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Here's a story we can only talk about on the podcast.

It's out of Notre Dame University and,

or University of Notre Dame. And the headline is mom protest leggings in letter to Notre Dame

student paper. She wrote an open letter to the college newspaper to share her concerns. So I'll read

you some of this article here. It says, the article itself is

really interesting to me. It says, what's the matter with leggings? That's what a group of student

protesters are asking after a mom condemned leggings in an open letter to their college

newspaper. The mom, identified as Marianne, such and such, wrote a letter to the editor of the

observer, a student-run publication that

serves the University of Notre Dame. In the letter, she argued that women and girls should not

wear leggings because they're immodest and can attract unwanted male attention. She says, quote,

I'm not trying to insult anyone or infringe upon anyone's rights. I'm just a Catholic mother

of four sons with a problem that only

girls can solve leggings. She recalled attending church one day last year and seeing a group of

young women wearing snug fitting leggings and short tops. She said, I'm ashamed. I was ashamed for those

young women at Mass. I thought of all the other men around us who couldn't help but notice them.

I didn't want to see them, but they were unavoidable.

How much more difficult for young guys to ignore them, she said.

She implored young women to stop wearing tight-fitting leggings for the safe of their own safety and self-respect.

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