offended to be called horsey

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sorry not sure if there is already a thread on this, but I have just come across the weirdest article ever!

http://www.derbyhouse.co.uk/blog/post/2015/04/01/dont-call-horsey/

apparently this lady, who used to work for horse & hound, and has owned her own horse, is very offended if anyone calls her 'horsey', as this means she is a smelly, mad, dirty women who has large thighs and no career or social life what so ever. to defend herself she states she takes her jodhpurs off as soon as she has finished riding- before un-tacking her horse!! (???)

the thing that has miffed me is that this is posted on the derby house website- surely their main consumer is horsey people?!
 
Crikey, as a child of a single parent family, from central London, loving horses but having almost zero contact, I would have LOVED to be referred to as "horsey".

Now I have worked with them, owned them, trained them, competed them, taught with them... now I am happy to have a break and look at new things. Maybe be a bit less horse driven all of the time. But, ashamed to be "horsey"? No, never.

A strange article indeed, for an equestrian retailer.
 
Ha ha but in reply to the OP, I'd only be offended to be called horsey is I didn't own a horse as I would assume they were referring to my teeth, long face and laugh, as it is I just assume they are talking about my hobby!
 
didnt take any notice of the date.. oops.. but derby house posted it on their facebook page today which was when i found it?!
 
Like other posters I was a 'horsey' but horseless child. Only as an adult did I achieve horse ownership and now I revel in it; I am the epitome of 'horsey' and I wear my jods, straw adorned hair, mucky boots and Eau De Equine with unadulterated pride everywhere I go!
 
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Haha! To be honest I think most of us are proud to be smelling like the arse of a horse, covered in hay and looking like we have been dragged through a hedge! That's why we wait to go the shops AFTER we have been to the horse!

- Just means that when we make an effort to look half decent we look AMAZING... Because people are that used to us looking like muckheap monsters!!
 
If she doesn't want to be associated with horses then why bother? I'm very proud to be horsey!
 
This means she is a smelly, mad, dirty women who has large thighs and no career or social life what so ever..."

Hey, I resemble that remark!
 
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