Right now collected riders small in Skåne Falsterbo Falsterbo Horse Show. Ingrid Bosseldal thinking about riding – for the ideal body, the make fixation and whether they were male professional riders come from in a sport so dominated by women.
Ingrid Bosseldal is cultural writer and teacher and participates regularly in GC culture.
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The great summer destination of many Swedish riders – large and small – are Falsterbo Horse show going on July 4 to 12. Ingrid Bo sseldal , sitting in the stands from morning to evening and enjoy.
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Ingrid Bosseldal is a cultural writer and teacher and participates regularly in GC culture. Reviewed the latest Mikael Holmqvist book Djursholm. Sweden’s leadership community.
Search for “horse”. And another word. But not “a mistake”. Not “leg yielding.” Neither “saddle”. No, the one in the easiest possible way would find its way to various horse blogs should instead choose the word “outfit”.
When dropping the set, the hits … bloggers … riders who talk about everything from the “hunt for the perfect polo shirt” and “autumn outfit” to “last summer’s Championship outfit” and “dream-outfit”.
That’s far from the ideas of the stables that femininity free zone. The place where power, violence and responsibility go hand in hand with girl and women aspiring. Nursery for aspiring female executives and business leaders. In the blogosphere can be the perfect anridningen or walk pirouette replaced by the joy of a läskflaskas cork find a code by a young horsemen and blog star, in this particular case the phenomenon Nellie Berntsson, can result in a sharp premium – or as it is in blog: “Now, Coca-Cola, the world’s most glorious campaign. In summer you can collect codes you will find in the corks. The codes you can then use to pick out the cruel premiums from me and others. I have fixed some special premiums for you, including my book and my completely newly released games. “
In the days together The Swedish riders small, along with international stars and successful amateurs in Skåne Falsterbo. And if that was not known before, then drummed it into the TV series Riders Small this year: The great summer destination of many Swedish riders – large and small – the Falsterbo Horse Show.
There are riders in the middle stables, especially the smaller, longing there for all the good shopping. They collect money throughout the year and use the “horse festival” to buy even a saddle pad, a deluxe competition jacket or a second pair, especially awaited riding boots. In between, with precise discernment, they look at the races. That class. Or the rider.
I am sitting in the stands from morning to evening and enjoy. There is something about the horses and the people that I love. Here, as in the stall. The relations. The interaction. Reciprocity. The perfect anridningarna, courage facing a difficult obstacle, and the soft, smooth transitions. It may be of the young rising stars in the pony freestyle. It may be in the form of successful original that more than 70-year-old Ulla Håkansson in the highest dressage classes. And it can be personalized by the equally slender as extremely strong jump riders Malin Baryard Johnsson.
In the autumn hit new Gothenburg research down with an unwelcome crash in equestrianism. It was Carolina Lunde, doctor of psychology, who through his research project “GIRL: SCRIPTURES” (girls’ sportsmen, self-image and Body Image) found that girls in Equestrianism, contrary to what many want to believe, are more dissatisfied with their bodies and less interested in health and training issues than girls in other sports. Additionally experiencing ridtjejerna to look the press in Equestrianism is strong, as well as brand baiting.
The situation is not even as bad as in figure skating and gymnastics. Without worse.
When the radio sport in the same time reacted to the male dominance at the Equestrian World Championships in Caen – only men in the Swedish hoping the national team – said Maria Gretzer, self Olympic riders in show jumping, former national coach hoping the national team and nowadays radio sports commentator, she never felt that it was either an advantage or a disadvantage to be a girl in the Swedish equestrianism. In the Sydney Olympics, when she represented Sweden, was the only female rider in the team. So it becomes sometimes. Sometimes it can be the other way around, as in 2014. Not that men have some benefits, because they are men, but because it happened to be just these four men who “performed best and had the best results before these competitions”.
there are I have heard before. In many contexts. It can be about salary. If the representation on company boards. If fellows and national team riders. There are never any structures behind the pattern that repeats itself, at least not when people are in favor of equality (in principle) pronounce itself. Then the deviations from the ideal of equality is always rash to something as seemingly fair as performance. May the best man win.
At the same time was obvious that something happens in Equestrianism between the base, the second highest competition level and the ultimate elite. About 85 percent of all active riders in Sweden are girls. At the youth level is the predominance of women in Equestrianism obvious. So obvious that it is sometimes difficult to understand where the men of the national team at all coming from. If I look at the starting of the year Falsterbo Contests looks so far like the only girls in the four big pony classes, two guys of 17 starters in the young rider jumping on the big horse and four guys of 54 starters in the amateur class in show jumping.
That it with such a base at all possible to get as many male riders that they – especially in jumping – often in the majority, are difficult to understand. There are a Norwegian research has shown that perceptions of masculinity, for example, that men have better fighter and more reliable business partners, gives male riders better sponsorship and finer horses. It can be understood to be an explanation. But hardly the whole.
That is going on in the blogosphere, all those outfittarna, I sense that there is also something there. Something that adult returners in the stable, such as I, have become blind. But we – not least as we stand along the fences with other breathless pony mothers while our descendants in their stylish outfits rides for the new blue-yellow bows – probably should interest us more. For structures operating through people. But people can also change structures.
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