Like a weekend visit from your one super-cool aunt who gives the best birthday gifts and makes your dad slightly uncomfortalbe, JC’s blog posts are few and far between, but each one is an event to celebrate. This time around he discusses the plunging hemlines on men’s shorts and the true reasons behind the epidemic:

Several years ago in a couture issue of Peter Cummings’ celebrated XY Magazine, one writer suggested that this baggy shorts trend had outlived traditional fashion cycles because of homophobia and straight men’s unease over the rising glorification and exploitation of the male form in fashion advertisements.

Men had gotten more self-conscious about showing a little leg, he argued, and until they got over it, they would continue covering their bodies in subconscious shame.

Follow the link for his entire essay (Let’s Get Critical.  Critical.)