A father of three lashed out at other parents for disgracing his daughters’ homecoming dresses as “inappropriate” and “provocative” — while labeling him “crazy” for letting the girls wear the designs.
Father and Florida news anchor, Matt Austintook to TikTok this month to launch a furious attack on internet trolls who criticized a Facebook image he shared of him posing with his daughters as they prepared for a school dance.
In his original Facebook post, the proud father raved about his two teenage daughters, who were dressed to perfection in anticipation of their return home: “My daughters look a little too good for homecoming night. Believe it or not, they’re even more beautiful inside.’
However, his sweet sentiment quickly soured in the comments section, where dozens of “Karens” began attacking his daughter’s outfits, calling the short dresses “inappropriate” and “provocative,” while criticizing Matt for being allowed to wear the garments.
Matt Austin, a Florida father of three, criticized other parents for disgracing his daughters’ homecoming dresses
Internet trolls labeled the news anchor’s kid ensembles ‘proactive’ and ‘inappropriate’ before labeling the dad ‘crazy’
After reading the comments section, the dad decided to share his own post with the haters on TikTok, saying it was the other parents’ “job” not to raise “perverts.”
The News 6 Orlando news anchor has a large Facebook following and received more than 900 comments – most of them criticizing both the father’s parenting style and the daughters’ formal attire, with the daughters wearing mini black and pink dresses with stilettos. .
After reading the comment section, the dad decided to share his own post with the haters on TikTok.
“So I posted what I thought was a pretty innocuous post about my daughters looking beautiful for homecoming, but you’d be shocked by some of the comments,” he said in his video before showing multiple comments from users who used him and his daughters beat .
One hate comment read: ‘I don’t think I’d be dressed like that around my dad and he’d be fine with that, it’s crazy!’
Another user said: ‘Those girls are too young to dress provocatively, they should have respect for themselves.’
Another commenter stated, “I have two grown and married daughters. These outfits are not appropriate for a gala, that’s what women wear to clubs when they’re single looking for some action.’
“So sad that parents think it’s okay to send the young ladies out with everything,” wrote another user.
Austin shared the photo of his daughters wearing mini dresses in what he thought was a sweet moment, but haters were quick to destroy him
“Now let’s get something crystal clear, it’s not my daughter’s job to make sure your son is focused in school,” he said, clapping back at haters
Austin was so thankful for his TikTok followers praising him that he even shared another video thanking them for making him feel “better”
After showing his more than 74,000 followers the cruel comments about his daughters’ homecoming dresses, he went back to giving a stern message to the haters.
“One thing that always pisses 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 worse, ‘They dress the way they asking for it”.
“Now let’s get something crystal clear, it’s not my daughter’s job to make sure your son is focused on school, nor is it her job to dress horribly enough so that your son doesn’t attack her.
“It’s your job not to raise a pervert without self-control.”
The father admitted that if it had been up to him, he would have chosen different outfits for his children, but made it clear that he wanted to teach his children to feel comfortable in who they are.
“Let’s be clear, those outfits are not the ones I would choose for my daughters to leave the house, if it were up to me, they would be hugs 24/7, but if I start dictating what my daughters wear, go I to teach them three things.
‘A. They’re going to hate me for arbitrary rules. B. They’re going to lie to me or C. Maybe worse, that it’s okay for a man to tell them what to wear because they look too good, and it’s not 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 humiliates a teenager’s appearance on her father’s Facebook page, that’s what I call trashy now,” he told me. the end of his stern video.
And while Facebook users didn’t support him, TikTok users flooded the dad’s comments section with praise, thanking him for being such an “amazing” parent.
And while Facebook users didn’t support him, TikTok users flooded the dad’s comments section with praise, thanking him for being such an “amazing” parent.
One user said, ‘This! I wish everyone could have this mentality.”
Another user wrote: ‘Thank you! You are a great father raising great strong girls… it’s hard for us women here.”
“Your girls are beautiful and it’s homecoming, this is a normal homecoming dress, I don’t see the problem and I agree 100 percent that you are a great dad,” added one user.
‘Yes! I have raised three daughters and feel exactly the same. They are not responsible for a man’s thoughts,” one user wrote.
Another person commented, “Boy, mother here, it’s my job to teach my son to respect women.”
Austin was so grateful to his TikTok followers that he even shared another video thanking them for making him feel “better.”
He said, “I just wanted to thank you for doing something I never thought the internet could do, which makes me feel better.”