No Sweatpants» Sweatpants http://www.nosweatpants.com Issues concerning all the big, overweight, heavy, large, plus-size, giant, tall, fat people of the world! Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:23:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Why NoSweatpants? http://www.nosweatpants.com/2008/07/25/why-nosweatpants/ http://www.nosweatpants.com/2008/07/25/why-nosweatpants/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:20:47 +0000 admin http://nosweatpants.com/2008/07/25/why-nosweatpants/ SweatpantsWell, let me get this set straight right off the bat – I have nothing against Sweatpants!
I mean they are comfortable, cheap, and come is all types of colors.  If you come over to my place on a cold winter night you might even find me wearing some!

Here’s my beef with sweatpants.  They are just so sterotypical.  It’s like the default outfit for a fat person.  If there is even a thought process, I imagine it goes something like this… “Crap, I need to go out! – Well, if I’m going to make the effort to leave the house, I should at least be comfortable – It doesn’t matter what I look like”  But this is a mistake! (one that even I am guilty of) It just feeds the whole “fat people are slobs” mentality.

 

 

Here is a great quote from a Yahoo answers board recently…

Question: Jogging in Sweatpants?

Is it alright for me to go jogging in sweat pants and a tee shirt over the
summer, or would that be bad for my health. I don’t want to embarrass
my self wearing the wrong gear.

Answer:  If anything, I think sweat pants have been taken over by fat people. Just go with a nice pair of basketball shorts. 

To be clear, I’m not saying that fat people should boycott sweatpants, but instead we should be aware that there are numerous stereotypes out there.  I have just picked this one to name the blog after because I think it’s so prevalent in our world today!

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