When you’re the athletic director at a high school, it can’t possibly be a good sign when there’s a news story about you that name-checks Harvey Weinstein, Charlie Rose, Bill Cosby, and Brett Kavanaugh.
But that’s the situation in Tennessee, after Soddy-Daisy High School Athletic Director and Assistant Principal Jared Hensley made a video for students explaining the school’s ban on athletic shorts, a restriction he blamed on women. Because, after all, they “ruin everything.”
Few things to address. I don’t think anything’s going on the rest of the week sports-wise, other than some practice and hoping to stay dry, but we need to make sure: athletic shorts. And I know, boys, you’re thinking, you know, “I don’t understand why. It’s not fair. Athletic shorts go past your knees.”
I didn’t make the rules. Well, I kind of did. But that’s the rules. So this is what we’re going to stick to. And that doesn’t mean that you can wear athletic shorts.
So everybody who’s going, “Well, I got a detention for athletic shorts,” that’s what you’re gonna get, and if you don’t serve it, you’re gonna go to Saturday school. So just don’t wear ’em. And if you really want someone to blame, blame the girls. Because they pretty much ruin everything. They ruined the dress code. They ruin… well, ask Adam. Look at Eve. That’s really all you really gotta get to, Okay? You can really go back to the beginning of time. So, it’ll be like that the rest of your life. Get used to it. Just keep your mouth shut. Suck it up. Follow the rules.
