This Facebook Group Took “Creepy” Photos of Young Women And Slut-Shamed Them
Next time you’re out enjoying a beautiful summer day in cut-off shorts, watch out! Someone may be snapping covert photos of you for their creepy, slut-shaming Facebook group. At least that’s what was going on in the “Your Father Would Not Approve” Facebook group, in which members posted photos of women dressed “inappropriately” at college football games, according to The Tab.
The bio of “Your Father Would Not Approve,” which has now been deleted, read: “After attending a college football game with my adult daughter and two of her friends, we noticed an appalling trend. Young girls dressed (or not dressed) in the most inappropriate clothes. It’s a football game for pete’s sake.”
The screenshots still in circulation show women mostly in short shorts and rompers, looking uniformly comfortable and appropriate for attending a football game or tailgating.
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The group’s founder, Sherri Barnett House wrote of the site’s mission, “Skirts that show your rear end, tops cut literally down to your navel, stiletto heels, skin tight dresses that you have to hold down with your hands so you can walk……entirely inappropriate for a sporting event. Ask yourself, would my father approve of this outfit? If that answer is no, CHANGE!”
House and other members appear to have been taking the girls’s pictures and posting them without their knowledge, causing concerned students to report the page for invasion of privacy.
Others didn’t take too kindly to the idea that women should be defined by what they wear, much less by their father’s standards. One group member posted the following in response:
“The fathers of these girls probably wouldn’t approve of you taking creepy pictures of their daughters. The trends have changed quite a bit since y’all have attended the university, and as women we should be focusing on building up other women instead of slut-shaming them.”
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In response to criticism, House deleted the group, saying that she had intended it to be small and private.
While Facebook and other social media is a hotbed of misogynistic, slut-shaming and body-shaming humor (see: any meme ever), this kind of behavior on social media can have actual consequences. When Playboy model Dani Mathers posted a covert shot of a nude woman in her 70s using gym locker room facilities to her Snapchat this July, she was not only banned from the gym and lost her job at a radio station, but could face misdemeanor charges. Mathers posted the photo with the snarky caption “If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either.“
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Before deleting the group, House posted that her own daughter graduated college just three years ago. Let’s hope she doesn’t have to ask her father for permission on what to wear.
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