Seriously?! A pink saddle?!

sidesaddlegirl said:
Yeah, as a kid only had the choice between a red or blue curry comb- always went with the red as it was the "closest" thing to pink!! Now as an adult, I don't give a toss who doesn't like my pink stuff. I wish CO did a pink velvet helmet too. I say splash out while you can! :D
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Harry Hall do pink and grey......;)
 
Purple one isn't a strange shape, just a normal cub saddle for small children. If you sit them behind the handle rather than at the back with longer stirrups they get a nicer shoulder/hip/ heel alignment than they would in a typical saddle. Mainly because the average saddle is too big for a toddler & they end up sat in the wrong place. Still prefer small children either bareback or no stirrups in a cub (or preferably pony pad).
 
littlelegs said:
Purple one isn't a strange shape, just a normal cub saddle for small children. If you sit them behind the handle rather than at the back with longer stirrups they get a nicer shoulder/hip/ heel alignment than they would in a typical saddle. Mainly because the average saddle is too big for a toddler & they end up sat in the wrong place. Still prefer small children either bareback or no stirrups in a cub (or preferably pony pad).
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Ooops didn't see it was a cub saddle :eek:
 
zoelouisem said:
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Here are my daughter loved it!!!
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that bridle is CUTE!! hahah :p
 
i have black tack and mainly because i like to show occasionally and cant afford two sets of tack. but everything else she has is pink
 
I don't object at all to how pink is used for little girls, all the ones I know who have loads of pink have chosen it themselves. My daughter has most of her stuff in pink or purple, & I'm not about to tell her she can't because some silly website thinks its gender defining. It's wrong to force them into being girly if they're not but never met anyone like that.
 
sbloom said:
Not read the whole thread but I do object to pink and how it is used for little girls:

http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/
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Whilst I agree that girls are raised to be hopeless I hardly think we can pin that on a colour. I blame X factor and the WAGS of the world far more than I blame pink. What a gross over simplification of an incredibly complex issue.

Says the girl who hated pink as a child, loves it as an adult, has a career in a male dominated world and despises the female stereotype.
 
sbloom said:
Not read the whole thread but I do object to pink and how it is used for little girls:

http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/
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My youngest daughter loves pink of her own choosing... I have a grand daughter of a similar age who's favourite colour is green and intensely dislikes pink... Younger son's favourite colour has been red since he was knee high to a grasshopper... 20yr old daughter has always had a preference for lilac and it used to be far less available than now...

But yeah, perhaps I, and others with children who genuinely like pink, obviously forced her into some type of stereotyped behaviour...
 
As you can see by the pic i have no problem with my daughter having pink!!! Shes loved it!! She is now growing up and her favourite colour is blue well it was last week, now its purple!!! She has all diffrent colour clothes ect and as long as it matches she wears what she wants on diffrent day!!! Shes her own person.
She no longer has pink tack she outgrew that she does have a pink numnah and joddies ect sometimes shes uses them sometimes shes wears the brown numnah and black joddies. I wouldnt force her to wear pink but again i would not stop her from wearing it.
 
jesstickle said:
Whilst I agree that girls are raised to be hopeless I hardly think we can pin that on a colour. I blame X factor and the WAGS of the world far more than I blame pink. What a gross over simplification of an incredibly complex issue.

Says the girl who hated pink as a child, loves it as an adult, has a career in a male dominated world and despises the female stereotype.
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Agreed... I've got some of the baby hats, matinee jackets, booties etc that my grandmother crocheted for me as a baby some 45+ years ago... The things are overflowing with pink ribbons and rosebuds and I wouldn't have been caught dead wearing pink as a youngster... "Pretty and pink" for girls is hardly anything new...

A stereotypical association was the physics teacher telling me at 13 I couldn't possibly know wire colour coding as a girl... I'd be far more concerned about whether my daughters and sons would be exposed to that sort of gender defining rubbish these days... If my daughter chooses to be a pink addict - that's fine by me... :)
 
pretty and pink for girls is actually relatively new. Its not that long ago girl was a boys colour and blue was for girls.
 
Ladydragon said:
A stereotypical association was the physics teacher telling me at 13 I couldn't possibly know wire colour coding as a girl... I'd be far more concerned about whether my daughters and sons would be exposed to that sort of gender defining rubbish these days... If my daughter chooses to be a pink addict - that's fine by me... :)
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Yikes! You're a (little) bit older than me and I never got that sort of nonsense at school so hoepefully times have changed? I'd have gone of the deep end if I'd been told that as a teenager.

My A level chemistry teacher told me I was a feminist and got a proper telling off by my 17 year old self as I was quite vehement that I was about equal rights for everyone and it was nothing to do with women per se. I still am I suppose. lol. If he'd told me I couldn't wire a plug I can't even begin to imagine what I'd have said :o Teenagers eh?! :D
 
littlelegs said:
I don't object at all to how pink is used for little girls, all the ones I know who have loads of pink have chosen it themselves. My daughter has most of her stuff in pink or purple, & I'm not about to tell her she can't because some silly website thinks its gender defining. It's wrong to force them into being girly if they're not but never met anyone like that.
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Capriole said:
pretty and pink for girls is actually relatively new. Its not that long ago girl was a boys colour and blue was for girls.
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WHY are girls choosing pink "all by themselves"? I think it's worth a look around at how things have changed, and how it is part of a "princessification" of little girls which does NOT give them good role models etc. We are all hugely influenced by all sorts of things around us and it is tragic when girls walking into a toy store are directed to a pink section with toys that promote caring, prettification and general other supposedly feminine attributes...at least as adults we can be a bit more discerning but children should be given better options.

I'm not advocating anyone tells their daughter they can't have stuff in pink just because of gender politics, but I'd LOVE to see all this girly stuff disappear. Until it does, chicken and egg - some girls will want it.
 
sbloom said:
WHY are girls choosing pink "all by themselves"? I think it's worth a look around at how things have changed, and how it is part of a "princessification" of little girls which does NOT give them good role models etc. We are all hugely influenced by all sorts of things around us and it is tragic when girls walking into a toy store are directed to a pink section with toys that promote caring, prettification and general other supposedly feminine attributes...at least as adults we can be a bit more discerning but children should be given better options.

I'm not advocating anyone tells their daughter they can't have stuff in pink just because of gender politics, but I'd LOVE to see all this girly stuff disappear. Until it does, chicken and egg - some girls will want it.
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Do you seriously suggest the situation is worse now than it was? Get away. 50 or 60 years ago it was the expected norm that a woman would get a 'little job' until she married and had children and would then give it all up to stay home and be the full time carer. Unfortunately that stereotype runs much deeper and is much more engrained in society than a bit of pink Mattel in the toy shop.

I don't agree with many of the roll models that are available to little girls (cheryl cole?! Really? :eek:) but I do feel the overall situation is improving rather than declining.
 
sbloom said:
WHY are girls choosing pink "all by themselves"? I think it's worth a look around at how things have changed, and how it is part of a "princessification" of little girls which does NOT give them good role models etc. We are all hugely influenced by all sorts of things around us and it is tragic when girls walking into a toy store are directed to a pink section with toys that promote caring, prettification and general other supposedly feminine attributes...at least as adults we can be a bit more discerning but children should be given better options.

I'm not advocating anyone tells their daughter they can't have stuff in pink just because of gender politics, but I'd LOVE to see all this girly stuff disappear. Until it does, chicken and egg - some girls will want it.
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Not sure why you quoted me to ask this, I was pointing out that until relatively recently pink wasnt a girls colour, in response to another poster :confused:
 
jesstickle said:
Yikes! You're a (little) bit older than me and I never got that sort of nonsense at school so hoepefully times have changed? I'd have gone of the deep end if I'd been told that as a teenager.
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I was very 'girlie and refined'... Just asked him *which* classification he wanted to know given that many properties at the time were still being upgraded to the current coding... Snotty might be another description...lol It was back in the days though when the RAF recruitment chap insisted that females weren't allowed to train as pilots as they were physiologically unable to cope with the G force exerted... *sigh*

Although when the first male midwife in this area qualified he got some stick - mainly from the male partners/husbands... A whole different thread though... :D

sbloom said:
WHY are girls choosing pink "all by themselves"?
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Because they are individuals capable of having and expressing a preference... Or is there some research somewhere that indicates ALL girls suddenly want everything pink? Because if so, I can prove it to be incorrect in my own household...

sbloom said:
... but I'd LOVE to see all this girly stuff disappear. Until it does, chicken and egg - some girls will want it.
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So...we should remove any 'pretty girlie stuff' because some people don't like it and don't believe girls should have access to it and/or are capable of making their own choices... And that's not demeaning or derisive of females in any way :confused:

Ban pink stuff so girls can't choose it... I'm a tad staggared...
 
Fwiw I've never directed my daughter towards any pink stuff in her life and after one Xmas trying to track down a pink toy garage I'd like more available in what are traditionally boys toys.Personally, I dislike pink, barbies, princesses & girly stuff in general so I don't have a clue where my daughter gets it from. But I do remember giving her the choice of several pairs of wellies at 15 months & she wanted the pink. Likewise before she was 2 it was always the pink socks from the multi-pack she wanted on, or the pink hat from a range of them we had. Likewise as a toddler she would carry a pretty bag & wear a pretty pink headband to play in the hay barn & climb stuff. I doubt that before the age of 3, when her liking for pink was already clearly defined she was influenced by the media, & certainly not by me as my tastes are quite the opposite. So maybe its the fact she has a mind & personality all of her own. I certainly hope stuff for little girls continues to be available in pink amongst other colours as it is now, I would hate it to be stopped because of what appears to be political correctness gone mad.
 
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