![]() One of the most popular jokes about horse girls is that they love to go on long rants about how difficult their sport is. If you’re not filthy rich, you do pretty much have to either figure out how to make a living off of riding or funnell all your money into taking care of your horse. Also, as the memes will tell you, it’s an incredibly expensive hobby. If you want to compete, to lease a horse, or to work with a project horse and actually make progress, you need to ride more than once a week. Even if you’re just taking lessons once a week, you usually have to drive a long way to get to the barn and spend a significant amount of your time doing barn chores. Owning and caring for horses is a full-time job. Horseback riding isn’t really something you can do just for fun during your free time. Here are some theories based on personal experience. However, I haven’t answered the question of why so many young girls get sucked into this culture, or the question of why none of them can ever shut up about it. So I’ve gone over the core literary influences on horse girl culture and what this culture looks like today. I never made the connection until I started writing this piece but, yeah, that definitely comes from reading so many horse girl books as a kid. I felt a sense of superiority over the pretty girls at the barn who were super concerned about the positioning of their hands but couldn’t sit through a bucking spree. I actually hated competing in equestrian sports as a kid, and quit pretty early on, but I loved training horses for other people and took a lot of pride in being able to ride the horses no one else liked. Horse girls grow up dreaming of either domesticating a wild horse, reforming an injured or traumatized horse, or generally forming a “special bond” with a horse that trusts them. ![]() I didn’t notice it when I was a kid, but looking back, it’s really easy to see how these types of stories have influenced horse girl culture to the point where the “horse girl” has become a type of person that almost everyone has encountered at some point in their lives. She is, to put it simply, Not Like Other Girls. She’s able to take a badly behaved and barely trained horse and turn it into a champion. She doesn’t need money or high-quality training. What she does have going for her, though, is that she Actually Cares about her horses. Did I mention that she’s pretty and vain? The main character, on the other hand, can barely afford her horse, doesn’t care about her appearance, and isn’t the flashiest rider. She wins all the competitions because her parents can afford to buy her fancy horses and pay for good trainers, but she isn’t a “real” horse girl. This character is almost always incredibly rich, and she always treats her horses badly and/or isn’t actually a good rider. A lot of these stories also feature a sort of “mean girl” character as an antagonist. A really common trope is the horse that can’t be controlled by any human but eventually comes to love and trust the main character. ![]() Most of these books, movies and TV shows feature a wild horse being domesticated by or at least forming a bond with the main character. What I find really interesting about this genre of media is how strong the tropes are. ![]() My dog and my sister-in-laws hair as ✨Stardust✨ #horsegirl #horsegirlvibes #horsegirlcheck #countrylife #comedyvideos ♬ original sound – Jackie Todd ![]()
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