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Women Wearing Leggings are 'Crossing All Limits': Tamil Magazine Kumudam Lands in Trouble

CHENNAI: A cover story in a Tamil bi-weekly on the

 women’s wear, leggings, allegedly portraying those who

 sport it in a bad light, has kicked off a storm, more so in the

 virtual world, with many charging that the article 

amounted to moral policing.

There is even an online petition, asking the magazine to

 apologise for the article.

The latest issue of popular Tamil periodical Magazine

 Reporter ran the story on women wearing leggings,

 terming it ‘crossing the limits’ of acceptable dress code. It

 was accompanied by several photographs of women on the

 road and riding pillion, all cropped suggestively to further

 drive in the message that leggings were provocative. Soon

 after the weekly hit the news stands, a controversy erupted

 over the moralistic tone of the article, with scores especially

 the youth — but not restricted to women alone — coming

 out with scathing criticisms. The article was variously

 described as misogynistic and regressive, and the magazine was asked to apologise for running it.

DMK member Kanimozhi came out with a statement

 alleging that to be “moral policing masquerading as

 journalism. It is a classic case of objectification of women.”

 The activistic site Change.org has a petition addressed to

 the management of the periodical that has already received 

nearly 2,500 petitions within just a few hours.