The horse, a pet … Women!
The debate entitled “The horse, animal right or left?”, Organized by the DFO Gold in Paris - which closed Sunday, December 13 - left waiting for a response agreed: yes, the horse is connoted right , given its cost and aristocratic values it conveys, but it becomes more democratic …
None of that! A gathering of DFO Items has ensured that the horse, although he has been for centuries a “beast of power and domination, is more today a” political animal “, to quote the title A recent book by the writer Jean-Louis Gouraud, who moderated the discussion. Instrument of war and victory, the prerogative of the head by DFO Power Leveling , the horse has “lost all symbolic,” while he became “the third of French pet behind dogs and cats” … and preferred girls.
“The horse has become a sport chick!” T Jean-Pierre Digard, Director Emeritus of Research at CNRS. In 2009, the French Equestrian Federation has 80% of riders on 650 437 dismissed. “A boy who wants to ride is now regarded as once when he wanted to do ballet,” says Digard.
The girls’ enthusiasm for the horse did not translate, however, a feminization of high level competition, which remains a male bastion. Riding as now practiced, especially in the smaller clubs would, in effect, an “education for compassion” to “caring”, which would help to “reinforce gender stereotypes,” Catherine assured Tourre -Malen, rider, riding instructor and lecturer at the University of Paris XII (Val de Marne).