Woman Begs World to Shield Her 4 Catholic Sons From Legging-Clad Butts

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In other religion news, we are reminded that it's often about control and keeping women in their place...

https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/notre-dame-mother-leggings-maryann-white-letter.html

In a letter to the editor published in the University of Notre Dame’s student newspaper, The Observer, this week, one mother pleaded for the women of the world, and of the Notre Dame campus more specifically, to please, please, wear looser pants. “I’m just a Catholic mother of four sons with a problem that only girls can solve,” Maryann White wrote. “Leggings.”

White’s four boys were recently exposed to the troubling image of clothed female butts during Mass at the Basilica on the Notre Dame campus, she explained. A group of young women — three? sixty? who’s to say — “all clad in clingy Spandex and short tops” sat in front of White and her brood, and some of them, “truly looked as though the leggings had been painted on them.” [*sign of the cross*]

I was ashamed for the young women at Mass. I thought of all the other men around and behind us who couldn’t help but see their behinds. My sons know better than to ogle a woman’s body — certainly when I’m around (and hopefully, also when I’m not). They didn’t stare, and they didn’t comment afterwards. But you couldn’t help but see those blackly naked rear ends. I didn’t want to see them — but they were unavoidable. How much more difficult for young guys to ignore them.

...The letter, predictably, prompted a wave of backlash. The Notre Dame student group Irish 4 Reproductive Health organized a Leggings Pride Day, writing on the event’s Facebook page that “while well-intentioned, White’s viewpoint perpetuates a narrative central to to rape culture in implying that womxn and girls are responsible for the actions and reactions of others.”