Do my short-shorts make you feel weird about your masculinity? Good, I'm glad [View all]

[Liberal_in_LA]

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