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Think of the mothers of sons
While attending Mass at the University of Notre Dame last fall, Maryann White saw something that horrified her: leggings.
A group of young women, all clad in clingy Spandex and short tops, were sitting directly in front of her and her family.
"I thought of all the other men around and behind us who couldn't help but see their behinds," the self-described Catholic mother of four sons wrote in a letter to the editorthat was published by the Observer, Notre Dame's student newspaper, on Monday. "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."
Begging female students to "think of the mothers of sons the next time you go shopping and consider choosing jeans instead," White said in her letter, adding that she hopes leggings eventually will go out of style. Maybe, she proposed, Notre Dame women could start a trend by simply choosing not to wear the wildly popular stretchy pants.
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 in South Bend, Ind., indicated that they planned to wear leggings to class this week.
In her letter, titled "The legging problem," White described the pants as "a problem that only girls can solve." She claimed that the depiction of women in movies, video games and music videos made it harder for Catholic mothers to "teach their sons that women are someone's daughters and sisters" and should be treated with respect. Although she acknowledged the main reason college students like to wear leggings — namely, they're extremely comfortable — White went on to imply that it wasn't too different from walking around without any clothes on at all.
"We don't go naked because we respect the other people who must see us," she said, 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."
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