Maryann White, who identified herself as the Catholic mother of four sons, described the wildly popular stretchy pants as “a problem that only girls can solve' in a letter to the campus paper.
An overhead view of the campus of the University of Notre Dame is seen on Jan. 1 in South Bend, Ind. By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow March 28 at 5:40 AM While attending mass at the University of Notre Dame last fall, Maryann White saw something that horrified her: Leggings.
Her plea appears to have had the opposite effect: By way of responding to her complaints, more than 1,000 students at the private Catholic university indicated that they planned on showing up to class in their leggings this week. “We don’t go naked because we respect the other people who must see us,” she chastened her readers, adding, “I’m fretting both because of unsavory guys who are looking at you creepily and nice guys who are doing everything to avoid looking at you.”“Join in our legging wearing hedonism!” one student wrote on Facebook, informing the “legging lovers of the Notre Dame community” that Tuesday would be “Love Your Leggings Day” at the university.
— The Observer March 26, 2019 Yet another informal demonstration took place on Wednesday, the Observer reported. Named “The Legging Protest,” it was organized by Kaitlyn Wong, a senior who wrote, in parody of White’s letter, “I’m just a Catholic woman who feels the need for one specific type of pant that provides utmost comfort: leggings.” She asked people of all genders to express their solidarity by wearing their favorite pair of leggings that day.
— Dani Green March 26, 2019 But those views evidently don’t represent the majority of the 12,393 students who attend Notre Dame. Several male students told the Observer that they felt that White’s letter had unfairly maligned men, while others wrote rebuttals of their own, arguing that college students should know how to behave and be capable of treating women with respect regardless of what they’re wearing.
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