Do parents not teach kids how to dress?

[PandaPancake]

I saw this article earlier this month and thought nothing of it: http://www.businessinsider.com/high-school-shaming-girls-failing-dress-code-2014-6

Then while at an amusement park in Denver I was completely appalled by how young women were dressing. Should society really be letting girls at 12 show midriff and wearing way too much makeup? I've seen hookers and strippers wear more at work than what some of them had on. I wasn't even in the water park section. It really made me uncomfortable to the point I may not go back.

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[cookinbrak]

It's the "twitter-Instagram-Facebook-Pinterest-Snapchat-Whateverthehellstarted5minutesago" mentality. "Let me shock the world into noticing me." And parents, as a whole, are so busy trying to show how "with it" they are that they are completely oblivious to the fact that the society they are trying to impress is their own children. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. A bunch of 50 year olds trying to prove that they aren't old.

 

Ask a 15 year old if they are friends with their parents on Facebook, and the answer will be "Yeah, on one of my pages."

[lightsout]

It's the "twitter-Instagram-Facebook-Pinterest-Snapchat-Whateverthehellstarted5minutesago" mentality. "Let me shock the world into noticing me." And parents, as a whole, are so busy trying to show how "with it" they are that they are completely oblivious to the fact that the society they are trying to impress is their own children. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. A bunch of 50 year olds trying to prove that they aren't old.

 

Ask a 15 year old if they are friends with their parents on Facebook, and the answer will be "Yeah, on one of my pages."

And bingo was his name-o!

See, I'm not a fan of overly smothering parents. Let your kids have freedom to dress and generally act as they will. However, lead them in a good direction with that. Teach them about dignity/self-respect, individuality, and how to not be an asshole. That's what a lot of these kids are missing. And the parents really are the problem here. Being "fashionable" has gotten to the point that I see little kids (I'm talking 5 years old) wearing an orange checkered shirt, with jeans, and orange Nikes with an orange fitted hat. YOUR fuging KID ISN'T GONNA IMPRESS PEOPLE! Stop trying to make your kids into models. Put them in comfortable clothes that look good, sure. But you're not dressing a goddamn manikin. It starts that young. From there, they're going to stay with the trends so they're "popular". I got picked on for fuging years for my jorts (until 8th grade, when I ditched them). Bitch, I rocked my jorts. Yeah, in 6th grade, MOST of my shorts were just old jeans that I cut into shorts (my parents are rednecks, sue me). What of it? I wore plain fuging t-shirts, or band shirts, or the occasional polo. I turned out just fine and attracted my fair share of women, AND I didn't become a little douchebag like a lot of the "fashionable" guys, either, because I had dignity and plenty of self-esteem because I was happy with me for my own reasons, not because my peers approved.

I'm not saying that every father should be trying to keep his daughter from showing her shoulders in public or anything like that. Not saying I'd be the dad to say "go put on a different shirt" if something was mildly showing skin to the point that it's generally harmless. But part of a father's job IS keeping your daughter off the pole, right? 

 

[Cat]

Oh no a girl showing her midriff at an amusement park. Someone call the police. 

 

Prudes 

[PandaPancake]

Oh no a girl showing her midriff at an amusement park. Someone call the police. 

 

Prudes 

 

Yes because that is the appropriate response when I question parenting.

[Jase]

Why does it make you feel uncomfortable? Are you attracted to 12 year old girls? :)

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[Captroop]

I have less of a problem with her wearing shorts so much as I hate people with a "special snowflake" attitude. "Fug your rules. I should be able to do whatever I want. I'm a special snowflake." I mean a dress code is a pretty god damned easy thing to adhere to, and the finger-length test is a pretty god damned reasonable test of modesty that doesn't force people to have some kind of puritanical wardrobe to adhere to. But SHE wants to wear short shorts, because SHE feels entitled, and SHE should be allowed to break the rules and do whatever the hell SHE wants!

 

And now, because she's been marginally inconvenienced by not being able to wear a pair of short shorts, she'd got to turn this into a media issue, a legal issue, a social media campaign, and even a feminist issue. Because boys are evil rapist objectifiers! That girl's slutty clothes just reflects how disgustingly perverted men are.

 

And why? Because one girl was told she shouldn't wear one pair of shorts. Instead of making one minor change, she now feels motivated to have the entire fuging system modified in order to suit her so she doesn't have to change anything.

 

And that is the problem with the Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, social media culture, and youths thinking everyone needs to know everything that he or she thinks, does, believes or supports. It's creating a world where we aren't a community anymore. We are an island chain of individuals who ultimately just want to look out for number one, and complain when a single thing inconveniences them. Moreover, they think their complaints should be important to the rest of society.

 

Delusions of grandeur on a cohort scale. That's our future. So lets celebrate! Rock your short shorts!

[Cat]

Yes because that is the appropriate response when I question parenting.

 

 

You were uncomfortable with girls wearing midriffs and makeup. Seems like a you issue not a parenting issue.

[Cat]

And bingo was his name-o!

See, I'm not a fan of overly smothering parents. Let your kids have freedom to dress and generally act as they will. However, lead them in a good direction with that. Teach them about dignity/self-respect, individuality, and how to not be an asshole. That's what a lot of these kids are missing. And the parents really are the problem here. Being "fashionable" has gotten to the point that I see little kids (I'm talking 5 years old) wearing an orange checkered shirt, with jeans, and orange Nikes with an orange fitted hat. YOUR fuging KID ISN'T GONNA IMPRESS PEOPLE! Stop trying to make your kids into models. Put them in comfortable clothes that look good, sure. But you're not dressing a goddamn manikin. It starts that young. From there, they're going to stay with the trends so they're "popular". I got picked on for fuging years for my jorts (until 8th grade, when I ditched them). Bitch, I rocked my jorts. Yeah, in 6th grade, MOST of my shorts were just old jeans that I cut into shorts (my parents are rednecks, sue me). What of it? I wore plain fuging t-shirts, or band shirts, or the occasional polo. I turned out just fine and attracted my fair share of women, AND I didn't become a little douchebag like a lot of the "fashionable" guys, either, because I had dignity and plenty of self-esteem because I was happy with me for my own reasons, not because my peers approved. For little girls, it's especially dangerous (growing up with my sisters, I think I know). Example: the OP.

I'm not saying that every father should be trying to keep his daughter from showing her shoulders in public or anything like that. Not saying I'd be the dad to say "go put on a different shirt" if something was mildly showing skin to the point that it's generally harmless. But part of a father's job IS keeping your daughter off the pole, right? 

 

 

 

Why do you have a problem with parents dressing their kids nicely or like "models"? Why should they be wearing what you deem comfortable clothes? 

 

Also wearing midriffs and short shorts doesn't mean you're going to be a stripper. That's just ridiculous.

[Inimicus]

I have less of a problem with her wearing shorts so much as I hate people with a "special snowflake" attitude. "Fug your rules. I should be able to do whatever I want. I'm a special snowflake." I mean a dress code is a pretty god damned easy thing to adhere to, and the finger-length test is a pretty god damned reasonable test of modesty that doesn't force people to have some kind of puritanical wardrobe to adhere to. But SHE wants to wear short shorts, because SHE feels entitled, and SHE should be allowed to break the rules and do whatever the hell SHE wants!

 

And now, because she's been marginally inconvenienced by not being able to wear a pair of short shorts, she'd got to turn this into a media issue, a legal issue, a social media campaign, and even a feminist issue. Because boys are evil rapist objectifiers! That girl's slutty clothes just reflects how disgustingly perverted men are.

 

And why? Because one girl was told she shouldn't wear one pair of shorts. Instead of making one minor change, she now feels motivated to have the entire fuging system modified in order to suit her so she doesn't have to change anything.

 

And that is the problem with the Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, social media culture, and youths thinking everyone needs to know everything that he or she thinks, does, believes or supports. It's creating a world where we aren't a community anymore. We are an island chain of individuals who ultimately just want to look out for number one, and complain when a single thing inconveniences them. Moreover, they think their complaints should be important to the rest of society.

 

Delusions of grandeur on a cohort scale. That's our future. So lets celebrate! Rock your short shorts!

 

Halle-fuging-lujah!

[SCP]

Somebody needs to watch Footloose.

[Jangler]

I blame Elvis and his hips.

[Panthro]

I wish I had a boy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No i dont :)

[frash.exe]

It's the "twitter-Instagram-Facebook-Pinterest-Snapchat-Whateverthehellstarted5minutesago" mentality. "Let me shock the world into noticing me."

What about the "let's all pine about what younger generations are doing while we all popped LSD and fuged in public parks" mentality?