Don’t mess with women’s yoga pants.
An angry letter to a Rhode Island newspaper demanding that older women stop wearing yoga pants prompted hundreds to participate in a parade while clad in the popular workout apparel.
On Sunday, the comfortably attired protesters marched right past the home of Alan Sorrentino, who last week complained about yoga pants in the Barrington Times, saying that women over 20 shouldn’t wear them.
“(O)n mature, adult women there is something bizarre and disturbing about the appearance they make in public,” he wrote. “Maybe it’s the unforgiving perspective they provide, inappropriate for general consumption, TMI, or the spector [sic] of someone coping poorly with their weight or advancing age that makes yoga pants so weird in public.”
Needless to say, local women weren’t happy about being told what they should or shouldn’t wear and arranged Sunday’s Yoga Pants Parade as both a protest and a celebration. When they reached Sorrentino’s home, he had a message for the marchers:
Other neighbors also had messages for the Yoga Pants Parade, like this home:
The marchers said they weren’t engaging in a “hateful protest” against Sorrentino but rather “celebrating our bodies and our right to cover them however we see fit.” Writing on Facebook, the organizers said:
“And while yoga pants seem to be a silly thing to fight for, they are representative of something much bigger ― Misogyny and the history of men policing women’s bodies.”
Here are some more images from the #YogaPantsParade: