MA high school bans yoga pants/leggings

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews/hig ... 01237.html - This is the most ridiculous ban I have ever heard. WHAT IS SO OFFENSIVE ABOUT YOGA PANTS?! While I am a guy and I don't wear them, girls should wear them whenever and wherever the hell they want (provided that it's in the appropriate situation and time).

This is stupid. Having a dress code is alright, but yoga pants? Those are about the only pants I own, unless you count the discreet (they're cotton and mostly unicolored- pajama pants/coolats -pants that go to the shins- that I wear everyday that I don't where a skirt because I find jeans uncomfortable and sweat pants I do not like to where because I feel I look tacky in them (also most of that time they're all fuzzy inside which I HATE).
So I agree with the above comment to sum everything up.

I'll bet the decision gets reversed in the upcoming review. Most yoga pants are not skin tight, and even leggings are usually worn with long sweaters/tunics.

Well, as a non-traditional college student and traditional dirty-old-man, I must say that most of the yoga pants I see are wonderfully skin-tight! The rest are offensively skin-tight as they are worn by girls who are over weight--those are just embarrassing.

Remembering what it was like to be a hormone driven teenage boy, I can say that yoga pants would have been EXTREMELY distracting, so I can understand the reasons behind the ban.

If I had a teenaged daughter, I don't think I would allow her to wear yoga pants in public without another piece of clothing that covered her to, at least, mid-thigh.

What's embarrassing is that this statement was made

Embarrassed by the truth are we?

I've witnessed times where an obese girl walks by wearing yoga pants and leaves people laughing and making nasty remarks in her wake. She humiliates herself day after day because nobody will tell her how she REALLY LOOKS wearing those pants.

Nope... embarrassed that in this day and age, I share several classes (male, aspie, generation) with someone that would make a judgement of people based on their appearance...

The truth is, the people that matter have all kinds of appearances... and funnily enough, fashion choice is not something that Aspies are known for...

I am embarrassed that we live in a culture where one of our kind (aspies) feel it acceptable to comment on another person in derogatory terms... especially since males of the species are (most often) far worse in their fashion acumen.

It's far more embarrassing that you don't realize that commentary like yours embarrasses ALL of us... not the woman in the pants.

Unless she doesn't own a mirror and has neck problems that make it so she can't look down she already knows how she looks in those pants. She may even think she looks good. Comments like that are fatphobic and just because you think she looks bad doesn't mean she or everyone else thinks that.

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Look, at a personal level, I couldn't give a s**t less how this hypothetical girl dresses. I don't find her attractive, but I won't make fun of her either.

HOWEVER it is a fact that most people, especially NTs, do judge people on the basis of appearance (consciously and unconsciously) all the time.

When this hypothetical girl dresses in a way that accentuates her differences, she is inviting discrimination and contempt.

And what's worse, if you check out this thread (click), you will see that most people. aspies included, have no sympathy for unattractive people. I'm not one of them.

Overly tight clothes just look uncomfortable to me.Even thin people can have the dreaded muffin top.But ,if that's what they want to wear,so be it.
It seems odd to ban yoga pants when I bet the cheerleaders get to flounce around in their short skirts.That would be more distracting.

Depending on how stretchy it is clothes that look tight can be very comfortable.

That's possible.But tight jeans with a tight waist band just seems so uncomfortable.But that's just me.Some seem to wear tight jeans with ease,but the idea of something so tight it would give me a camel toe or ride up my behind is way past acceptable in the comfort zone.
When I was about five a relative tried to get me in this pair of little overalls and they felt stiff and seemed to bind in the crotch.There was the meltdown from hell,but they never tried to put those on me again.

I agree tight jeans are uncomfortable. If you get stretch pants in a very stretchy soft fabric they can be really comfortable. I never had yoga pants but I've had stretchy leggings. As far as I know they are the same thing or similar.

I find jeans uncomfortable, tight or not

Sounds to me like the people laughing and making nasty remarks are humiliating her....people need to get over other peoples bodies.

Well if they are going to ban those pants, I guess they have to ban those skinny jeans young people wear as well....only difference with these leggings is they are made out of different material essentially. Or they could just not ban the leggings.