Made fun of for liking horses?

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I know most of you being adults probably don't but when you were younger were you ever made fun of for liking horses? Or do you know of any children or even your own children that do? Well I do and I'm starting yo wonder what people's problems are with horses? It's quite upsetting :/
 
C.C.T said:
I know most of you being adults probably don't but when you were younger were you ever made fun of for liking horses? Or do you know of any children or even your own children that do? Well I do and I'm starting yo wonder what people's problems are with horses? It's quite upsetting :/
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Could it be your Parelli signature, I wonder?
I have a hard time not laughing at Parelli myself.
And I like horses. :D
S :D
 
Shilasdair said:
The beauty of school is that it gives you a benchmark for 'stupid' for later life.
No matter how long you live after leaving school, you will never again meet the same range and depth of 'stupid', that you have at school.
Think of it as an education...
S :D
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Lol there is difenately a lot of stupid in my school...can't wait to leave
 
elliegirl12 said:
I had it all the way through school! Most of it is jelousy! But let them get on with it! You will see them in 4years time and be laughing at them!
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I suppose seens as most of them are wasting their lives smoking and drinking! Well i would rather spend my weekends riding my horses then getting into trouble with the police for doings drugs and stuff!
 
Tazhazzamoose said:
Nah, my issue is with guys who when i say "going riding", meet me with the response of "OI OI."
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Totally this XD Atleast in the later years of school.
I was called horse-girl a lot, but I don't care :) I have a wonderful thing in my life and if they never know the thrill of riding a horse, then they will never have lived!
 
Shilasdair said:
The beauty of school is that it gives you a benchmark for 'stupid' for later life.
No matter how long you live after leaving school, you will never again meet the same range and depth of 'stupid', that you have at school.
Think of it as an education...
S :D
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Do you really think that? I constantly meet deeply stupid people within a large range, I left school 40 years ago. :(
 
Annielusian said:
Totally this XD Atleast in the later years of school.
I was called horse-girl a lot, but I don't care :) I have a wonderful thing in my life and if they never know the thrill of riding a horse, then they will never have lived!
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I agree! Riding is one of the most amazing experiences ever :)
 
I know what you mean! I had it at school too. I know it's hard but try and blank it out. In a few years when all the 'hot, in girls' are up the duff, fat or druggies you have them knocking at your door!

I spent a lot of time at school challening the boys to arm wressel, and winning. That shut them up pretty fast. Lol, weakings!

That's what you get for moving 6000 hay bales all summer. Let alone the straw.
 
My friends at school were not keen on horses. I did not ever follow the coventional path, so it did not bother me.

Once you leave school join an adult riding club, hunt club or whatever, and you will make heaps of friends with similar interests. My boys are teenagers and they do not tell everyone they ride, some of their closest friends know, but they mostly keep that part seperate from their other lives.

While you are at school it is your whole life, but once you leave it is a vague memory so don't let it worry you too much.
 
My friends son was teased badly at school until 'pets day' when he brought in his pony 'Nikki'.
The teasing stopped after that - he allowed a couple of the worst bullies to have a ride, they then realised that riding wasn't quite as easy as they thought and admired him for his skills.

He carried on riding through all his school years and several years into his working years too.
 
I can recall (through a haze) that at my school there were quite a few people with horses so it didn't matter... what mattered was WHAT pony you had and HOW MANY!! :D

Connies were pony-du-jour in my day. If you didn't have a connie, you were common.
 
Put up with it and do not let it effect you.
It seems to me that families nowadays do little teasing and when children do get teased at school then it has a great effect.

Yes, I was known as 'Horsey' but I answered to it just as others do to a nickname. I never let it bother me and because it had no effect they soon stopped.
 
My friends son ended up moving schools because he got bullied for having horses. He went to that school as it had an equestrian team and my friend tought it would be better than the oter school in the area. He was called "horse shagger" and a poof.

Since he moved school (this on also as an equestrian team) he has gone in "fighting" and says to the boys "who gets all the girls" and also invites them up for a shot if they think riding is for poofs and once they get there and realise how hard it is he shows off by jumping huge jumps. Its def improved for him since doing that.

I was never made fun of for liking horses but lots of people had horses at school and you were admired for having them.
 
To this day I am still teased about horses and I'm 20! Luckily I don't let it get to me.
I used to be friends with a lot of people and we were all a very close group of friends but since I've got my horse I don't have the time or money to go out (which doesn't bother me) but I get called posh cow, rich b***h etc etc - which I really am not!!!
At school people used to pick on me simply cause I would spend my evenings up the yard instead of getting drunk on a street corner! - some people are so pathetic.
 
I think its hilarious that guys think horses are "girly" or guys that ride are "gay/poofs"
When it used to be only men pretty much riding in history and horses where the "flash cars" transport of the day.
I just think Aragorn from LOTR♥ or the wildwest ha def nothing pansy about that, but hey ignorant people will forever be stupid.
 
Annielusian said:
Totally this XD Atleast in the later years of school.
I was called horse-girl a lot, but I don't care :) I have a wonderful thing in my life and if they never know the thrill of riding a horse, then they will never have lived!
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lmao! No one ever called me a name directly to do with liking horses...think due to my rep they were worried i'd smack em :p
 
I had teasing all through school, some of it was quite nasty and upsetting. I think a lot of it is jealousy and one particular boy who did tease me ended up going riding with me and loved it! He had no option but to apologise for all the verbal he gave me because from that day on he was hooked on horses!

I don't get it now as I don't ride much anymore but recently I have had to practically halve my Facebook friends list for putting photo's up of me out following the local hunt. Good god the abuse was insane, un-educated idiots (adults I hasten to add) who like to judge without knowing the facts or coming to me first! Can't be dealing with people like that, I have a very short fuse for people that label me as something when they know nothing about it! :rolleyes:
 
Shils I totally agree RE Parelli, however I do agree with the quote...

OP just ignore them, so what if you do something different at least your not a sheep! I was lucky in that I came from a rural area so lots of people rode at my school.
 
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