Hundreds of Women March in Yoga Pants After Local Idiot Tells Them Not to Wear Them

Lesson of the day: Do not tell a woman that she can’t wear yoga pants.

One Rhode Island man found this out the hard way this week after he was so passionate about the cause that he wrote a letter to the editor of the East Bay newspaper to shame women over the age of 20 – yes, twenty – for wearing yoga pants in public.

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Barrington resident Alan Sorrentino’s rant was published in the Oct. 19 edition.

Once you read it for yourself, you can see how it didn’t exactly go over well (and why we kind of want to punch him in the face):

“The absolute worst thing to ever happen in women fashion is the recent development of yoga pants as daily wear outside the yoga studio.

Like the mini-skirt, yoga pants can be adorable on children and young women who have the benefit of nature’s blessing of youth. However, on mature, adult women there is something bizarre and disturbing about the appearance they make in public.

Maybe it’s the unforgiving perspective they provide, inappropriate for general consumption, TMI, or the specter of someone coping poorly with their weight or advancing age that makes yoga pants so weird in public.

“To all yoga pant wearers, I struggle with my own physicality as I age. I don’t want to struggle with yours.”

Classy, right?

He may also struggle with warped desires, as a child in yoga pants or a mini skirt seems a lot more inappropriate than a grown woman in the same attire (just sayin’).

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Image: Fox 16

Anyway, when local resident Jamie Burke caught wind of the maddening post, she took it upon herself to make a major point by organizing an entire parade of yoga-pants-clad females.

Yes, an entire freaking parade.

Burke was joined by 400 women, who united in a comfy protest against the small-minded man. The parade was followed by a yoga class. Burke also used the opportunity to fundraise for Sojourner House, a non-profit helping women who have experienced domestic violence.

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Image: Boston.com

“For years, men have been policing our clothes choices, and I thought it was important that women had their say,” Burke told BBC News.

She’s right. Whether we’re being told to cover up or show more skin (or to smile, but that’s another issue altogether), it seems that men seem to have strong opinions about what we wear – it goes far beyond the now-tired yoga pants debate.

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