Women protest by wearing leggings after a mother with 4 sons begged them to stop wearing leggings (photos)

There’s been an outrage and people are protesting after a Catholic mother with 4 sons wrote a letter asking women to stop wearing leggings for the sake of their sons.

 

The mother, who was identified as Maryann White, penned the letter titled, “The legging problem,” which was published in The Observer, Notre Dame’s student newspaper (read here).

 

She told women to stop wearing leggings because leggings are “so naked, so form fitting, so exposing.” She asked them to think of “their sons”.

 

 

But a lot of people didn’t appreciate her letter. It had just the opposite effect on students at the Indiana campus.

Conrad Palor, a sophomore at the university, penned a response to White’s letter that was published in The Observer. He titled it, The legging problem: A response.

He wrote: “While White’s comments were likely intended to be innocuous, they contribute to and further the narrative that women need to dress in order to not distract their male peers, which only furthers the sexualization and subsequent subjugation of women’s bodies.”

A fellow Notre Dame mother, Heather Piccone, penned a letter to The Observer, pointing out that “if nakedness is wrong, then this woman’s sons better have been fully clothed at the beach at all times.”

“They better never have played a game of “shirts versus skins” pick-up basketball or football in the park,” she wrote.

To protest the letter, a Leggings Pride Day parade was organized by Irish 4 Reproductive Health, a campus nonprofit group. The group called on people to take part and post pictures of themselves wearing their favorite pair of leggings.

Many students posted pictures of their favorite leggings with the hashtag #LeggingsDayND.

“We wanted … to remind people that leggings are absolutely OK and you’re allowed to dress your body in whatever way you see fit,” Anne Jarrett, 21, a student at Notre Dame, who helped organize the demonstration.

Other women protested by taking to various social media platforms to share photos of themselves wearing leggings.

Anne-Marie tweeted with photos of herself in Nike leggings: “a Catholic mom published an opinion in ND’s newspaper that leggings Lead Men Into Sin so we’re protesting our right to not be responsible for men and to not be constantly policed by morals or femininity #LeggingsDayND”

 

 

Men also took part in the protest by donning leggings.

A male Instagram user wrote: “let’s all try a bit harder to not shame people for what they choose to wear. Fashion is a multi-party activity. Sometimes it’s the observing party who needs a reality check. With love, from China.”

 

 

See some other reactions below.

 

“Think of our sons” – Mom with 4 sons pleads with women to stop wearing leggings

A mother with 4 sons has penned a letter pleading with female students at the University of Notre Dame to stop wearing leggings “and consider choosing jeans instead.”

Maryann White penned the letter titled, “The legging problem,” which was published in The Observer, Notre Dame’s student newspaper.

Maryann, a Catholic mother, started her letter by saying she had been considering writing it for some time after she attended Mass last autumn and saw four young women in front of her “all wearing very snug-fitting leggings and all wearing short-waisted tops.”

“Some of them truly looked as though the leggings had been painted on them,” White wrote.

The mother said her sons “know better than to ogle a woman’s body – certainly when I’m around (and hopefully, also when I’m not).”

“But you couldn’t help but see those blackly naked rear ends,” White said of the women wearing leggings during Mass. “I didn’t want to see them — but they were unavoidable. How much more difficult for young guys to ignore them.”

White concluded her letter saying leggings are “so naked, so form fitting, so exposing.”

“Could you think of the mothers of sons the next time you go shopping and consider choosing jeans instead?” she asked. “Let Notre Dame girls be the first to turn their backs(ides) on leggings.”

But the letter has generated outrage as women pointed out that no one polices men’s morals and their fashion choices, even when they step out topless with snug shorts. The critics of the letter added that the letter furthers the narrative that women need to dress in order to not distract their male peers.

Mel B ‘calls Victoria Beckham a ‘bit of a b***h’ amid Spice Girls reunion

It has been revealed English singer and Spice Girls star, Mel B dropped another bombshell during her candid interview with Piers Morgan, where she revealed had sex with her former bandmate Geri Halliwell.

The 43-year-old reportedly called Victoria Beckham, who was also her former bandmate a ‘b***h’ because she turned down their offer to join the reunion tour.

The Sun claimed that when Piers asked Mel directly about her opinion of Victoria she replied: ‘Bit of a b***h’.

However, she is also believed to have added: ‘I am sad she is not going to be there [on tour]. But she is busy with what she is doing with her fashion line and her family.

‘But I am gutted that she is not going to be with us. But I am still going to hold that candle and hope that she will.’

Insiders told the publication that Mel’s comment will anger Victoria, who has reportedly made it clear she doesn’t want to go on tour.