Student asks boyfriend to buy her some new leggings, things escalate quickly

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Fair warning: if you ask your partner to pick you up some new leggings while he’s out at the shops, there’s a fair chance he’ll get it horribly wrong.

The proof is in the WhatsApp screengrabs.

Taylor-Anne Gallagher is a 22-year-old student based in Ipswich, UK.

On Sunday, she shared some screengrabs of the stream of messages her boyfriend, Tim Goddard, had sent to her after she asked him to pick her up some new leggings at the shops. Read more…

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Forget yoga pants. Criticising other women’s sartorial choices is bad for women.

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You might have spotted that the New York Times has waged war on women’s workout gear. Yoga pants, to be precise. An op-ed published on the NYT Opinion page on Sunday added yoga pants to the ever-burgeoning catalogue of Things That Are Bad For Women™. 

Its author, Honor Jones—a woman—claimed that women only wear this previously uncontroversial garment because “they’re sexy,” and proffered sweatpants as an unobtrusive alternative deserving of a revival. Sexiness isn’t the only problem with yoga pants, by Jones’s estimation. They also, happen to “show every dimple and roll in every woman over 30″—which seemingly makes it harder to “conquer the world” in Jones’ vision of gender politics.  Read more…

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