Current mood:	uncomfortable
Entry tags:	flounce, horses

Save a horse, whack a cowboy
Oh, ponies. Like so many girls who grew up in the city, I think ponies are ace. They can do anything and are awesome and some of them even talk in your head and make you all emo & special. I <3 (imaginary) ponies, for they are perfect.

As with all things awesome and squee worthy, there is a Live Journal community for squeeing! Over ponies! (But not imaginary ponies, real ponies, so these ponies do not give you magical Mary Sue powers, woe, so the community is actually more like "Let's talk about our horses and discuss things about horsemanship." I am very disappointed at the lack of "how to have sex on my emo magical pony" posts.) It's pretty-heavily female, as one would imagine, so when a Boy Pony Owner shows up, there's a bit of !!! Boy! going on.

Boy Pony Owner is Chuck McDonald, aka wildhorseblog, aka "I know everything because I am a boy, don't you know?" He first introduces himself to the comm in a wank-free post on March 18, which I am only mentioning because his inevitable [SPOILER!] FLOUNCE! occurs on March 21.[/SPOILER!]


Basically, Boy Pony Owner wants to use the comm for some self promotion of his own special way of making horses do things. I didn't follow it, but not everyone thinks that Boy Pony Owner's ideas are all that magical, interesting or new. So, when someone comes along, having trouble with her horse's loading and asks for advice, there isn't a squeeing acceptance of the awesomeness of everything Boy Pony Owner suggests.

Boy Pony Owner cannot sort out why folks might not be jumping on the Boy Pony Owner Is Awesome Bandwagon, so buymeaclue responds by very patiently, with reference to the rules of the comm explaining it to him.

So, of course: FLOUNCE!

If what I have to say is not appreciated, then I'll leave. In fact I think that's a good idea. I think that as a professional trainer, posting in an online forum opens me up to too much drama and it can get personal too easily. This won't help my career, so I'm going to bow out now.

Candidly, I think that part of the reason I'm getting resentment here is because I'm young and male. Some of you ladies don't want to hear advice from a man, particularly one who suggests you might have done something wrong. Even though, I haven't gone after anyone personally. I've only spoken out against stud chains, etc from my own personal experience and I stand by that.

Everything I've posted in this community has been done with unimpeachable class, courtesy and professionalism. If I'm going to catch hell because I'm presenting myself as knowledgeable, then I bid you all good day. At the end of the day, your opinions of me don't really matter anyway because when it comes to horses I get results. Particularly since none of ya'll are actually paying me.

I think Boy Pony Owner could have done better on the dismount, myself, but then, I think ponies should be silver with blue eyes and special angst-adding abilities.