Dad Shuts Down Adults Criticizing His Daughters’ Homecoming Dresses

The Florida news anchor took to TikTok to address other people commenting on his daughters

Matt Austin just wanted to share a photo of his two daughters dressed to the nines before heading off to Homecoming. The dad of two and a Florida news anchor posted a picture standing with his teens, captioning the image, “My daughters look a little too good on homecoming night. Believe it or not, they’re even more beautiful on the inside.” But apparently, viewers didn’t care about his kids inside beauty, they were too caught up in what the girls were wearing.

To date, there are 470 comments about the photo and while many are encouraging, plenty are landblasting.

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“These outfits these girls are wearing are exactly what call girls wear,” and “Sorry my daughters would never leave the house looking for sale” are just a few of the negative Nancy comments people felt entitled to leave on a post about someone else’s kids. But Austin wasn’t going to let it slide.

In a now-viral TikTok, the anchor lays into commenters. “Let’s get something clear: It’s not my daughter’s job to make sure your son is focused in school,” he says. “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.”

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Austin admits the dresses his daughters chose weren’t what he would pick, but that’s not the point. He goes on to detail how he doesn’t dictate what his kids wear because he doesn’t want them to hate him for arbitrary rules, start lying to him to get around said rules and one very important other reason: because they would think “that it’s OK for a man to tell them what to wear because they look too good. And that ain’t happening, Karen.”

Any of those things happening would be disappointing for a parent, but Austin closes out his video with the ultimate would-be letdown. “You know what would really disappoint me? If my girls grow up to be the type 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.”