Opinion: The Notre Dame mom’s 'no leggings' plea may be the world’s most quixotic cause
By David Von Drehle David Von Drehle Columnist focusing on national affairs and politics Email Bio Follow Columnist March 29 at 3:48 PM Some people have a knack for seeing quickly to the heart of a matter, and my youngest daughter, I’m learning, is one of them. Because of her interest in fashion, I told her recently about the self-described mom of four sons who sent a letter to the Notre Dame student newspaper.
But this mom is not the only American worried about the impact of stretchy yoga togs on impressionable male minds. School districts from Cape Cod, Mass., to Kenosha, Wis., to Alameda, Calif., have considered banning the form-fitting pants in hopes of keeping male students focused on matters of the intellect. Of all the world’s hopeless causes, however, this may be the most quixotic.The mortifying mom from Notre Dame makes one giant mistake in her logic.
Nature has its imperatives; it works just as powerfully through subtle means as through more forthright and confident displays. “Was it her smile?” a character once asked on the philosophically rich television series “Northern Exposure.
Her kindred spirits today are the hundreds of Notre Dame women who cheerfully protested the mom’s letter by posting photos of themselves in their comfy leggings on social media. They rightly recognize that responsibility for male sexual behavior belongs with men. They rightly reject the idea that boys can’t be expected to control themselves in the vicinity of visible girls or that the female body must be cloaked as though it’s a source of shame, or a nuclear secret.
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