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Yoga Pants March!
A man called women in yoga pants ‘disturbing.’ So hundreds wore them to his house.
BARRINGTON, R.I. — The saga began Wednesday with a letter to the editor in a local Rhode Island newspaper criticizing women over 20 who wear yoga pants in public. Quickly, it snowballed into a “Yoga Pants Parade” Sunday afternoon with hundreds of people walking past the letter writer’s house — and a few death threats, according to the author, who said he had only intended satire.
BARRINGTON, R.I. — The saga began Wednesday with a letter to the editor in a local Rhode Island newspaper criticizing women over 20 who wear yoga pants in public. Quickly, it snowballed into a “Yoga Pants Parade” Sunday afternoon with hundreds of people walking past the letter writer’s house — and a few death threats, according to the author, who said he had only intended satire.
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A crowd that included young girls and older women met in front of the Hampden Meadows School about 2 p.m., wearing a colorful array of yoga pants — although, as many attendees stated, the event was about more than just yoga pants.
“I don’t get involved in much in the way of protests and marches and all of that, but this just brought me out because the guy’s letter was offensive,” said Ellen Taylor at the parade, who sported a neon yellow shirt with the words “ ‘MATURE OLDER WOMAN’ in yoga pants” written on it.
“It’s OK if you’re 20 and gorgeous to wear yoga pants, but don’t do it if you’re older and lumpy and bumpy?” she asked.
It was the shaming and the policing of women’s bodies that struck a chord with the attendees, said organizer Jamie Burke, who lives in Barrington and called the parade a “positive response to casual sexism.”
“I don’t get involved in much in the way of protests and marches and all of that, but this just brought me out because the guy’s letter was offensive,” said Ellen Taylor at the parade, who sported a neon yellow shirt with the words “ ‘MATURE OLDER WOMAN’ in yoga pants” written on it.
“It’s OK if you’re 20 and gorgeous to wear yoga pants, but don’t do it if you’re older and lumpy and bumpy?” she asked.
It was the shaming and the policing of women’s bodies that struck a chord with the attendees, said organizer Jamie Burke, who lives in Barrington and called the parade a “positive response to casual sexism.”
Right in my neck of the woods! Love it!
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/10/23/yoga-pants-parade-happens/QmHlXqmxuSBYTJDmvwJnLO/story.html
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Not a good look. But, wear what you like. I'm not sure that some guy writing a letter elevates the problem to a formal protest, but why not? It's not like there are important issues on the table right now...
