Do my short-shorts make you feel weird about your masculinity? Good, I'm glad
Models in short shorts
I was walking down the street the other day when two men in a car came to a screeching stop just to yell at me. And while usually I welcome anytime I can stop traffic and even love a good catcall – and will respectfully deliver one back to a man– this time, it wasn’t particularly flattering
“Boys shouldn’t wear short-shorts! No!” one of the men screamed.
My first thought was: These aren’t even my short ones!
Since then, I’ve been yelled at a few more times about my shorts, most recently by a woman in a passenger seat of a van who angrily called my khaki shorts “hot pants”. (I couldn’t tell if her anger was at the shorts or because I had jaywalked.)
Celebrity stylist Aaron Gray – who was recently anointed the “gay bestie” to Real Housewives of Atlanta star Nene Leakes – told me that he has experienced street harassment for as long as he can remember. “I once had a man throw a glass bottle at me – not because I was wearing short-shorts, but because my legs looked too feminine in them and he thought I was a girl,” he said.
“Which says more about him and the issues he had with sexuality,” he continued.
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Last year, the hemline of shorts began to rise above the knee and flirt with the male “private parts”: immediately anti-men’s shorts sentiments exploded across the internet debating whether men should wear short-shorts, or even shorts at all. Even famed photographer Annie Lebowitz chimed in and said that men in shorts were “repulsive”, and that shorts made men look like children, harkening back to the origins of the apparel.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/07/short-shorts-weird-masculinity-good
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Before:
And Now. Quite daring I think:
because that would mean I am inviting them to evaluate MY fashion sense and THAT is a no-no 
Then, sadly, they seemed to change manufacturers because the quality went down. Now I just shop Costco. (You may have noticed I buy his wardrobe. The man hates to shop. 
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My husband has a couple old pairs of short shorts - he wears them around the house sometimes - we call them his "bobbies." 
Kinda like "Daisy Dukes" for guys,
look more like the kid on the right so you won't be catching me wearing short shorts but I have no problem with someone who feels good enough in their skin to wear short shorts. I like my shorts to hit me just about the knee. Speaking of wearing shorts yesterday I wore socks with my shorts for the first time ever. I'm a late comer to the wearing shorts world though as I am or used to be built more like a rail so I avoided them like the plague but with age I put on a few and got a whole hell of a lot more I don't give a shititis what someone says or thinks about me so I wear shorts, A Lot, now.
I'd give anything to look like the guy on the left or in the middle I but realize that day ain't coming so what the heck
ETA: my socks yesterday, I kinda' bunched them up down around my ankles, felt too weird to me to pull them all the way up.
I guess I'm just weird like that 
The men showing more leg and skin than the women.
And those socks are godawful. 
--imm
we all wore shorts that short maybe it's making a comeback.