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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.
Supposedly Roundup and cancer are aligned. I don't know all the facts though.
There are only two parts of me people ever compliment me on: my eyes and my calves.
I'm-a wearin' shorts.
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.
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.
Today is the first I've ever heard of anti shorts. The world is weird, man.
Same, and I hope it's the last too
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.
Same here, but I'm from north of Sac. My wife doesn't understand the shorts with a hoodie combo.
Being comfortable IS Dad Mode.
I do wear shorts, actually mostly skorts, but I'm never quite brave enough to wear them to work.
Go get some sunshine and exercise. Your mom needs to vacuum your lair
Everytime I wear shorts I end up walking through knee high spikey bush so I get the hate.
i fucking love shorts because i can show off my meteoric thunder thighs to the world and slay the day
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 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 how it happened for me too. I started lifting and now comfortably wear shorts short enough to show some thigh lol
Did you perhaps become a father?
Does becoming a father make you less body conscious?
Sometimes...
Not even close!