# "My Daughter Was Dress-Coded For Wearing Shorts"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-dress-coded-for-wearing-shorts/690450>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 10, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-dress-coded-for-wearing-shorts/690450 "2014-06-10T01:03:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-was-dress-coded-for-wearing-shorts/690450/112 "2014-06-11T21:34:57Z")

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> [@Rachellelogram](#):
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> Have you done any self-reflection about why your values don’t match your son’s but do match your daughter’s? Is it possible that you share your daughter’s values because she happens to have a vagina? Children are not and should not be raised as mini-yous.

Perhaps because he is a different person and my daughter is a lot like me. Not at all that she has a vagina - but rather that my husband, daughter and I share interests, and my son is the odd duck out. We are readers, he is an athlete. We like smart media consumption, to him, the height of cinema is The Hangover Two. He’s musical, we have tin ears. He is just a different person - not bad or good - just different.

Have I done self reflection - well, he’s adopted - yes, fifteen years of self reflection on nature vs. nurture and whether I should have forced him to go to Sunday school or if allowing him to develop his own values was a good decision.

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