That's why I love spandex. I commute in the hottest and most humid conditions known to man. At least I think they are. So I wear bike shorts.

I had several people in the office who genuinely had a hard time with my spandex... and it was invariably the fat lard-a**es who gave me a hard time. So I believe that you're correct... my rock hard butt in spandex reminds them that they are too lazy or timid to put in the time to earn their spandex.

Then a single event ended all of the derogatory comments:

I used to fight back by offering to sell butt squeezes for 25 cents each. Then one morning I found myself fielding insults from a glorious rotund coworker who decided to tell me how much she disapproved of my indecent shorts. So for the benefit of the folks who had gathered to look on, I told her that I was willing to let the ladies feel my booty for a quarter a squeeze. Just about that time the office hottie (every office has one)... easily 25 years my junior... stepped up and said "I'll take $5 worth of that action" and she laid a 5 dollar bill in my palm. Then she smacked my butt and swished away down the hallway.

I've never had another single rude coworker comment about my spandex. Not one.