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What I find interesting, along with the number of women who are driving 
trucks, including 18-wheelers, is the number of women who are shoeing 
horses.  Our society is now accepting the fact that women can do things 
previously reserved for men only.  I always did think that boys and men did 
lots more interesting things than women (I was born into the post-Victorian 
era.)  I'm just enormously grateful that I have lived long enough to see our 
society change its view of what women can and should do.  The one particular 
thing I will concede to men is their upper body strength.  While I can 
wrestle a 125# bale of hay, I cannot lift it and place it on top of another 
layer of bales.  Lack of upper body strength causes me to find more creative 
ways to deal with that bale of hay.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Don Huston" <donhuston@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] Suspensory Injuries//Prevented by Riding Lessons
> Careful Don,
>
> They are already riled up over what the investigative reporting in the 
> Chevy ad exposed. You are, however, absolutely correct. Many times the 
> girls in the family will get swimming lessons - while the boys will be 
> thrown in to sink or swim. Many times the girls in the family will get 
> riding lessons - while the boys are thrown in the saddle, the horse 
> slapped on the ass and they hang on or else.
>
> While in college my last two summers I ran the swimming program at a large 
> lake park in Northwest Indiana. I can tell you we could always tell those 
> people that had good swimming lessons and those that didn't and yes there 
> were many more boys that didn't than girls. The girls on a whole were much 
> better swimmers. Thier strokes were much more efficient and they could 
> swim farther with little expense of energy. It would normally take a 
> month's worth of lessons to undo the bad habits and teach people how to 
> swim correctly so they were actually making forward progress rather than 
> thrashing water. I don't want to talk about how many guys we went after in 
> between the shallow water rope and the diving platform - mostly guys who 
> were strong as an ox but were such inefficient swimmers they just couldn't 
> make it 50 meters. Our life guards were told to watch someone as they left 
> the rope area on the first couple of strokes and get the boat ready if it 
> looked like they would not make it. It was so obvious most of the time, we 
> had the boat there to meet them about half way and had them hold on to the 
> boat as we took them back to the rope. Of course most of what we pulled 
> out were guys that didn't get lessons.
>
> The same is true for horse back riding - and it does show up in endurance. 
> You can follow someone and tell pretty quickly. All is not lost my friend. 
> It's not too late. Swallow your pride and go take dressage lessons on your 
> horse. Not only will you ride better and your horse go better and last 
> longer but you'll meet a lot of cool chicks since you'll be the only guy 
> there.
>
> Truman
>
> Looking for a place to hide since the girls are home shoe shopping and are 
> busy putting on their warpaint ;-) .
>
>
> --
>
> "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our 
> humanity."
>
> - Albert Einstein
>
>
>
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