RantCrush Top 5: October 25, 2016

Alan Sorrentino, 63, wrote a letter in a local newspaper last week, in which he states that the popular yoga pants style is a “disturbing” sight, and that it was the “absolute worst thing to ever happen in women’s fashion.” His letter prompted a massive march outside his house in Rhode Island on Sunday.

Here are some excerpts from Sorrentino’s letter in The Barrington Times:

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.

“They do nothing to compliment a women over 20 years old. In fact, the look is bad. Do yourself a favor, grow up and stop wearing them in public,” he added. “I struggle with my own physicality as I age. I don’t want to struggle with yours.”

Organizers of the protest stated: “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.”

HAPPENING NOW: Yoga Pants Parade in Barrington underway to protest a letter a man wrote critiquing women over 20 wearing yoga pants pic.twitter.com/TD4xNDR9Hv

— Jared Pelletier (@NBC10_Jared) October 23, 2016

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