Why Yoga Pants Are Bad for Women<br />They exist for two activities: lounging and exercising — two activities<br />that you used to be able to do without looking like a model in a P90X infomercial.<br />According to the Association of Fitness Studios, Americans spent around $24 billion on studio fees in 2015, or<br />about $4 billion more than they spent on traditional gyms — and that spread has only increased since then.<br />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<br />“Finally,” these women must have thought, “pants that properly ventilate my outer calves<br />without letting a single molecule of air reach anywhere else below my belly button.”<br />I have yoga pants — three pairs.<br />Women who criticize other women for dressing hot are seen as criticizing women themselves —<br />a sad conflation if you think about it, rooted in the idea that who we are is how we look.<br />We felt we had to look hot on dates — a given.<br />We felt we had to look hot at the office — problematic.<br />Nor will — and this is a real thing — the push-up sports bra.
