A dad-of-three slammed other parents for shaming his daughters’ homecoming dresses as ‘inappropriate’ and ‘provocative’ – while branding him ‘crazy’ for allowing the girls to wear the designs.
Father and Florida news anchor, Matt Austin, took to TikTok this month to launch a furious attack on internet trolls who criticized a Facebook image he shared of himself posing with his daughters as they prepared to head off to a school dance.
In his original Facebook post, the proud dad waxed lyrical about his two teenage daughters, who were dressed to the nines in anticipation of homecoming, writing: ‘My daughters look a little too good on homecoming night. Believe it or not, they’re even more beautiful on the inside.’
However his sweet sentiment was quickly soured in the comments section, where dozens of ‘Karens’ began attacking his daughter’s outfits, branding the short dresses ‘inappropriate’ and ‘provocative’, while blasting Matt for allowing them to wear the garments.
Matt Austin, a dad-of-three from Florida, slammed other parents for shaming his daughters’ homecoming dresses
Internet trolls branded the news anchor’s children’s ensembles ‘proactive’ and ‘inappropriate’ before labeling the dad ‘crazy’
After reading the comments section, the dad decided share his own message to the haters on TikTok and said it was the other parents ‘job’ to not raise ‘perverts’
The News 6 Orlando news anchor has a large Facebook following and received over 900 comments – most of them slamming both the dad’s parenting style and the daughters’ formal wear, which saw the daughters wearing mini black and pink dresses with stilettos.
After reading the comments section, the dad decided share his own message to the haters on TikTok.
‘So I put up what I thought what was a pretty innocuous post about my daughters looking beautiful for homecoming, but you would be shocked at some of the comments,’ he said in his video before showing multiple comments of users slamming him and his daughters.
One hate comment read: ‘I don’t think I would be dressed like that around my father and he would be okay with that, it’s crazy!’
Another user said: ‘Those girls are too young to be dressing provocatively, they should have respect for themselves.’
Another commenter stated: ‘I have two grown and married daughters. These outfits are not prom appropriate, those are what women wear to clubs when they are single looking for some action.’
‘So sad that parents think it’s ok to send the young ladies out with everything showing,’ wrote another user.
Austin shared the photo of his daughters wearing mini dresses in what he thought to be a sweet moment, however, haters were quick to trash him
‘Let’s get something crystal clear now, it’s not my daughters job to make sure your son is focused in school,’ he said while clapping back at haters
Austin was so grateful for his TikTok followers who praised him he even shared another video thanking them for making him feel ‘better’
After showing his over 74,000 followers the cruel comments directed towards his daughters’ homecoming dresses, he went back to giving the haters a stern message.
‘One thing that has always pissed me off as a father of girls is when people say things like, ”Oh these girls need to dress so they don’t distract the boys”, or even worse, ”They’re dressing a way in which they’re asking for it”.
‘Let’s get something crystal clear now, it’s not my daughters job to make sure your son is focused in school, also not her job to dress hideous enough to where your son doesn’t assault her.
‘It’s your job to not raise a pervert with no self control.’
The dad admitted that if it were up to him, he would’ve chosen different outfits for his children, but made it clear he wanted to teach his children to be comfortable in who they are.
‘Now let’s be clear, those outfits are not the ones I would choose for my daughters to leave house, if it wee up to me it would be 24/7 snuggies, but if I start dictating what my daughters wear, I’m going to teach them three things.
‘A. They’ll start to hate me for arbitrary rules. B. They’ll start to lie to me or C. Maybe even worse, that it’s okay for a man to tell them what to wear because they look too good, and that ain’t happening, Karen.
‘But you know what would really disappoint me, if my girls grew up to be the kind of adult who goes on social media and demeans a teen’s appearance on her father’s Facebook page, now that’s what I call trashy,’ he said at end of his stern video.
And while Facebook users didn’t have his back, TikTok users flooded the dad’s comments section with words of praise, thanking him for being such an ‘amazing’ parent
And while Facebook users didn’t have his back, TikTok users flooded the dad’s comments section with words of praise, thanking him for being such an ‘amazing’ parent.
One user said: ‘This! I wish everyone could have this mindset.’
Another user wrote: ‘Thank you! You are an amazing dad raising amazing strong girls.. it’s rough out here for us females.’
‘Your girls are beautiful and it’s homecoming this is normal homecoming dress, I do not see the issue and I 100 per cent agree with you your a great dad,’ added one user.
‘Yes! I raised three daughters and feel exactly the same. They are not responsible for a man’s thoughts,’ wrote one user.
Another person commented: ‘Boy mom here, it’s my job to teach my son that he needs to respect women.’
Austin was so grateful for his TikTok followers he even shared another video thanking them for making him feel ‘better.’
He said: ‘I just wanted to say thank you for doing something I never thought the internet could do, which is make me feel better.’
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