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| That is what I am saying just because we are heavier don't mean we have animosity toward skinny riders and it sure don't mean we aren't healthy. The post wasn't even about that but it didn't take long for someone to try and make it something it wasn't.
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^ Its the fact that you have to say "skinny" and "thin"
Skinny and thin aren't positive. Being "fit" is healthy. Being skinny, thin, fat, obese are NOT. You can be "plus sized" and still be healthy. But there is a difference between a fit curvey person and an obese person. Same as there is a difference between being a fit toned person and a skinny person.
My best friend and business partner is plus sized and is called "fat" at times. BUT she is in better shape than I am, and I am often called "skinny". I consider myself and her fit and healthy. No need to attach labels. She is healthy for her size and height and I am as well. She does more physical work in a day than I do and probably has better balance on a horse than most "skinny" girls. She can sit a trot and canter on the bounciest of drafts and friesians like it is no one's business.
So bottom line. You don't like being called "fat" unwarranted, so don't call us healthy people "skinny". If you are healthy, you are healthy. If you have health problems associated from your weight (be it light or heavy), that is unhealthy.
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| The fact is I didn't say skinny it was Mackenburg. I was commenting on that post. I said thinner meaning not a size 14 which I am. I do have health problems and they are hereditary but I don't let it slow me down. I am healthy but because of these problems I am not as healthy as 100%. It has nothing to do with my size and there is no cure. I don't think anyone that started this posted called anyone skinny just the people that said that we that were plus size show animosity. I am glad people are active and healthy but putting anyone down for their size or build is just prejudice.
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[quote]barrel_chaser (10/26/2009)
Heck yes! I'm plus sized, and one of the only ones I know of, but I am a dang good rider! I really gained a self confidence boostthis summer. I've been training my mare Ginger, a 15yr-bay-QH, for a few years. Now that may seem like a long time, and it did to me as well, but it all paid off! She and I outrode the skinny girl who won all the high school rodeos in gaming events, and outrode all the cowboys at branding when the cows got past Duane ( ) and I saved the day by cutting em off with my mare, and herded em back over to the boys...hehee (loved it!)! I don't have a pic of me and ginger on my laptop.
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I think Mack was referring to this. Labeling someone "the skinny girl" is a bit vindictive.
Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born. ~Garrett Hardin
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Ok my mistake!  For some reason I failed to see this. Sorry I just thought someone thought I was against thinner riders. I see why he made that comment now!
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I like being called skinny 
I don't know anyone that would take offense to being called skinny, actually. I fail to see the offensiveness in that. Just saying.
 
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^People can feel just as insecure about their bodies if they feel they are too thin. 'Normal' people can have a hard time understand, but it does happen. It's just as ignorant to be insensitive to them.
Society does not need more children; but it does need more loved children. Quite literally, we cannot afford unloved children - but we pay heavily for them every day. There should not be the slightest communal concern when a woman elects to destroy the life of her thousandth-of-an-ounce embryo. But all society should rise up in alarm when it hears that a baby that is not wanted is about to be born. ~Garrett Hardin
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| I use the term thin or heavier (not fat) for descriptive purposes only, NOT as a basis of who they are. If I said that healthy girl over there, no one would know exactly who I was talking about. Yes, when Barrel_Chaser stated "the skinny girl", it probably struck a nerve with those that were thinner. But is it really any different than stating she beat the redhead, brunette, or blond? We all have our pet peeves when it comes to the english language and how others approach it. My biggest concern, is those who are on the slender side were the ones to turn this into something it's not. Instead of a coming together of equine lovers with a common trait, we have to defend ourselves.
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[quote]allsmiles24/7 (10/29/2009)
I like being called skinny
I don't know anyone that would take offense to being called skinny, actually. I fail to see the offensiveness in that. Just saying.[/quote]
Because being skinny can be just as unhealthy as being obese.
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Ah. True.
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