I know you don’t mean this cruelly but maybe after the long day I had....I just have to respond. And understand I don’t mean this cruelly either.

I am not buying expensive yoga pants. But do I own some amazingly cute and comfy old navy ones? Oh hell yes. And guess what? I’m the woman you find in the school office who…

Bonus: my 4 year old thinks I look like a superhero.

Well aren’t you cool.

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Appearance-based generalizations are fine, as long as they’re about people we’ve decided we don’t like!

Yes, exactly. We’ve come full circle. The objection is to you saying things like:

Right. And the article is about athleisure. Not annoying clique moms. Not to put too fine a point on it, but generalizing “athleisure” to mean “cliquey shallow grown-up Mean Girls” is pretty offensive for reasons I don’t think I should have to explain.

“Type of woman” based on what...an ocular pat down? Are we really going there?

So all moms picking up their kids in what you consider to be athleisure-based looks are all chatty volunteers who exclude people? Is it the pants that cause the cliques? This phenomenon didn’t exist before the athleisure trend?

No one gets worked up about whatever uniform techbros are wearing nowadays, or frets that middle-aged male scientists are wearing khakis and polo shirts every day, so I refuse to get worked up about women wearing yoga pants arond town.

Jan...don’t double down on this. I get it, we all know about the “cool moms” - but let’s not make this about yoga pants. If they all showed up in miniskirts and heels we’d have the same snarky comments and the “cool moms” would be just as obnoxious.

I don’t know a single mom, working or SAH, who “chose” her situation as though from a menu. It feels like it’s always a compromise of sorts, an “arrangement” more than an actual lifestyle. Even the handful of very wealthy people I know struggle with it because something it’s good to remember about rich person culture…

Yeah, these comments read as hilariously judgmental, considering they are in the same sentence accusing the “athliesure moms” as thinking they are better than others.

Jan, I honestly think you might be projecting a bit here. Hell, I like to put together super-profesh business outfits even when I’m working from a coffee shop, bc it makes me feel like a get-shit-done boss lady. Those same yoga moms could easily see me picking up my kid and have the same “ugh…

As if they are attempting to justify not working with an impression of perpetual exercise.

This feels like maybe an eensy weensy bit of projecting. Like maybe they dress that way because it makes them feel good or it’s easiest or they are simply conformist about clothing. And maybe they spent a lot of money or maybe they didn’t. Maybe they spend a lot on leggings but not on other things. Maybe they wish…

I’m getting tired of the athleisure mom shaming. Honestly, it’s exhausting. What, exactly, is it ok for moms to wear? Please tell me. I spend all day crawling around on the floor, sweating, wrestling the baby into the stroller for walks, whatever. And I’m sorry that actually the easiest thing to wear for these…

I’m a stay at home mom and I’ll tell you why I wear workout clothes every day.

Maybe because its the most functional thing for their life? I am training for half marathons and I often go and do errands and such in my running clothes before my run. I do this both to save time and because its freaking comfortable. In the morning when I drop off my son, I am in my running clothes because as soon as…

Because it’s comfortable as hell, easy to clean, and you don’t have to stress about putting yourself together while trying to manage all your kids’ crap and run errands or clean. I am a SAHM. While I do try to work out 3-4 times a week, I often wear the same clothes when I don’t simply because it makes more sense for…