If men can r*pe woman when they're wearing joggers and a hoody or little girls wearing little girl clothes, it shows that it's not the clothes that make men do that, it's the f*cked up mens mind that does it and clothes have nothing to do with it. The majority of men know to respect woman and know that they do this regardless of what they wear. Gosh females of all ages wear a lot less when they're at the beach or swimming and men can respect that, so wearing a short dress like that to a party is no different. Bet those people complaining would be saying the same if he was posting a photo of him and his children at the beach or of them after competing at a swimming competition!?

I'm a guy, and the dad here is correct. We should be moving past those outdated ideas of "save skin for marriage". They look great, and it doesn't matter anyways.

"That's too much skin!" "Oh, okay." *takes off skin and hangs it neatly on coat rack*

My dad would let me walk around in a mini skirt in the 80s. Boys in school were normal. One warned me that they could see my underwear when I biked. That was sweet. I was 13. Who cares. All teen girls walked around like that. And then we went on a holiday and some old creep grabbed my a*s, passing by and I was shocked and he was like: What? You're asking for it. Don't worry about boys in school. Worry about old creeps.

Imagine a dad posting a pick of his son holding a stack of condoms about to go to prom. Would the comments be..... save it for marriage or atta boy, hope he get some?

Yes Dad! One of the things that angers me most is this attitude that women who show skin are 'asking for it.' Why should a young girl or grown woman not be able to wear what she wants because a man might sexually assault her?! That attitude is the reason why many sexual assault victims don't report it, as they feel they won't be believed because they happened to be wearing a skirt at the time. I think those girls look very pretty and I applaud this Dad for giving his daughters freedom to make choices rather than trying to control them. Controlling your children just leads to them keeping secrets.

Those dresses are perfectly fine! And the girls look great. Plus, homecoming is a SHORT DRESS EVENT. Have none of those people leaving nasty comments ever been to a school dance?

My dad wouldn't let me leave the house in anything he considered too short or revealing, so I took the clothes I really wanted to wear with me and got changed. Strict parents create sneaky kids who don't feel comfortable going to their parents if they are ever in a situation they can't get themselves out of. I was totally different with my daughter, she was even more headstrong than I was and would alway do whatever she wanted. The big difference was that she felt safe to come to me with her problems and knew I would always be there to rescue her and her friends if needed.

There are men and women out there who r*pe children wearing elmo pyjamas. This act of victim blaming, and "asking for it" mentality has always made me sick.

When people say things like that, it implies that rape occurs because a man is just too horny, couldn't control themselves. Just don't f**king rape people. We're all NOT doing right now. Rape is about power, making someone feel weak. That's why they do it. Not because they saw someone in a belly shirt.

If your child gets distracted by a woman's fashion choices, that's their problem. Women should get to dress how they f*****g want to. And no woman is asking for rape based on how they're dressed! No woman WANTS to be raped, that I can assure you. It's victim blaming to say that and it makes me sick because some women fall for the societal disillusion that it's their fault and it really f***s with their mental health when it's nobody's fault but the rapist pig themself.

Rapists rape people, not clothes.

I agree with this dad, but this is also the reason why a lot of parents choose not to publicly post photos of their kids on social media. No matter how supportive dad is, the inevitable comments can be devastating. When I was a freshman in high school - long before social media - I was growing, and I had put on a little weight (by which I mean I had gone from maybe a size 3 to a size 5). My jeans had all gotten a little snug. One day my mom took me aside after an event to tell me that she overheard some of the other moms clucking about "that girl wearing those skin-tight pants." She went on to say that she thought I looked fine and didn't need new pants, but that "some people" were saying I looked trashy. My 14 year-old self was mortified, of course. I think I started my first diet the next day, which was the beginning of a long, unhealthy obsession with my weight.

Humans.... esp in America and the Middle East, insisting women should be covered head to toe in layers of cloth because men can't control themselves. All other species on the planet: 100% naked.

This is a great dad. Those Karen's sound like teachers at my old high school. The whole "cover up so you don't distract the boys" is such a rancid pile of horseshit. Basically, my education didn't matter as much because I don't have a penis. I hate people like this. This is a damn good father.

I find it almost amusing one of the commenters whole arguments was "But if you let them dress the way they want, they might start to feel good about themselves and the way they look, oh no!"

Kudos to dad on raising wonderful daughters with self-esteem! For homecoming dance those are absolutely appropriate dresses and they both look lovely. It's prom that is formal and tending towards floor-length. The women spreading hate are either the type who weren't invited to a dance so are being salty or they are just keyboard warriors feigning moral outrage to look good for their other Karen "friends". Speaking as someone who was harshly policed re what i could wear as a teenager, setting boundaries for no reason destroys parental relationships. I wasn't allowed jewelry, to wear the clothes that were in style or to choose my own haircuts. I moved out the day i turned 18, dyed my hair pink and shaved my head and wore the most outlandish clothes i could find with my newfound freedom. I also didn't speak to my parents for several years. Conversation and respect, both for one's self and between parents and child are needed for a good start on life.

How you going to sit here on the internet and complain about what two teenage girls are wearing and you go watch music video where the girls are wearing I don't know a quarter of that and celebrate their musicianship and all that nonsense. Don't hit on young women for dressing like the ones in the videos that they see everyday what's popular what's now what's right what's fashionable is what they see if y'all don't like the way what they're doing then you got to change what society see as acceptable on TV and other media outlets.

The funny thing is that I think the dress on the left would be perfect to put on an adult female model, have her pose with a huge beer inside a bar setting, and use that image in a PSA with the words "The only thing she deserves is a hangover," in bold print. Because I don't really think that dress is revealing, especially not compared to the awful stuff young people wore in the early 2000s, as displayed in that one photo provided in the second set of comments. Compared to those fashion disasters this man's daughters look straight up straitlaced and classy! Teens have *vastly* improved since the teens I despaired over when I was in my early twenties in the early 2000s -- partly because teens these days have better role models, i.e. no Paris Hilton, no Lindsay Lohan, and no Miley Cyrus -- and I remember breathing a huge sigh of relief when I realized that a few years ago, and these teen girls do not trouble me one bit.

The fact that there were so many people defaulting to blaming the girls if something happened instead of blaming the boys with no self-control really says a lot...

All these Karen’s were not in their teens or twenty’s in the late 60’s women wore dresses this short.

It's parents responsibility to teach their son's to respect women. That should be burned into their memory. It's ridiculous to say that women should dress appropriately. By not teaching the boys correct behavior you might be raising a person who has low regard for women. Probably a future abuser.

These look like pretty normal dresses honestly.

i read a disgusting article in the news about an 18 month old baby who was raped to death, what are these people going to blame it on? the brand of nappies?

Rape is a crime of violence, not of sex.

This is very much a clear case of someone being the "cool dad" rather than a positive role model or proper authority figure. I'm with the "fashion police" on this one; modesty goes a long way and you're paving a path for your kids you don't wanna see come high school and you're a forty year old grandpa.

They look great!

Can we PLEASE stop the Karen trope!

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Butt hurt America. So many candy a*s sissies that your head will spin. Butt hurt or some crazy inbred conspiracy theory is common now.

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The only comment I agree with is that prom generally has a formal dress code, and those dresses don't meet that. Every other comment is just creepy though.