Why Yoga Pants Are Bad for Women
- 6 years ago
Why Yoga Pants Are Bad for Women
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.
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.
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
“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.”
I have yoga pants — three pairs.
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.
We felt we had to look hot on dates — a given.
We felt we had to look hot at the office — problematic.
Nor will — and this is a real thing — the push-up sports bra.
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.
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.
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
“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.”
I have yoga pants — three pairs.
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.
We felt we had to look hot on dates — a given.
We felt we had to look hot at the office — problematic.
Nor will — and this is a real thing — the push-up sports bra.