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so glad it still exists. the point is the continuity itself. pity so few men ride horses anymore, but I can see how that happened, barns are feminine coded spac
by motohagiography 2y ago
so glad it still exists. the point is the continuity itself. pity so few men ride horses anymore, but I can see how that happened, barns are feminine coded spaces now and it'd probably be like getting guys to do zumba. however, places need social fabrics and a way to connect. I live rurally and the closest thing here would be the volunteer firemen groups and masonic lodges in the area. it's important to have a way to share some dignity and recognition that isn't monopolized by the state. sure they can be exclusive, but the point was to make yourself worthy of welcome somewhere.
in my collections I have a ritual book for The Society of the Horseman's Word, which was a quasi-masonic fraternity for horsemen loosely based on one for ploughmen in 19th c. scotland and I thought about a fun reboot for it, but really there's nothing in it that regular masonry doesn't provide and imposing a constraint where guys need to be capable of anything outside their jobs these days (let alone, riding) is too much of a self-handicap. the other problem is do you really want to attract people who need what you're offering?
orgs like these are a social fabric that forms the quality of life we appreciate when we go into small towns and imagine how peaceful living there is. if there is something like it in your area, you should join one, as it's a way of providing stewardship for the places and ways of life people enjoy.
- 082349872349872 2y ago> barns are feminine coded spaces now That all depends upon the barn*, now doesn't it? Eg, I don't recall there being many female rough stock riders. > places need social fabrics and a way to connect Around here we do that with voluntary associations. De Tocqueville mentions them approvingly in Democracy in America (1835), but for some reason this aspect of culture has swapped over the intervening centuries, and I find there are way more here in my corner of the Continent than in the Old Country. > a constraint where guys need to be capable of anything outside their jobs What's even the point of living without an avocation beyond your vocation? * [I'd say over the last several decades I've only had to (mostly teasingly, and each time in a barn chock full of DQs) request that people please not female bond around me 2 or 3 times. And come to think of it, back when I was still single, having a social spot that had the opposite ratio to the one at work was not exactly a bad thing. Has Jilly Cooper ever written any books with a Zumba® setting?]
- motohagiography 2y agoalways seemed like a bit of a stretch to me to call the spectacle of falling off an animal riding per se. we've got ways to back them now, even if they are a bit european, but I admire the grit. :) it's leisure and guys don't do a lot of that because it raises questions about how serious they are when they could be using that time to get ahead in their jobs. pleasure itself is effete and often only acceptable in these relationships if it's ambitious social climbing. most of these activities and organizations are going the way of other institutions, so this horse thief catcher one just sounded really nice.
- 082349872349872 2y agogetting calves to run patterns is also pretty masculine coded (~80% in 2024?); you'll have to tell me if it counts as riding per se? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPZmzAXg-zQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPZmzAXg-zQ
- cafard 2y agoAnybody remember Malcolm Baldridge, Secretary of Commerce in the Reagan Administration? He died when his horse fell on him during a calf-roping contest.
- 082349872349872 2y agoNo; thanks! I had been aware of Earl Warren, however, who once became state governor by winning both D and R primaries, making a general election moot. Lagniappe: https://cfdrodeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TMIL_RODEO_020-copy.jpg https://cfdrodeo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/TMIL_RODEO_0...