Man Tells Women to Stop Wearing Yoga Pants, so Hundreds March to His House in a Yoga Pants Parade
When a local Rhode Island paper published a man's letter to the editor calling women over 20 who wear yoga pants "disturbing," outrage swiftly turned into a community cause. On Sunday, hundreds wearing yoga pants marched in front of the author's home for the "Yoga Pants Parade," championing body positivity and a woman's right to choose comfort.
The letter, which appeared in The Barrington Times last Wednesday was written by 63-year-old Alan Sorrentino. "To all yoga pants wearers, I struggle with my own physicality as I age. I don't want to struggle with yours," he wrote, claiming that seeing women in yoga pants was akin to seeing men in Speedos at the grocery store. Sorrentino, who had a sign that said "FREE SPEECH" in front of his home during the parade, says he intended satire.
Yet, as hundreds of women and girls coming together showed, his body-shaming words were not just a joke. One organizer, Jamie Burke, told The Boston Globe the parade was a "positive response to casual sexism." Meanwhile, the Facebook event clarified that it was not an attack against Sorrentino personally, but rather, "a wonderful group of people celebrating our bodies and our right to cover them however we see fit." Check out the stellar turnout, below:
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