A male reader found that tight fitting pants were the least of his concerns. He woke up to a mass of people picketing his home and throngs chastising him on social media. This happened after he sent a letter to a Rhode Island broadsheet criticizing women who wear yoga pants in public.
Alan Sorrentino, 63, described yoga pants as ridiculous looking, tacky, and stinky in his letter to the Barrington Times. This is a small newspaper claiming a readership of 5,000.
In the letter, which was published on Wednesday, he wrote that yoga pants do nothing to compliment a woman over 20 years old.
Multitudes of netizens made their feelings clear on Twitter and Facebook on Monday when the letter was posted on news sites around the world.
He also asked protesters to stay calm in the interview.
During Sunday’s “Yoga Pants Parade,” several people demonstrated past Sorrentino’s house waving placards that say, “love yourself” and “we wear what we want.”
Protest organizer Jamie Burke, 40, said it had a broader meaning than yoga pants.
Burke said that the protest was not about a group of ladies marching around for their right to wear yoga pants. It was men and women fighting against the policing of women’s bodies and casual sexism.
But Sorrentino looks at the protesters from a different perspective.
Letter was a satire
He told the radio station that the protesters should take a good look at themselves. Moreover, they should do a little self-contemplation, and just calm down and leave people alone. And If they have something to say, then just write it down and not terrorize people in their homes.
Sorrentino claimed the letter was a satire but Burke said she was not amused.
“The tone of the letter was just not funny,” said Burke, whose family accompanied her at the parade.
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