On 8/15/2012 10:14 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 15/08/2012 5:18 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:20:26 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 15/08/2012 3:26 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>> "graham" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> An elderly aunt gave me some good advice many years ago: "Never
>>>>> marry a
>>>>> woman who has horses. The horses will *always* come first!"
>>>>
>>>> Auntie wasn't lying... of course woman-horse love is normal... there's
>>>> good reason for the adage "hung like a horse". heheheh
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> And the male horses that most girls may ride are gelded, so that thing
>>> is little more than an ornament.
>>>
>>>
>>> The horse riding world is a puzzle. When I was a kid there were a lot of
>>> westerns, in the movies and on television. They were ridden almost
>>> exclusively by cowboys and other males, rarely by women.
>>
>> Dale Evans... many of the westerns from the '50s featured females
>> riding horses.
>
> That's...... one.
>
[Crossposting snipped]
Did you ever see The Big Valley? (1960's TV show) Barbara Stanwyck sat
a horse very well I'm sure there are more examples. Still, westerns
(as a genre) were probably more the purvue of male viewers. Cowboys and
Indians Most of the women were saloon gals or the sweet innocent
(heh) schoolmarm.

Jill