Bums hanging out of the bottom of teeny tiny shorts

At the time, though, attitudes towards those short shorts and mini skirts were not dissimilar to those displayed on this thread. Throughout history there has been a horror of women showing their bodies. And it IS women. There's a reason why it's perfectly legal for a man to walk down the high street with no shirt on, but a woman can't do the same. Whatever you think about shirtless men, it's a double standard.

In the 70s, men wore short shorts, too. Nobody commented on it. It didn't get the outrage from the older generations that the female equivalent did.

Going further back, nobody was horrified by men's legs bifurcated by trousers. When women started wearing them, to some people it was as though they'd stripped naked for a performance in the Pink Pussycat Club.

What is it about women's bodies that generates this level of interest even from other women? Twas ever thus...

When I was in my 20s I would never have gone out in anything even remotely revealing - it just wasn't done

• just wasn't done? When was this, can I ask? I think clothes should be less revealing but that hasn't been thr case for a while.

Think you missed the point of my post as did @ThatCyanCat. I was suggesting an alternative.

I wasn’t aware no one was allowed to move the conversation on beyond one very specific type of shorts so thanks both for pointing that out!

They are nothing like the shorts that are being discussed. They're just shorts.

It's an expression that means I found it funny. Jeez you got out the wrong side of the bed this morning are your shorts stuck too far up your arse?

Were you actually showing your bum though?

Short skirts and hot pants are not the issue here.

And body confidence doesn't mean you can expose your bum! Is it OK for men to do that because they're body confident?

I guess at least security knew they weren't hiding anything...

Needing the attention this sort of clothing brings to walk through an airport is just tragic.

Yes. These are the shorts. People keep saying ‘I wore shorts’ but they weren’t like this. I was recently at an airport. And the girls were wearing these!!

This reminds me of a thread about scrunch bum (up your bum) leggings. Someone said they went to Sainsbury's with their elderly dad and someone wearing them bent over in front of him and he said "Great Scott!" or something 😂

I think booty shorts.

I don"t agree we should enforce clothing laws though, we would be like a religious state then, police in the UK can"t stop shoplifters can you imagine them trying to round up groups of young girls for breaching decency laws, LOL, it would be like a scene from the Benny Hill show.
You are right though there is a trend now to be nearly naked and to flaunt this, it is an attention/approval thing for sure and I think it has mushroomed due to the influence of the internet and social media.
The only way to stop it is if all of society bands together and everyone from brickies to grannies goes about flaunting their arse, then the younger short wearers would just feel absolutely ridiculous and stop the behaviour?

You were condescending so I returned the tone.

You can mind your business while also noticing can't you?

You didn't say 'mind your business' you implied I must have been staring.

I explained how the eyes and brain works.

Maybe next time you'll think twice.

If a poster said they saw a man exposing themselves would you post 'oh well you must have really been staring to notice his penis was out and he was wearing tracksuit bottoms?'

No you wouldn't. So don't attempt to do it to a woman who noticed someone elses almost entire arse was hanging out. It's designed to make that person look like theyre some kind of pervert, weirdo or a 'Karen' and shut them down and im not playing your game.

People should be appropriately dressed in public. If not, it will attract attention.

I think the issue is that modesty seems to have completely disappeared. When I was in my 20s I would never have gone out in anything even remotely revealing - it just wasn't done - and I would have felt embarrassed if I thought anything was showing which really shouldn't be!! It's the same with pregnant women wearing skintight clothes to draw attention to the fact that they are pregnant - I find it really unattractive and unnecessary!

Wow. How condescending 🤣

No I tend to mind my own business when I’m out and about - I highly recommend it.

my bum cheeks were definitely on display when from about 17-25
my DSD18 has them on display currently which is a considerable smaller amount of skin on display than in her teeny bikinis

Do you have some kind of challenge with your eyes and your ability to process visual information?

Because I don't.

I was approaching and probably 30 feet away it caught my attention so maybe 5 seconds while i'm thinking is that girl naked from the waist down? And her arse was red, her legs were not. That takes a millisecond to see so it was another few seconds while i'm thinking no, she can't be.

As I walked past she straightened up and I could see she was wearing very short. ill-fitting shorts.

I know what you're trying to do, you're trying to insinuate that I must have been staring.

No, that's how eyes and the brain works. You see something and your brain processes it very quickly. Especially if your focus is drawn to it as out of the ordinary which it was in this case as I though she was partially naked.

It literally takes as little as13 milliseconds (I can link the research) for the brain to process visual information but extracting the details, interpreting meaning and translating that into a decision about what that thing is and what it means takes about 150-400 milliseconds.

No human needs to stare at something to see it and understand what it is. Apologies if you do, you might want to see a Dr.

And how long were you staring at this person while being close enough to see her sunburn? How odd

Safe choices? No such thing. And clothing is irrelevant.

That conversation would not have protected me from being raped at 15 (I was wearing jeans and a jumper).

Widely varying views on here as you’d expect.

I don’t like the fashion, not because I think it’s gross or disgusts me but because like many others I think it attracts keen attention from men of all ages.

While I generally support the view that women and young girls should be allowed to dress as they please, it’s just a fact that men will be drawn to this obvious display of sexuality. It’s also a fact that rightly or wrongly, it will give the message to some men that these girls are available in some way and are in fact trying to attract them. This does NOT excuse men’s behaviour in any way whatsoever, but it does increase the risks for those dressing like this, particularly in more vulnerable situations.

Which is why I would be discussing the topic with my daughters to try to educate them in order to increase their awareness and help them make safe choices.

No. I'm in my 50s and people didn't show their bare bum in public in the past. That's a more recent thing.

Can anyone actually dig out a photo of a 60s miniskirt that actually shows the wearer’s bum?

We aren't talking miniskirts and hotpants. We're talking stuff with literally at least half of the arse out; I've seen full arse out. A G string with a belt with a couple of inches of fringe at the top that barely hit the top of the fully exposed crack. And it wasn't a one off. It's an obvious fashion. The arse really might as well have been fully naked. And it's not anywhere near a beach or a swimming pool. It's just in a big city centre. Shops, cafes, pubs, cinemas, theatres.

Did you really see much of that in your youth?

People shouldn't have their arse hanging out, male or female.

I was at a seaside town a couple of weeks ago, strolling along the pier there was a teenaged girl who at first glance from the back looked like she was naked from the waist down because she was leaning over the railing crabbing.

It was only when she straightened up you could see she was wearing very, very short shorts that were too small for her.

Leaving aside the indecent and unflattering clothes, you could see the massive sunburn with white bits from her skin creases which must have caused her a lot of pain!

Doesn’t anyone on here remember being young? My skirts were as short as I could make them. And I wore hot pants. These girls feel confident in their bodies. Why are people so quick to judge?