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Why Yoga Pants Are Bad for Women [NYT]
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:23 PM Author: Saffron address It’s not good manners for women to tell other women how to dress; https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/opinion/sunday/yoga-pants-sweatpants-women.html There is a link. |
Date: February 18th, 2018 12:23 PM Author: Dull bearded death wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430699) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:24 PM Author: supple tanning salon I'm not clicking that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430706) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:27 PM Author: Cyan kitchen patrolman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430726) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:25 PM Author: spruce nubile windowlicker selfie Copypasta that shit. I’ve been poasting too much this month and hit my ten articles like a week ago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430712) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:26 PM Author: Contagious massive principal's office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430716) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:27 PM Author: Saffron address Click (i) next to the URL and disable JavaScript on this site. Or just open in new incognito window. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430723) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:40 PM Author: spruce nubile windowlicker selfie Used my incognitos too bruh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430815) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:34 PM Author: Kink-friendly rehab people who are hurt paste the link in duckduckgo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430775) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:41 PM Author: spruce nubile windowlicker selfie Figuring out what the hell youre talking about is a lot more effort than :D not being a fag and just doing copypasta. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430831) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:42 PM Author: Saffron address We have to respect IP law to be scholars, bro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430840) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 1:24 PM Author: heady unhinged university Any true scholar knows that IP Laws are flame (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35431071) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:43 PM Author: Cobalt garrison LOW IQ TELL: not being able to get around a nyt paywall (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430844) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 1:06 PM Author: spruce nubile windowlicker selfie I admit I am basically a boomer when it comes to all the full scale NEET megapoaster hacks of your trade, brother. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430989) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 1:14 PM Author: violet vivacious doctorate spot Just delete your browser cookie history, dummy. That's not even a hack, just 3rd grade level understanding of computers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35431026) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 1:25 PM Author: heady unhinged university Modern 3rd grader. And modern 3rd graders are basically Steve Jobs compared to a boomer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35431074) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 1:26 PM Author: Saffron address Barron runs the cyber. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35431079) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:28 PM Author: hyperactive poppy feces Thread useless without a pic of (presumably fat and ugly) author. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430732) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:31 PM Author: Saffron address https://twitter.com/flozha/status/7761385585 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430754) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:32 PM Author: hyperactive poppy feces clear volcano body shape (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430757) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:32 PM Author: amber main people pearchan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430760) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:34 PM Author: tripping sooty rigpig ratface Jfc shrews. Seeing a cute girl in yoga pants basically made me like women again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430773) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:40 PM Author: Dull bearded death wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430820) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 3:38 PM Author: vermilion bateful sound barrier stain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35431921) |
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Date: February 19th, 2018 11:54 AM Author: Cerebral drab dog poop indirect expression (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35436741) |
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Date: February 19th, 2018 12:03 PM Author: mind-boggling house-broken trailer park fat ankles (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35436788) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:38 PM Author: maize box office ape I hate her. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430804) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:40 PM Author: Dull bearded death wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430819) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 12:51 PM Author: scarlet shitlib Women never not mad that the things they do to get Chad’s attention also draw the attention of Melvins. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430895) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 1:05 PM Author: spruce nubile windowlicker selfie It’s as much or more to get Becky’s attention and compete with her/show her she’s not as hot as she thinks she is, especially given her lack of a half marathon finishers ribbon and a my masters. That’s why the melvins are a problem. Melvins are generally too intimidated to approach Becky so they fuck everything up for her. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35430982) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 1:30 PM Author: Ruby Adventurous Pit Pathetic article. So her complaint is it makes women look sexier, and that is a bad thing?
She just sounds jealous and MAF. |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 3:29 PM Author: Vigorous Iridescent Theater Stage She's dead on about the GC-ification of exercise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35431863) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 3:29 PM Author: Cobalt garrison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35431864) |
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Date: February 19th, 2018 9:14 AM Author: Vigorous Iridescent Theater Stage This shows the importance of framing. If this same screed had been posted under a title like " MY Pilates subscription. MY gym makeup. MY $85 lulemon pants" it would have gotten 30 blank bumps (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35435747) |
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Date: February 19th, 2018 12:39 PM Author: 180 foreskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35437005) |
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Date: February 18th, 2018 3:36 PM Author: Stirring really tough guy rigor Lmao
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Date: February 19th, 2018 9:16 AM Author: razzle-dazzle volcanic crater SundayReview Why Yoga Pants Are Bad for Women Sporting Honor Jones
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Credit Eleni Kalorkoti It’s a new year and I’ve got a new gym membership. I went the other morning. It was 8 degrees outside. And every woman in there was wearing skintight, Saran-wrap-thin yoga pants. Many were dressed in the latest fashion — leggings with patterns of translucent mesh cut out of them, like sporty doilies. “Finally,” these women must have thought, “pants that properly ventilate my outer calves without letting a single molecule of air reach anywhere else below my belly button.”
Don’t get me wrong. I have yoga pants — three pairs. But for some reason none of them cover my ankles, and as I said, it was 8 degrees outside. So I wore sweatpants.
I got on the elliptical. A few women gave me funny looks. Maybe they felt sorry for me, or maybe they were concerned that my loose pants were going to get tangled in the machine’s gears. Men didn’t look at me at all.
At this moment of cultural crisis, when the injustices and indignities of female life have suddenly become news, an important question hit me: Whatever happened to sweatpants?
Remember sweatpants? Women used to wear them, not so long ago. You probably still have a pair, in velour or terry cloth, with the name of a college or sports team emblazoned down the leg.
Continue reading the main story RECENT COMMENTS Kelley 15 hours ago YES. YES. YES. I mourn the death of sweatpants. You can't even buy them anymore. Little girls will never know the awesomeness of sweatpants....
George 15 hours ago I don't think the issue is working out in yoga pants (though they likely offer few benefits over shorts). The issue is then trying this...
Jeff Blum 16 hours ago This article and the resulting comments are hilariously "first world".Keep them coming.
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No one looks good in sweatpants. But that’s not the point. They’re basically just towels with waistbands. They exist for two activities: lounging and exercising — two activities that you used to be able to do without looking like a model in a P90X infomercial.
It’s not good manners for women to tell other women how to dress; that’s the job of male fashion photographers. Women who criticize other women for dressing hot are seen as criticizing women themselves — a sad conflation if you think about it, rooted in the idea that who we are is how we look. It’s impossible to have once been a teenage girl and not, at some very deep level, feel that.
But yoga pants make it worse. Seriously, you can’t go into a room of 15 fellow women contorting themselves into ridiculous positions at 7 in the morning without first donning skintight pants? What is it about yoga in particular that seems to require this? Are practitioners really worried that a normal-width pant leg is going to throttle them mid-lotus pose?
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SEE SAMPLE PRIVACY POLICY OPT OUT OR CONTACT US ANYTIME We aren’t wearing these workout clothes because they’re cooler or more comfortable. (You think the selling point of Lululemon’s Reveal Tight Precision pants is really the way their moth-eaten design provides a “much-needed dose of airflow”?) We’re wearing them because they’re sexy.
We felt we had to look hot on dates — a given. We felt we had to look hot at the office — problematic. But now we’ve internalized the idea that we have to look hot at the gym? Give me a break. The gym is one of the few places where we’re supposed to be able to focus on how our bodies feel, not just on how they look. We need to remember that. Sweatpants can help.
Control-top exercise leggings that hold in your stomach won’t help. Nor will — and this is a real thing — the push-up sports bra.
Frankly, I’m annoyed by the whole booming industry around women’s exercise, which is perhaps most evident in the rise of studio classes. According to the Association of Fitness Studios, Americans spent around $24 billion on studio fees in 2015, or about $4 billion more than they spent on traditional gyms — and that spread has only increased since then. Naturally, women are spending the most; they outnumber men in studio classes by more than two to one.
They are paying for classes like SoulCycle (high-intensity stationary biking gets your soul super-toned!) and barre (look like a ballerina without ever having to dance!). And if you’re already spending $30 on a fitness class, why not spend $70 on the shirt to wear to it? In 2016, at what we can only hope was the peak of the market, Americans dropped almost $46 billion on “activewear.”
All of this turns working out from a healthy thing you might do twice a week into a Way of Life, where $120 leggings are more necessity than extravagance. Consider the way that these fancy exercise clothes have spread from the gym to the street, essentially outfitting women for every activity beyond white-collar work. Consider the way the step-counting Fitbit turns every errand into exercise. When yoga pants are the first thing grown women put on every morning, we can’t help absorbing the message that staying fit is our No. 1 purpose in life.
Women can, of course, be fit and liberated. We may be able to conquer the world wearing spandex. But wouldn’t it be easier to do so in pants that don’t threaten to show every dimple and roll in every woman over 30?
Pantsuits had a moment, back in 2016. I think women are ready to give them another chance. And while we’re at it, let’s bring back slacks, too, and corduroys and, why not, even khakis. But the first step is to bring back sweatpants.
Deep-sea divers need skintight polymer pants; so do Olympic speedskaters. The rest of us could use some breathing room. So step into some slouchy pants with me. We don’t have to look quite so good when we’re just trying to look a little better.
Honor Jones is a senior staff editor at Opinion. |
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Date: February 19th, 2018 11:54 AM Author: spruce nubile windowlicker selfie I’m still a tard for not realizing 10 articles was just a fucking cookie. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35436738) |
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Date: February 19th, 2018 11:50 AM Author: Bearded big casino (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3896695&forum_id=2#35436704) |