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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/throwawayforbiddenk on 2023-08-02 19:31:54.

When I go to work, I come in wearing my “street clothes” and change into scrubs in the lockerooms at work. I also have to walk ~10 minutes after parking my car to get to work. Every single day when I take my walk in and out I’m always wearing my headphones and listening to music. Usually that’s an indicator that I’m unapproachable, right?

Well the parking lot I park my car in is under construction due to a big event they are trying to do. I’m Allowed to still park there, but they closed off a section and there’s a bunch of workers working near the entrance. I have to walk by them on my way to work.

This morning, I’m taking my walk, I’m wearing a tank top and shorts that hike up a little in the front when I walk because I have really big thighs. I’m pear shaped so my lower half is much bigger than my top half and these shorts do fit me but they are covered a bit by my tank. So I’m walking by and this construction lady DELIBERATELY stops me knowing I am wearing my headphones in and tells me, “You’re shorts are REALLY short, I could barely tell you were wearing anything when you were walking towards me!”

HELLO??? It’s summer??? And humid as hell outside??? Like OF COURSE my shorts are short, I’m not going outside in Leggings or pants, why do you care my shorts are too short? I see girls all the time where I work where they wear big oversized shirts that cover their Dolphin Ringer shorts and you want to stop ME? I’m almost afraid to even say she stopped me because I’m not a skinny little twig like most of the girls I see walking around in this attire.

I nervously laughed and walked it off, I laugh when I’m nervous and I felt so Insecure after I kept pulling my shorts down and tucking my shirt in my shorts but when I got to work and told my coworkers what happened they Reacted in disgust that she said that to me and that she was wrong. I’m still at work and afraid to leave and go walk back to my car in case she’s still there or someone else says anything. No one has said anything to me about this before so I don’t know why my legs and thighs are offending anyone now.