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The Benefits of Horseback Riding for Girls

Riding a horse demands that you be very in tune with your body. Many girls feel very like powerful and strong riding a horse. And if you're anorexical, you'll fall right off that horse. Right off that horse and get trampled. It's so satisfying to like knock all the dirt off and it doesn't hurt them because their hoofs don't have sensitivities like that. So clean. But it also, you know, bonding with a horse counteracts a lot of like cultural scripts that girls learn about how to exist in an embodied way. Like when you grow up as a girl, you're taught to basically want to be as frail and thin as

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