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Yes it is. - Per the guide-lines : "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports " - Per usage
> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. That seems to apply here.
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I wonder if something was lost in translation, if that read " it strips away the illusion" then the component of pretending in this type of play makes sense. I guess much in the same sense that people would probably not be amused if you ran around a Comic Con telling everyone this is just make believe.
> I guess much in the same sense that people would probably not be amused if you ran around a Comic Con telling everyone this is just make believe. And yet, this is what an outsider would think (as someone who does not go but has friends who do). Some people would call tinkering with computers "playing", though my spending years on it resulted in a career path. I don't see the issue with "playing". At some point, if…
Sometimes I wonder if I'm just getting old and no longer get things, or if the world is just getting crazier.
At first, I even had trouble with the act alone, but I do remember doing silly things as a kid because they were fun, so that's understandable, even if they look silly doing it. I certainly looked silly a lot as a kid.
Then, my issue was that there are apparently whole competitions as if this were a real sport. But then I realized that there's no reason it can't be. We have all kinds of sports that require things that ultimately look like dancing... And that's basically what this is, in the end. Dancing with certain other rules.
I also stopped and considered it compared to LARPing. I mean, they're play-acting a scenario and using actual physical skills and routines. It's actually probably a lot more educational than a lot of things they could be playing instead.
But in the end, I'm getting old and new things are making me feel uneasy increasingly more often.
So as an occasional (male) rider of real horses, there's something I've always wondered about: how did the recreation become so gendered? Up until about the middle of the 20th century there was still utilitarian and military horse riding. Men would learn to ride. Now it seems to be culturally associated almost entirely with young upper-middle-class girls or middle-aged women. Is this the result of toy marketing (My L…
So as an occasional (male) rider of real horses, there's something I've always wondered about: how did the recreation become so gendered? Up until about the middle of the 20th century there was still utilitarian and military horse riding. Men would learn to ride. Now it seems to be culturally associated almost entirely with young upper-middle-class girls or middle-aged women. Is this the result of toy marketing (My L…
My facile observation for the day: I think horse riding is less enjoyable for men due to differences of anatomy.
So as an occasional (male) rider of real horses, there's something I've always wondered about: how did the recreation become so gendered? Up until about the middle of the 20th century there was still utilitarian and military horse riding. Men would learn to ride. Now it seems to be culturally associated almost entirely with young upper-middle-class girls or middle-aged women. Is this the result of toy marketing (My L…
That said, the girls are very good.
So as an occasional (male) rider of real horses, there's something I've always wondered about: how did the recreation become so gendered? Up until about the middle of the 20th century there was still utilitarian and military horse riding. Men would learn to ride. Now it seems to be culturally associated almost entirely with young upper-middle-class girls or middle-aged women. Is this the result of toy marketing (My L…
My facile observation for the day: I think horse riding is less enjoyable for men due to differences of anatomy.