Help end medical misogyny. Sign our petition.

Help end medical misogyny.
Sign our petition.

Sign the petition

Please or to access all these features

Parenting

For free parenting resources please check out the Early Years Alliance's Family Corner.

How to talk to my daughter about very short, tight shorts

207 replies

YepIChangedMyNameForThis · 21/06/2026 09:27

My 14 year old daughter went shopping with friends yesterday and came home with the shortest, tightest denim shorts EVER.
They look like they would feel too tight and go right up her bum, she said they didn't. She also said a friend of hers had a similar pair on yesterday.

They just don't look great, how the hell do I say it without her thinking I am saying she looks fat in them!

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Lomonald · 22/06/2026 11:22

bluefishjug · 21/06/2026 19:45

Always, on threads like this. Par for the course. This topic is a thing on MN, surely everyone knows. The highly outraged posts and the creepy details are all key part of this <ahem> genre. There are many threads like this. It's usually school skirts, but barely there shorts are super popular too, the 'discussion' is clearly very enticing stirring to some.

I honestly never thought about this aspect, i might stop posting on these threads, clearly I am naive !

Soontobe60 · 22/06/2026 12:29

IlikebigboatsandIcannotlie · 21/06/2026 18:22

Did the fashion for "sagging" pass you by? It seems to be fading away now but there was a point when pretty much every teenage boy wore their trousers so low they were basically round their knees

But their actual flesh wasn’t on show - just underpants.

HarshbutTrue2 · 22/06/2026 17:03

Overscheduled · 22/06/2026 10:02

Yes, it was racist and also complete bullshit.

I mentioned cities not the residents of those cities.
Do you live in an inner city area?
No. Didn't think so
We all have different life experiences which influences our behaviour.

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about these subjects:

Yetanotherone12 · 22/06/2026 17:12

HarshbutTrue2 · 22/06/2026 17:03

I mentioned cities not the residents of those cities.
Do you live in an inner city area?
No. Didn't think so
We all have different life experiences which influences our behaviour.

You didn’t even mention cities. At least two were towns.

you mentioned specific places based on race. Which unless you’ve managed to live in those 5 (?) towns and cities is hardly describing “where you grew up”

racism.

Overscheduled · 22/06/2026 22:13

HarshbutTrue2 · 22/06/2026 17:03

I mentioned cities not the residents of those cities.
Do you live in an inner city area?
No. Didn't think so
We all have different life experiences which influences our behaviour.

I replied to your post to say my nieces live in one of the places you mentioned and they are free to wear whatever they like. They both have very different styles. You lied and said they had to dress for certain cultures living there. It was bullshit and racist. One of my nieces is at college and there is a mix of clothing from girls wearing the typical fashionable shorts and crop tops to the goth girls to girls being more covered up. They all mix happily with each other, young people being educated and having fun with friends.

lovecotswoldsliving · 23/06/2026 22:35

IlikebigboatsandIcannotlie · 21/06/2026 18:22

Did the fashion for "sagging" pass you by? It seems to be fading away now but there was a point when pretty much every teenage boy wore their trousers so low they were basically round their knees

I have recently noticed some boys wearing their trousers half way down their backsides, at our school. I just quietly say ‘ please can you pull your trousers up’ and they do. Girls tend to be more defensive when you suggest they roll their skirts down….
We are now going towards changing uniform to trousers, which the girls are going to hate….
And then there are lots of us who remember the Miss Sixties tight little numbers….

HarshbutTrue2 · 24/06/2026 08:39

I have realised that some of the posters on here are actually argumentative 14 year olds.

For their information, a 14 year old girl was murdered at the weekend, in Wales. Possibly by a 14 year old boy.

Yesterday, a teenage girl was raped in a park near the Rochdale road in Manchester.

In March, a man was jailed in Birmingham for the rape of teenagers. I won't name him.

Anyone who reads a newspaper knows that 14 year old girls are raped at an average of one a month.

I have no knowledge of what they were wearing. However, it is a mother's duty to protect their teenage daughters. This includes supervising their clothing. For all of those who think men should just behave themselves- grow up and get in the real world. What men should do and what men do do are 2 different things.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page