I did shave them.

I like shorts.
They're comfy and easy to wear.
- I'm actually wearing a skort.
  
  I want someone to make a comic strip of a skort-wearing skwerl that goes to skool.
- I used to laugh at that little boy who said shorts are comfy and easy to wear, but by God was he right about it.
- Top percentage right here
- !
  
  battle music ensues
- I often would rather be cold in shorts than uncomfortable in pants
  Loose comfy sweatpants are the exception to this, and work from home has spoiled regular pants for me

..I hate when people only look at clothes for fashion and their appearance. Clothes sound be more functional then anything.
- I've seen people try to say that shorts are "unprofessional" but my counter is being a sweaty mess is worse. If it isn't cold enough to warrant pants, in wearing shorts!
  
  Yes. The idea of what's professional needs to adapt to our changed climate. If I dressed like that in the summer heat I'ma pass out.
  
  I'm baffled how much people care about other people's clothing. It's childish. How do shorts or pants have anything to do with professionalism?
  
  Hi! I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!
  
  Ugh this is what I have to deal with. I have to wear slacks when I go to work and it's awful right now in this hot weather.
- I agree but for me shorts are bad because they reveal more of "me". They also make my shoes look even bigger if my pants aren't going over them.
- Why do we design other buildings than concrete cubes? Why do we plant trees on the side of the road? Why do we put paintings in our hallways? Why do we paint our walls anything other than hospital grey? Why do websites have CSS? Why do we gift each other flowers?
  Esthetics, self-expression, culture. Fashion is the most personal form of self-expression, it should not be a surprise that people care about it so much.
  I don't care if you wear socks and sandals, you don't have an obligation to partake in cultural norms, but going all the way around to "fashion is stupid and clothes are just there for wind protection" is nihilistic beyond usefulness.
  
  Clothes have function over style. If you pick style over function, you're in for a bad time.
  They still build buildings with a strong foundation regardless of how pretty it looks...function Over style still wins.
  Trees provide protection from sun. Function over style.

- I also wear Tevas( sandals) ! Of course I also haven't had a date in years...
  
  Because you're happily married, right?
  Right???
- Holy crap going through that section in (EDIT: Pokémon) Red was more or less hell

You don't wear shorts because legs, I don't wear shorts for mosquito defense. We are not the same LMAO
- I am a mosquito banquet actually. There's always a bite on the back of my knee even if I wear pants.

Legs are just arms with shitty hands.
- Arms are just legs with shitty feet.
  
  Nah our hands make much better foot substitutes than our feet do hands substitutes. Walking on your hands is way easier than trying to paint a masterpiece or code for hours with your feet!
  
  Nah, check out some apes, they've got opposable thumbs on their feet. Our feet are objectively worse, you can only stand on them.
  
  Heh in German the word for gloves is literally hand shoe. So you’ve a very German pov.

Neovictorianism in the time of onlyfans is exactly what I was expecting in 2024
- Neo victioroanism has been around for a while. Fainting couch feminism as is called.

This is such a trans tweet lol
- I feel that way as a cis guy. :(
  
  It’s not unheard of among cis men too, my dad was always struggling to bulk up his legs because he thought they looked too skinny. Trans people just tend to be extra vulnerable to feeling pressure about their bodies, both for dysphoria reasons and societal reasons.
- I think this applies to almost everybody.
  
  Maybe. It doesn't apply to me. I love shorts, I love my legs.

Haven't shaved my legs since 2019 and it's the best. I only shave my pits at this point because my sweat smells worse with hair there. Everything else is free, as nature intended.
- Opposite here. Used to never shave. Shaved and the smoothness is intoxicating. It's a pain to do tho.
  
  Taking the time to do it is part of why I stopped. I have better shit to do than worry about body hair that's there for a reason lol.
  
  A... are you all women? Or are men like supposed to shave their legs too and somebody forgot to tell me?

I really never understand any amount of shame of one's own body. Like I understand tons and tons of people feel it but I don't understand why.
- I think it boils down to a fear of rejection.
  Our entire lives we watch pretty people on TV being pretty, that's the most influential standard for "pretty" we have, and still sometimes the script calls for one of them to be labelled as "ugly" and to be ridiculed or rejected from the "cool ones" because of it. Think of all those beautiful acresses cast as nerdy characters who's hair was put into a ponytail, who got given glasses and a singular fake pimple (of even) and everyone pretended like they were some epitome of unattractiveness
  obviously TV didn't make this problem, but it sure as hell made it worse.
  you don't want to be ugly, because the ugly ones don't fit in, the ugly ones don't eat with us, the ugly ones are poor and smelly, so you don't want to be seen as ugly, do you?
- I have scars / bumps on my legs that I am self conscious about. I wanted to wear a dress to a party in mid summer. Two months of extreme effort to moisturize and not scratch and I thought they looked pretty darn good ... For me at least. My niece asked why I had polka dots on my legs within two minutes of greeting me. Kids just be spittin' truth. So I cover my legs.
  
  Who cares? I know you do, but don't, nobody else is going to look at your legs and think anything other than it's a set of legs. Be comfortable in your own skin, it's yours and if anyone has a problem with it, you know they're just a tiny hateful piece of shit that's jealous of you.
- For me it's the result of lasting trauma from when I was bullied as a child for wearing "short shorts". Not that I had a choice in the matter because my mom was buying all my clothes at the time and wasn't about to replace a bunch of perfectly good (in her opinion) shorts. My only recourse was to just wear jeans all the time from then on until I was able to buy my own clothes but by then I was more comfortable in jeans all the time.
- It's like a defense mechanism for me. Imagine you are always an outsider and you see that people who are insiders get treated super badly at some point just for not looking "perfect". You start to be cautious about what you wear and how you look, because you need all the tricks you can get to finally fit in. You want friends to, maybe even find love. Everything social in your life might depend on it and who are you to doom yourself. What, you still haven't done it? Look how easy all of them do it, but you are still just trying? Well it can't be everyone else can it? There must be something more, maybe you're not trying hard enough. Maybe you are just too dumb to really try, maybe your stupid body is just too misshapen to get comfortable. Maybe it's you. You are the problem.
  Anyway, there's some context. Oh and also if you throw body dysmorphia in the mix the thoughts sound even more crazy.
  Oh also for anyone wondering, I don't have it as much so don't worry about me, but I have this just a little bit so I can at least feel how other people hone in on this stuff.
  
  So it's not a fear of being judged but rather a fear of consequence for not adhering to a standard?
- I can't speak to everyone, but for a lot of women my age, it's because we grew up being bombarded with images of objectively thin women and being told that they were fat. You couldn't go to the grocery store without seeing magazines talking about celebrities with cellulite and the tone was always, "can you believe she went out like that?" I remember Jessica Simpson wearing this outfit and being called awful names for how "big" she looked. It's hard to get past literal decades of that shit.
  
  She may not be as slim as in her early career, but she still looks great. However, those pants are doing some serious work!
  
  Okay but if you think your body and heart is strong and capable then why give a fuck what some worm who works a dead end job for a Gossip Magazine might hypothetically think? Like, I don't deny the culture you described exists, but you're your own person with full control of your actions. The people, who might shame you, should be seen as weak and foolish for doing so. Laugh at them. Be comfortable in your skin. No one else can be you. You're the one. Being the best you does not mean being the idol envisioned by others.
- Gender dysphoria
  
  Some shorts might be gendered but I think in a general sense they're absolutely not.
  
  Im just out of shape dude. Mind you I can still break someone over my knee, but having a guts a bit uncomfortable both physically and emotionally.

Well, I suppose the shorts weren't going to shave themselves.

You clearly have not lived with 32°C
- It's going to be 34 here this week. I'll probably be at home in my underwear.
  
  when it's anything above +25, i stay at home naked with my ac on. if i have to go somewhere, linen shorts and t. and i still sweat like a pig.
  
  You're at home. Who cares. Be comfortable
  
  You wear underwear at home?
- I come from the north; anything above 20° and I graduate to the shorter shorts.
  
  Anything above 8° is shorts weather unless you're hiking. Going by your instance though, I guess hiking isn't an option for you.
- It could be 40 and I wouldn't even consider purchasing shorts.
  
  You must enjoy some schweddy balls
  https://youtube.com/watch?v=bPpcfH_HHH8

My comfort clothes are jeans. I wear them year round in Houston Texas. I'm also pale as a ghost.
- Jean shorts exist.
  
  I'm not much of a jorts man
- May our legs provide light and guidance to those lost in the night.
- k

Idc legs are hot 🦵🤤🥵
- the truth

i fucking love shorts because i can show off my meteoric thunder thighs to the world and slay the day

Who cares how your legs look like? Do you also always cover your arms because you don't like people seeing them?
- Never. I don't care what people believe in their religion but I think nothing is stupider than religions that make you wear clothes that cover you all over.
  I saw a little Muslim girl diving into a pool one day in a heavy plaid shirt and a hijab, and I just couldn't believe how stupid that is. You're like 8, what's sexual about you?
  
  The Prophet Muhammad married an 8-year-old. That kind of puts it into perspective.
- Long sleeves ftw

I have no idea why but for many years I felt this way too. Then it just went away and I have no idea why I would be embarrassed about my legs. Shorts are great!
- Did you perhaps become a father?
  
  Does becoming a father make you less body conscious?
  
  Not even close!
- Did you get a job as a postman?
  
  Haha, nope, not this one too.
  TBH I think I just became less self conscious and more confident about my body when I started exercising.

This is tragic

There are only two parts of me people ever compliment me on: my eyes and my calves.
I'm-a wearin' shorts.

In the last four years I've worn long trousers maybe twice, and both times were for funerals.

Growing up in coastal California, the uniform for all genders was shorts and a hoodie, often of the Mexican variety.
Now I'm old and my shorts wearing habit is apparently dad mode.
Whatevs with the dad thing. Be comfortable.
- Being comfortable IS Dad Mode.
- It's always amused me that there is this bizarre (to me) subculture that is militantly anti-shorts. It's always someone from like Scotland or New Hampshire. My dude, I'm not wearing pants in Florida from April to October unless I have a funeral, wedding (maybe!), court appearance, or in-person business event. And I'm only wearing socks if God appears and instructs me to do so in person--which, given I am entirely unreligious, isn't much of a risk.
  
  Actually, more context: my Floridian spouse is weirded out that I wear shorts in the cold, but I picked that up in a cold climate on a farm: my legs don't get cold, and wearing pants to throw hay at cows doesn't really check out.
  
  Today is the first I've ever heard of anti shorts. The world is weird, man.
- Same here, but I'm from north of Sac. My wife doesn't understand the shorts with a hoodie combo.
- I do wear shorts, actually mostly skorts, but I'm never quite brave enough to wear them to work.

I only really hate shorts because my legs are always bruised. It reminds me of how clumsy I am.
- Same. But it's hot as fuck outside so I don't feel like I got a choice
- I don’t know why but bruised knees are universally loved. Okay maybe I know and the reasons are disgusting. Actually forget that I said anything.

Everytime I wear shorts I end up walking through knee high spikey bush so I get the hate.

I don't have a hot take on this. I wear jeans all the time for protection from spiky plants, ticks and other ground-based hazards. The leading reason why I don't wear shorts is that.... I don't own any.
I couldn't possibly give any fewer shits if people saw my legs.
- Only time I'm wearing pants.. is for work and for formal social gatherings. Everything else is shorts... However, I may need to re-evaluate that before I go off this week spraying weed killer. Ain't trying to catch cancer, nom sayin'?
  
  I dunno if weed killer is going to be causing cancer, but sure.
  Do what you want.
  I'm mainly concerned with shit like the Lonestar tick which has a chance of making you allergic to red meat if you're bitten.
  I mean, any tick sucks (pun intended), but that is just a whole new level of torture. I love steak. It's probably a big reason why I couldn't be vegan. Steak is just too good.

Go get some sunshine and exercise. Your mom needs to vacuum your lair

- You cant just walk around throwing arguments like that without citing sources
- You're getting downvoted, but the guys wearing basketball shorts everywhere have tons of kids.