Dad doesn’t like losing the illusion of power. He thinks it’s perfectly fine to threaten someone but is a hypocrite the moment he met with equal force. So they tried gaslighting and getting defensive and blaming the person that they tried to threaten.
Where a skirt, like real man. No one will care about your knees.
Call it a kilt if it makes you feel better. As a person with seven kilts I have no problem correcting people to tell them that’s a skirt if it makes things awkward.