How stunningly insulting. People don't even know when they are being mocked anymore - it's so discouraging to see. And the smiling "administrators" who not only impose this kind of cruelty, but force their victims to thanks them for it, are literally enemies of humanity.
Oh yeah, I go to far, right? That's why it's perfectly reasonable to expect men to be told to use "stick ponies" too, right? Just visualize that for a moment... And why, of all groups, young women are made to hop around with, for God's sake, a stick between their legs, and it's considered "reasonable."
Fifty years ago, the person who even suggested this "solution" would have had their teeth punched in by every father of every contestant.
Bah. Sometimes I feel that the war's already lost without a shot.
I don't think it was meant to be mocking. The sponsors just didn't want to cancel the event. They wanted to deliver the competition that they'd promised the girls.
The horse herpes thing is a real problem and has caused authorities to severely limit the movement of horses. What can ya do?