Bums hanging out of the bottom of teeny tiny shorts

[Noodleschicken]

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 ?

I'm in my sixties. This is a look that comes and goes. I remember it in the 1970s.

Thongs on the street with a couple of inches of fringed belt? We're not talking hotpants or Daisy Dukes.

I wore short shorts when I was younger but not with half my arse showing. But it's up to them.

It's just a bum - I don't really have an issue with it. I would have an issue with leering men but that's a separate thing. If a man is that way inclined, longer shorts won't solve it - he'll still find someone to leer at.

No you dont. People didn't dress like that in the 1970s, it would have been totally unacceptable.

I'm a wheelchair user, it's a bit difficult not to when they're at my head height and walk in front of me....

All this talk of “Dirty Old Men”, when does a male become a dirty old man ? is it when they pass 45 years old or earlier? Females in all species on this earth are attractive to the male species, otherwise we would not exist.

Why, just for being men? Why is it OK to criticise male clothing choices but not female? The MN hypocrisy bus is on the road again!

In my early years of teaching there was one pupil who kept doing the button undone zip half down trouser look. She was hauled in by a mature female teacher who told her to sort it out because she looked like a tart ( no you couldn't say that now) This put a stop to it.

1970s hot pants often did reveal bum cheeks.

Yes a little bit at the bottom, not the whole cheek.

Google topless dresses in the 1960s! They were like a dress with a very low back worn back to front! Outside of Carnaby St and similar conscientiously trendy places they never reall caught on though/

It's a pity that a lot of the verbal putdowns are no longer allowed because the little cherubs are too sensitive and they might be 'triggered'. They were certainly effective, a 'well endowed' newly qualified teacher used to get comments from the teenage boys until the day when one of them told her what he'd like to do to her. She drew herself up to her 5ft 2ins and told him 'Don't send a little boy to do a man's job', his coterie of friends fell about in hysterics, he was as red a a post box but he never said it again, to anyone!

Some young women will always want to attract the male gaze and so some fashion lines will always cater to that look. The most shocking thing is some parents allowing their children to go out half dressed. But if adult men/women want to “dress to impress” that’s their prerogative.

The best advice I can give is concentrate on your own life, keep your eyes to yourself and mind your own business.

MN is obsessed about what people wear - it’s weird.

Unfortunately if you look at pop music today it’s like feminism never happened. Half if not more of the most popular female stars are stripped off half the time - Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift, Black Pink, Beyoncé, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa etc

They look nothing like this, they're way shorter and most of the girls wearing them do not have figures that those girls have in the photos!

Seriously, where do you draw the line? Do some people think it's acceptable to go round Tesco in a bikini? No matter what you look like in it? But it wasn't okay for people to wear PJs round the shops? Happy for it to become the norm that people are 95% naked in a food shop? On the bus? At work? Why don't we just all wear what the F we want all the time? Why?

People had a hell of a lot more self respect and pride in 1976 than they do now. You wouldn't have seen massive beer guts hanging out all over the place back then. Society is grim now in every respect.

Do you find it acceptable for a 60+ man to ogle a 14 year old in normal not tight, not very short summer shorts? I saw it with my own eyes. Yuck what a perv.

Each to their own, women should be able to wear whatever they want.

It makes me uncomfortable when its kids and pre teens. Our local school hasn't banned them for some reason and when I'm driving to or from work I'm met with a lot of underage bum cheeks.

But thats more of a parenting issue than anything else

Many of them don't. Recent festival size 22 backsides with rolls of fat looked awful, imagine the knee and hip problems in 20 or 30 years.

In the 1970's people weren't so obese

This is true. Very overweight young people seem happy to wear revealing clothes now, when they (the few) would have kept well covered back then.....which is a good thing?

Why are you fine with seeing a man’s sweaty chest but not a girl’s sweaty thighs?

Are you ok with men displaying their sweaty arses?

I’m questioning the double standards here, not my likes and dislikes.