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  • Board Shorts Ban In Nova Scotia Challenged By Parents

    A school board in Nova Scotia recently banned girl from wearing short shorts. While it’s commonplace for schools to ban shorts, it’s usually a school-wide ban. In this particular case, only girls were targeted and one parent is not happy.

    Canoe.ca reports that girls were recently chastised for wearing short shorts at a middle school. The reason given to the girls was that the shorts were a distraction to the male students and teachers. One of the girls’ parents, Julia Roberts-Davison, has started a petition in support of her daughter being able to wear shorts. She argues that the school’s stance isn’t about the shorts, but rather one that suggests women should change how they look for the men around them.

    Because our daughters are being treated as though it is ok for men and boys to use them as sexual objects. They are being taught that they should change the way they dress but that men and boys do not have to change their way of thinking .

    Even worse, Roberts-Davison claims that another female student was told to wear pants due to the “distracting” scars on her legs:

    Another child in my daughter’s class, who was in the office at the same time , was told that she was not allowed to wear shorts because of scars on her legs. I should add that these scars are the result of a hard time in this child’s life. She was at a point in her life where she used to self-harm …the scars were the result of this. She was told that her scars were inappropriate for the learning environment and that other kids were distracted by them.

    Alongside the petition, the school is getting slammed on Facebook by members of the community:

    Post by Jan Hawkins Piller.

    Post by Kristina Marie Daye.

    Defending its decision, the school says it implements the fingertip test to determine whether a student’s shorts are too short. In short, the shorts are fine if they go past the student’s finger when their hands are at rest. It also supplied the following statement:

    “If a student wears an article of clothing that is not appropriate — pants that ride too low or muscle shirts, for example — then a conversation happens with the student and his/her parent or guardian. If possible, the student is asked to change into something more appropriate.”

    As you can imagine, the current situation is messy for everybody. It’s understandable for the school to enforce a short shorts rule, but it should have enforced the rule as is. By bringing in the student’s sex into the matter and saying she was a distraction, it has opened a can of worms it obviously isn’t prepared to handle.

    Image via The Morning Show/YouTube

  • Scott Mackintosh: Who Wears Short-Shorts? This Guy

    Despite the fact that I am only 24 years old, I have often debated about whether or not I want to have kids. There are plenty of arguments both for and against. However, I may have just discovered one thing that will ensure I never have a daughter.

    Scott Mackintosh, a Utah dad of 7 kids, discovered his feminine side on August 27, 2013 – a day he will never forget. Mr. Mackintosh describes himself as an old-fashioned parent who looks and speaks like a redneck, but who also deeply loves his kids. He loves his daughter Myley so much, in fact, that one day he decided to walk a mile in her….shorts. Short-shorts to be exact.

    According to Scott, the whole incident began when his daughter refused to change her shorts (which both he and his wife believed were too short) in order to go to a restaurant and then to mini-golf: “Instead of turning her response and disrespectful attitude into a major battle, I decided to make a “small” statement on how her short-shorts maybe aren’t as “cute” as she thinks,” stated Mackintosh on his wife’s blog. So, Scott when to his room, grabbed a pair of old jeans, and hacked them down into short-shorts. He completed the ensemble with a shirt which read “World’s Best Dad”.

    Once properly attired, Scott and his family spent a night out on the town as they had planned. During the ordeal, Scott said that his daughter attempted to act as if the situation wasn’t bothering her. However, by the time the family stopped for ice cream (after dinner and mini-golf), Myley had decided that she had had enough and stayed in the car.

    Since the video went viral, Scott Mackintosh said that the message was twisted: “There was no “Dad I get it” or “Dad you’re the best…. thanks for that awesome lesson.” I don’t think my object lesson of “modest is hottest” made the statement I had intended.” However, Scott says that whether or not the lesson worked, he knows that his daughter will now forever understand how much he loves her….

    Or will she? What message does this really send to Myley and the rest of Scott Mackintosh’s children. How does public shaming his daughter teach her that short-shorts are bad, and how does it prove that he loves her? According to Myley’s Facebook page, she is 19 years old. Isn’t time for dad to let up a little and let his daughter make her own decisions in life? Also, what happened to father’s raising their daughters to bring strong individuals not beholden to traditional masculine, sexist standards? Has feminism flown out the window?

    Granted, who wouldn’t want their daughter to stop wearing short-shorts when she looks like this:

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    Perhaps the most disturbing event of all is that when Scott Mackintosh initially approached his children wearing his short-shorts, they didn’t even notice. Instead, they were too busy staring at their cell phones to realize what a fool their dad was being. How does that happen? One knows the situation between kids and their phones is severe whenever they do not seize the opportunity to ridicule and lambaste their father forever for his actions. Or at least take more pictures or videos. Damn, kids. Step up your game.

    Image via Becky Mackintosh’s Blog