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Ocean State of Mind, Vol. 4: The Yoga Pants Parade

In case you don’t live in Barrington, RI and haven’t heard the (now national) news: we’ve got a bit of a situation here. You see, on Wednesday, a local man’s letter to the editor was printed in the Barrington Times with the headline “Please, women, put away the yoga pants.”

You can read the full (hideous, mean-spirited, disrespectful, fashionably unconscious, and borderline misogynistic) article here. But let me just pepper you with some highlights now. “Not since the mini-skirt has there been something worn by so many women who should not have it on in the first place…on mature, adult women there is something bizarre and disturbing about the appearance they make in public…TMI…I struggle with my own physicality as I age. I don’t want to struggle with yours.”

Continue reading on The Huffington Post.

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