“Mom Sparks Controversy Over School Dress Code: Is There a Double Standard for Boys’ and Girls’ Shorts?”
“Probably the scariest part is the parents who defend this kind of insanity like it’s the people who highlight it that are ‘sexualizing’ children,” another said in response to the claim.
“The crotch is longer than the shorts,” the Australian mom commented on a different pair
Image credits: ellitamar
Image credits: ellitamar
Elli herself responded to the accusations by comparing the length of a pair of girls’ board shorts with a boys’ pair in the same size (2).
“Girl shorts always end at the crotch, and the boy’s ones are mid-thigh. The same goes for the denim section, and it doesn’t make any sense considering we’re shopping for toddlers, not teenagers.”
Her videos come after another Australian mother, Althea, fumed over the length of shorts intended for little girls compared to those designed for young boys at Kmart.
“I hate this. Why do we make them this short for girls?” she asked in a video that received over 80,000 likes.
Just like Elli, Althea left the store with a pair of boys’ cargo shorts “because her nappy would literally hang out of these.”
In the end, she purchased a pair of shorts designed for boys that she found “decent for a child”
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The 26-year-old later revealed that she bought the shorts because she needed “something quick,” but her daughter ended up disliking them and expressed a preference for another pair with flowers.
Althea believes the difference in length between the shorts highlights the sexualization of women from an early age in society.
