女生穿紧身裤属诱惑行为？美国母亲观点引爆网络 | Leggings are too exposing, US mom says
"Leggings are so naked, so form fitting, so exposing. Could you think of the mothers of sons the next time you go shopping and consider choosing jeans instead?" a Catholic mother wrote.
Maryann White urged female students to stop wearing leggings in a letter to The Observer, a student newspaper serving the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary's and Holy Cross Colleges in the US.
She said young women wearing leggings make it harder for men not to look at their bodies. She said she was ashamed for the women she saw wearing leggings and crop tops at a Catholic Mass she attended.
"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," White wrote.
White also blamed the entertainment and fashion industries for making it hard on Catholic women to teach their sons that women should be respected.
The letter blaming women's clothes for men's sexual behavior inspired students at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana to organize a movement and wear leggings to protest White's views.
Anne Jarrett, a junior majoring in philosophy and gender studies, helped create the protest and a Facebook event called Leggings Pride Day.
"We're protesting our right to not be responsible for men and to not be constantly policed by morals or femininity," Anne Jarrett said in a tweet where she posed with short leggings.
Jarrett, 21, wasn't surprised by White's point of view because she heard similar arguments in catechism classes and in Catholic school while growing up. There's a double standard around modesty, she said.
"The way that [White] used modesty in the letter as sort of like a call to women to do better was the same argument that I had seen a lot," Jarrett said.
Faculty and students from a diverse array of ages, races and genders expressed their support of wearing leggings and posted on social media. People from other parts of the country shared their support as well.
Jarrett was impressed by people's responses to the movement.
"I've been surprised by the amount of support that this has gotten from male and masculine-presenting students," Jarrett said. "My guy friends have sent pictures to me in leggings. People in classes have said, 'Look at all of the guys in my class wearing leggings today.'"
Many people, some of whom tend to shame women and harass them online, were not on board with the leggings protest.
Jarrett received sexually inappropriate comments on Twitter when she posted her pictures with short leggings. But in the end, she didn't want to focus her attention on the negativity.
"College women have most likely been picking out our own clothes for a long time and we are going to continue to do so," Jarrett said.
Meanwhile, another Notre Dame mother, Heather Piccone, questioned whether White's sons had ever taken their shirts off at the beach.
"Women find male chests attractive like men find women's legs attractive," she wrote in a letter.
"By her own definition and logic, any male out playing on a sunny day at the park with his friends should be ashamed of himself, and as a mother she should have properly raised her son not to tempt my daughter with his body."
Source: CNN, MSN
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