hope that helps.

Yes, most people in shorts are scrubbed up, on display, they don"t smell of poo.

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