FOX and fathers tell girls how to wear leggings – and it gets creepy

“Wear longer shirts to cover up the lady parts.”

For as long as clothes have been important to girls, their father’s have been trying to tell them what to wear.

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Fox and Friends did a segment with “an esteemed panel of fathers” in response to a viral video about leggings.

The panel was made up of Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson, Fox News legal analyst Arthur Aidala and Fox anchor Julie Banderas’ husband, Andrew Sansone, who all took turns explaining what their own children are allowed to wear.

Surprisingly, Robertson was the most liberal of the bunch when it comes to leggings, saying his daughters wear them, but they pair them with shirts that “cover up the lady parts”.

Host Steve Doocy then proceeded to parade three models in front of the panel, all wearing different outfits featuring leggings.

The first two models didn’t have much of an impact, the first deemed appropriate because “it’s not so tight that you can see a tattoo on her leg” according to Aidala.

The second outfit fit their criteria of acceptable because it covers the models “tail.”

The third model however, turned the whole interview into a creepy mess, when she walked onto the set wearing a typical gym outfit of leggings and a tank top.

“It looks like Paige just came from Pilates,” said Doocy.

“We all took our nitroglycerin pills before she came onto the set - just to make sure,” added Aidala.

Let me get this straight: he’s saying they took pills so they wouldn’t get an erection when she walked out in leggings.

The same guy who at one point asked “What if this was your daughter?”

What if Paige was your daughter, sir? How would you feel if some “esteemed father” made a joke about the boner your daughter would give him on national television?

The hypocrisy and ick factor only got worse from that point on.

While Paige awkwardly tried to do her best to model her leggings, Sansone was basically speechless, barely able to string a sentence together and refusing to look the young woman in the face.

It’s hard to say what Fox and Friends was trying to achieve in this segment, but what it does highlight is the rampant sexism and dominance girls have to deal with everyday. Even from their fathers.