A Utah dad had decided to wear short-shorts to teach his daughter a lesson, Daily Mail reported Thursday.
Scott Mackintosh had decided to turn a pair of his own jeans into micro-shorts to demonstrate how unhappy he is with his teenage daughter's skimpy wardrobe.
Mackintosh wrote on his wife's blog, Becky Mack's Blog of Mild Chaos that he and his family were about to go on a night out to have dinner and go play miniature golf, but after he heard his wife asking their teenage daughter to change her micro-shorts and after his daughter responded "no," he decided to "make a small statement on how her shorts maybe aren't as cute as she thinks!"
The Utah dad, a father of seven, grabbed a pair of jeans and cut them into a tiny pair and matched it with a "Best Dad Ever" T-shirt, an ensemble he wore for their family dinner.
"I'm a firm believer that the way we dress sends messages about us, and it influences the way we and others act," he added in his blog entry.
However, his daughter did not change out of her Daisy Dukes despite of the clear statement her father wants to point across, instead she even asked Mackintosh, "Why are you dressed like that?" and added quickly, "Oh well, I don't care."
After their dinner, they decided to go to a local ice cream shop, and there the Utah dad's daughter cracked, saying "Uh, no! We are not going in!"
Daily Mail reported that Mackintosh, his wife, and their son went inside the shop, but their daughter remained seated inside their car.
Nevertheless, Mackintosh is still unsure whether the lesson sunk in.
In Mackintosh's appearance on Today show, he said, "I was absolutely going for shock value and embarrassment."
"There was no "Dad I get it," he added."But no matter if social media gets the story mixed up and twisted, my daughter will always know that her dad loves her and cares about her enough to make a fool out of himself."
"I simply did this in hopes that my daughter would know of my great love for her and that she knows of her great worth," the Utah dad said in a statement to Desert News. "Now that it has gone viral, I hope that young women everywhere understand their great worth. I will look like an idiot any day if that point gets across."
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