How Short Is Too Short for Shorts?

I recently took my 12-year-old daughter to a local sporting goods store to buy shorts she could wear to volleyball practice. What I found would make a Hooters girl blush.

Call me old-fashioned, but a girl’s gym shorts ought to be longer than her underwear. They ought not require a bikini wax. And this was not at the too-cool-for-your-mother mall store. We found these in the aisles of the athletic store.

Title IX was supposed to instill confidence and determination and in our girls. How exactly...